Kony 2012 - what do you think?

[wolverine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

A display of the effective power of social media and human empowerment?
New way of justice for the 21st century?
Scam?
Next trendy thing for "professional activists"?

Discuss.

Be interesting to see what the foil hats and wingnuts on this board come up here! :nod:

 

[Miss*Bijou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

A display of the effective power of social media and human empowerment?
New way of justice for the 21st century?
Scam?
Next trendy thing for "professional activists"?

Discuss.

Be interesting to see what the foil hats and wingnuts on this board come up here! :nod:

I have mixed feelings about it but not totally sure what I think yet.

But these are some of the critics...



http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/20123845026717882.html


http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/kony2012-and-its-critics-0022087


http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts..._not_in_uganda_and_other_ complicated_things


http://chrisblattman.com/2009/03/04/visible-children/

 

[violetblake]

I feel that Kony should definitely be stopped, and I think the advantage to the word getting around is that if the government decides to withdraw help, there'll be quite a backlash, and it may help to keep up the pressure. However, I'm not sure that the Invisible Children organization is necessarily using funds as best as they could, so giving them money is maybe not the best idea. Plus, as great as it is to see people caring and wanting change, there's a lot of bad people and bad things going on in the world, and focusing on only one person for this entire year is a huge waste of time and resources. There's 7 billion people on earth, we can certainly focus on all the bad issues and bad people if we really care as much as people say they do. Also, we should absolutely help people in other countries, but let's not forget that we have a lot of problems right here in Canada. Again, we can multitask. It's not like it's one or the other, but sometimes people focus so much on other countries they forget that it's not all sunshine and lollipops for everyone in Canada.

 

[rampart]

Informative but someone is making a lot of money off of this.

I did a lot of research on this when it came up last week. While it is true that this guy is a criminal in the nth degree he is not the threat that he was 6 years ago. The people of Uganda are more stabilized now and by attracting huge attention to this criminal could make matters worse.

The people behind the Stop-Kony campaign have come up with an ingenious way to scam a lot of money off the low-informed people that sit on facebook. True, this will alert more people to the plight of some the bottom line is that laughter to the bank will be had.

Yes, war criminals around the world should be brought to trial and justice but not at the expense of the ill-informed.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

I did a lot of research on this when it came up last week. While it is true that this guy is a criminal in the nth degree he is not the threat that he was 6 years ago. The people of Uganda are more stabilized now and by attracting huge attention to this criminal could make matters worse.

The people behind the Stop-Kony campaign have come up with an ingenious way to scam a lot of money off the low-informed people that sit on facebook. True, this will alert more people to the plight of some the bottom line is that laughter to the bank will be had.

Yes, war criminals around the world should be brought to trial and justice but not at the expense of the ill-informed.

yep, it used to be the nigerian email scam, now it's the ugandan facebook scam - same shit, different pile...

follow the money...

 

[bug321]

I haven't seen this many white people interested in what's going on in Africa since Mufasa died.

 

[wolverine]

I don't really care about the Kony thing personally, but I am fascinated by how they're able to galvanize all these people to a cause via social media.

If only the same methods can be employed to get people involved in things much closer to home: voting in political elections, volunteering locally, etc.

 

[luvsdaty]

I don't really care about the Kony thing personally, but I am fascinated by how they're able to galvanize all these people to a cause via social media.

If only the same methods can be employed to get people involved in things much closer to home: voting in political elections, volunteering locally, etc.

+1, look after your own mess 1st:thumb:

 

[Robert Upndown]

Too little, too late and the charity, Invisible Children, that is behind this is questionable at best.

It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left abductions and mass murder in their wake for over 20 years. However

"Let's get two things straight:

1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for six years;

2) The LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.

Secondly

• The LRA is not in Uganda but now operates in the DRC, South Sudan and the Central African Republic

• In October last year, Obama authorised the deployment of 100 US army advisers to help the Ugandan military track down Kony, with no results disclosed to date.

• The LRA is much smaller than previously thought. It does not have have 30,000 or 60,000 child soldiers. The figure of 30,000 refers to the total number of children abducted by the LRA over nearly 30 years."

- Michael Wilkerson