Ten years ago today, then-First Lady Michelle Obama posted a sad photo on social media that seemed to launch the greatest decade of faux-compassionate virtue signaling.
On May 7, 2014, Obama shared a photograph from an enormous, ornate room, holding a sign that read #BringBackOurGirls under the caption, “Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo.” She was referring to the Chibok school kidnapping, where the Boko Haram terror group abducted 276 students from a girls school.
From this post alone, one might assume Obama and her husband, former President Barack Obama, were actively working on a solution to get the girls home. And that solution was dependent on the American population sharing similar posts on social media, as if members of Boko Haram would see how sad their actions were making us and stop being hideous monsters. Obama also wanted you to think she cared…
