The Nobel LIterature prize is now enmeshed in a sexual harassment scandal. It’s actually pretty nasty looking, especially given Sweden’s strenuous efforts to paint itself as gender-neutral to the point of androgyny.
And the Swedish Academy that issues the awards is worried (emphasis added):
“When an institution which selects Nobel laureates finds itself in this type of situation then it of course risks affecting the Nobel prize negatively,” Lars Heikensten, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, told the daily Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
Don’t worry, Nobel peeps. After Obama, Paul Krugman,Aung San Suu Kyi, the IPCC, Algore, Paul Krugman, Kofi Annan and Yassir Arafat, that boat has left the dock and cleared the lighthouse.
“After Obama, Paul Krugman,Aung San Suu Kyi, the IPCC, Algore, Paul Krugman, Kofi Annan and Yassir Arafat, that boat has left the dock and cleared the lighthouse.”
let me fix that for you:
“After Obama, Paul Krugman,Aung San Suu Kyi, the IPCC, Algore, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Yassir Arafat, that boat has left the dock and cleared the lighthouse.”
Don’t forget Rigoberta Menchu, who fabricated a lot of her story, too. Pretty sad to see what’s happened to Nobel’s dream, if ever it was significant. Here’s a link to the story now.
http://www.dw.com/en/nobel-literature-academy-cuts-ties-with-man-accused-of-sexual-assault/a-41524136
Ya’ know what’s funny, Mitch. What’s funny is that you want to blast them for awarding peace prizes to those who believe in treating everyone in the world fairly and being concerned with their plight and then in the next breath you’d berate them for their errors about protecting the rights of ALL. Your bitch about their recipients points out pretty clearly that you don’t believe in doing so but instead believe in unlawfully or immorally promoting the US’ interests over the interests/lives/rights of people of other countries. Pretty darned ironic. You don’t WANT them to promote concerns for ALL of the people of the world but will mock them if they fail in any small way when they try… it’s as if you are suggesting they shouldn’t try and instead we should accept brutality and inequality.
you want to blast them for awarding peace prizes to those who believe in treating everyone in the world fairly and being concerned with their plight
No, Pen. I blast them for awarding it to Yassir Arafat, Algore, Paul Krugman et al.
Your bitch about their recipients points out pretty clearly that you don’t believe in doing so but instead believe in unlawfully or immorally promoting the US’ interests over the interests/lives/rights of people of other countries
My post “points out” no such thing.
it’s as if you are suggesting they shouldn’t try and instead we should accept brutality and inequality.
No, it’s really not. Not in the least.
What I actually AM saying – take notes if you need to, Pen – is that the Nobel Committee has made a lot of risible awards in a lot of categories over the years. Saying that doesn’t mean I think the alternative is death, destruction, poverty and no literature.
Pen seems to think that all these Nobel prize winners won the Nobel Peace Prize, once again exposing his fathomless ignorance before the internet.
you want to blast them for awarding peace prizes to those who believe in treating everyone in the world fairly and being concerned with their plight
Yeah, that’s what I hear Israelis saying about Yasser Arafat all the time. And the Rohingya of Myanmar are saying the same thing about Suu Kyi, I’m sure. Moreover, I’m sure that the Syrians who got their towns bombed with chemical weapons after Obama failed to enforce his red lines believe the same about him, too. Same thing with the Arabs and minorities in Syria and Iraq who paid with their lives for Obama’s failure to deal with ISIS as anything but the “JV”.
Honestly, Pen, there is political bias, but you’re getting to the point where one has to wonder what color the sun is on your planet.
In my mind Bob Dylan was a worthy Nobel Laureate, but I think he accepted the prize reluctantly. He could have felt the prize was more a negative than something positive.
Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize in his Will, saying:
“The [interest on] my remaining realizable estate . . . shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows . . . one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction . . . .”
Nobel said nothing in his Will about treating people fairly or concern for their plight, Penigma. You invented those criteria, thus demonstrating once again that you are not a Strict Constructionist so you won’t follow the author’s Original Intent which is why you consistently reach the wrong conclusions.
Mitch is correctly dismissive of your irrelevant and groundless criticism.