Good People Day: a meme

[lokifan]

So Jay Smooth, who does this great hiphop radio show as well as awesome vlogs, did a thing called Good People Day a couple of years ago. Actually, his mate Gary Vaynerchuck did it, but it was Jay’s video I was rewatching yesterday.

And I saw the date! And I love the Good People Day idea - and even more so when it’s Jay’s Good In People Day variation - so I wanted to try it.

Good People are all around me; most notable right now are my fellow diacon_alley organisers, everyone prompting and replying and reading over at the Ron/Draco drabble-a-thon, and my friends here in Norwich.

But the Good in People Day concept as Jay applied it was about not only celebrating obviously good people - like the Japanese workers in the Fukushima nuclear plant, who are risking and likely sacrificing their lives to save others - but recognising the goodness in everyone, and recognising how connected we all are. He celebrated the goodness in George W Bush.

You know what? Let’s try this as a meme. Give me someone - anyone - and I will tell you the good I see in that person.

PS: No giving me Gaddafi. I don’t think it would be classy to be talking about his goodness while he murders his people.

Comments

[damerell]

This sounds like a vexing exercise. I daresay I can think of something good about - say - Bernard Manning, but I'd rather not have to.

ETA:

... oh, damn, actually, I have. Many of his racist jokes are quite funny if you tell them about goths / slashers / bellringers etc (some group you're actually a member of, anyway).

[lokifan_import]

Part of the thing, actually, is choosing stuff that makes people good morally, not good in the sense of doing something well.

So for Bernard Manning... um, he thinks he's fighting a good fight for the rights of overprivileged wankers everywhere?