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The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

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Great selection, Malala Yousafzai simply amazes me that a young woman from such a background as hers has such drive and is willing to go up against the odds she does.

Honestly I had to look up Kailash Satyarthi, his efforts to free children from slavery or what is effectively slavery is certainly notable. It takes a lot to change culture its so interesting we have people at opposite ends of their lives working on similar goals

I was not familiar with Satyarthi but it seems totally deserved. On the other hand, I was always having an issue with Malala being nominated. She's the mainstream winner, that's clear, there's plenty of media attention but could anyone explain to me what are her tangible achievements for human rights?

I wonder how many news articles will report on the fact she is a committed socialist:

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.[1]

[1] - http://www.marxist.com/historic-32nd-congress-of-pakistani-i...

and? can you explain me what is the issue with being a "socialist" ?

I don't think the parent comment was saying there was a problem per se with her being an outspoken socialist. But it's easy to imagine media leaning towards the conservative will choose to completely ignore that fact.

> But it's easy to imagine media leaning towards the conservative will choose to completely ignore that fact.

It makes little sense.Conservative media didnt stop labelling Obama as "socialist"(which he clearly is not * ) even after he got his prize.

*: I cant think of one thing he did that was "socialist", even the mandate thing was designed by conservative think tanks,hmm... yes perhaps the bailout,that definetly was "socialist",but it's not like the Bush administration didnt bail out banks either.

Obama didn't announce himself as "a committed socialist", and the 'conservative media' that would denounce Obama as a socialist and the 'conservative media' that would consider socialism negative are two (but not mutually exclusive) things.

Most of the worlds' conservative media would react poorly to socialism due to the stigmas its' history has created, whereas American 'conservative media' would be more interested in painting its' leader in some specific way.

Neither has anything to do with socialism being implacably good or bad, or the article at hand.

What's your point?

Youngest winner ever. Some see awarding young people as risky because you never know what they will be up for in the years to come. But although she has most of her life ahead of her I bet she won't fight as many wars as the guy who won back in 2009.

If I remember correctly, part of the original hope was that it would go to younger people (as opposed to being the climax of a lifetime of achievement), so that the award could be used to continue their work. That's part of the reason why it can't be awarded posthumously - the deceased are known for being unproductive.

So Putin didn't get one?

May I learn what it has to do with HN?

Nothing. It's off-topic in that it's mainstream news, and somewhat political.

Perhaps most of us are interested in it (I am), and happy with the winners, but that doesn't mean it belongs here.

It's interesting for geeks, as were the rest of the Nobel Prize announcements these past few days. Also, I assume many of us were (over-optimistically) hoping it would be Snowden.

or NSA? sarcasm

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