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[quote name='James' timestamp='1331108172' post='96649'] I would love to see Kony arrested or dead, don't really have a preference. That said, I have a few issues with this campaign. I would bet the vast majority of youth who attempt to remain up to date on current events have come across some kind of literature on the L.R.A. and the issues of central Africa in the last five or six years, even if they don't remember it. Newspapers, magazines, blogs, online news sources, books, journal articles, etc. have been covering these conflicts for a while now, even if they aren't front page material. There are three differences I can see between the previous literature and filmography on the L.R.A. and this Kony 2012 campaign: First is the 'what if this was happening in [i]America[/i] to [i]white[/i] kids' argument. I don't think I need to say much about this other than it's depressing that people still need to approach issues like this from a racial perspective to appreciate their severity. If you have a problem caring about a person because they're black and in Africa you ought to reevaluate your capacity for empathy. Second, youth reliance on hot media as their medium of information necessitated a video with high production quality and a flashy narrative to spark any mainstream interest. It's increasingly difficult to capture the imaginations of young people, therefore it took a highly engaging, factually sparse video like this to rouse interest in Kony. Where would the mainstream Darfur movement have been without George Clooney or Brad Pitt? Kids can't read a newspaper anymore, it's got to be spoon fed to them before they can collect and retain information. This leaves them with very little understanding of the actual facts surrounding the situation. What's the political situation in Uganda, the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Chad, or the Central African Republic? Who is arming the L.R.A.? What are other countries in the region doing to fend off the rebels? None of this is covered in the video. Nobody seems to be asking. Finally, and in my main problem with this video, is the shameless self promotion by the charity (company?) that made it. They actually tell you at the end that the best way to stop a war is to [i]buy a box set[/i] filled with standardized posters and other goods designed and produced by the organization. You watch what you think is a 30 minute call to arms only to realize at the end that you were sitting through an infomercial. Now they're having a worldwide protest on April 20th where everyone is going to put up exactly the same posters all over the place. Rather than an organic movement we have a fabricated protest where everyone is expected to wear the same t-shirts and march like they're in an army. They've somehow managed to commercialize an African civil war and market it to white people. That's almost as depressing as the war itself. Also one of their posters has Kony in the foreground in front of Osama and Hitler. lol [/quote]

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EatShitAndCry

Posted 10 April 2012 - 06:27 AM

All Dead, on 18 March 2012 - 10:14 AM, said:

http://www.guardian....aigner-detained

I know I'm late, but here's my story with this:
I was at a show with a few friends, but we were on our way back. We packed into a crowded train while one of my friends read her phone. Suddenly she almost screamed "The guy behind Kony 2012 got arrested for violently masturbating in public!" and the ent...

Man

Posted 07 April 2012 - 08:07 AM

I think you are right. I heard something about 2.5 billion barrel oil. Only one third of the money actually goes to Uganda. And there is a lot more issues with this campaign. Maybe it is real, but is it a coincidence that it became that big just now?
I don't like the video even if it was honest. I don't like the whole idea. It this "white man's burden" stuff. We aren't supposed to clean up there. Helping yes, but not by taking control. And this is what happens if the campaign is successful and America sends troops.
Additionally, i don't think Kony is the problem. He is not the next Hitler. It is not like killing him and then we have world peace. Killing him would mean that someone else becomes leader of the LRA.
The other thing is: fighting against Kony means fighting against an army of child soldiers. And we all know how the U.S. Army operates. The stories from the latest wars are horrible enough. This can't be the solution.

Posted 26 March 2012 - 04:06 PM

Okay, so after i watched the video, i was touched by it and almost started to cry. Then i made some of my own research, instead of going from the information that i got from that video. I found out that there was a very big amount of oil found in Uganda, just like in Vietnam before that war and The U.S.A said to send ''American Advisors'' to Vietnam, however that's what they are saying abouth this movement, to send ''Advisors'' to Uganda.
Now i find it pretty odd that they are saying that same thing before they are sending troops there. It's just another way for them to say ''Hey! Let's invade Uganda for the oil!'' But, they can't say it like that becouse, yeah, it would just sound fucked up.
Kony 2012 can still be real but it's also very weird (from what i've heard) that Joseph Kony was either dead or left Uganda in 2006. So what is the only reason to go there if Kony is gone? Oh yeah, the o...

All Dead

Posted 18 March 2012 - 02:41 PM

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Sammysaint

Posted 18 March 2012 - 02:12 PM

That was honestly such hilarious news, the video was also fantastic - like a hairless gorilla in the street

All Dead

Posted 18 March 2012 - 10:14 AM

http://www.guardian....aigner-detained

Midnight Strike

Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:41 PM

After reading that blog, and watching the ugandan woman's response... it really seems like this organization (?) doesn't really know what it's doing, and it's just an excuse to move a bunch of money. I could be wrong, yeah, but that's what it seems like.
The Kony 2012 video is kind of a shocker, when the kid Jacob was talking about how he'd rather being dead, I literally cried, I thought it was a good cause and everything, but then it was just mere advertising, "buy our shirts, buy our posters, magically save the world"
Also, maybe it's just me, but I don't think a kid that young should be explained that kinda stuff... you can't tell him the whole thing [about rape and murder], but you can't really let him with just half the info... that kid seemed to small to care about the big problems of the world, I think you should let kids live their childhood

Goatseboy

Posted 12 March 2012 - 06:05 PM

I know it sounds awful, but isn't that what the Kony 2012 mindset is? The mainstream consciousness propelled onwards by paltry endorsements from big social media users?

Punk Rock Geek

Posted 12 March 2012 - 05:52 PM

Goatseboy, on 12 March 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

It'd be awesome if celebrities endorsed things like anarchism and socialism, or is that a long shot?

How big of celebrities?

Goatseboy

Posted 12 March 2012 - 05:25 PM

It'd be awesome if celebrities endorsed things like anarchism and socialism, or is that a long shot?

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