KONY 2012
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- GeorgesII0
100NY 2012!!
- fuckGeorgesII
- MONO 2012goldieboy
- you want me gone?monospaced
- non0
This HAS to be the best marketing campaign in the history of social media. Fucking terrific.
- jagara0
Should I Donate Money to Kony 2012 or Not? http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/s…
- Horp0
The biggest tragedy of this, regardless of whether its 'right' or 'wrong' is that this 'exciting new world of global interconnectedness' has a drawback that equalises out its power.
35 million people engaged with this campaign last Thursday. That's the upside. That's a previously impossible reach.
Its Monday however, and this already feels like 'old news', and we're hungry for the next fuck up to go viral in an engaging way. Just to get us through this week with a little bit of distraction from the hum drum reality of middle class life in the west.
- maikel0
^ that - I can see more internet memes than action coming from the whole campaign.
- still something is something.
- sine0
- doktornomore0
I'm with Horp on this one - already seems like flavour of the month... I was kind of hoping they'd continue to drive this bus a just a little harder, so to speak: daily updates, current events - anything to keep the spin spinning and fully saturated. Regardless, this approach seems to be where we are headed for the foreseeable future; crowd sourced, flash mobbed, in-your-Facebook. Looking forward to seeing how it all plays out - the April date's success will tell the tale..
- zaq0
SONY2012
- sine0
i don't understand the mentality of "it's a good cause, just give them a dollar", without questioning who they're giving a dollar to and how it's gonna be used. and that seems to be most peoples response when shown the other side of the story...
- TheBlueOne0
This KONY thing is utter bullshit. Ego strokes for the hipster generation. It boils down asking a bunch of clueless hipster kids to get involved in a campaign to pressure US politicians to support a policy of utilizing more military resources in the developing world and a chance to use lasers and NAVY Seals against "bad" dark people. It's not like these asshats need encouragement to do that, but there it is.
Africa is fine and can handle it's own problems. If you want to help Africa, invest some money in some African businesses, or go visit it or something. Sending money to some hipster douche with a copy of iMovie for a cause years past it's sell date is fucking stupid.
"To hate injustice and stand on righteousness is a difficult thing. Furthermore, to think that being righteous is the best one can do and to do one’s utmost to be righteous will, on the contrary, brig many mistakes. The Way is in a higher place then righteousness. This is very difficult to discover, but it is the highest wisdom. When seen from this standpoint, things like righteousness are rather shallow. If one does not understand this on his own, it cannot be known."
- randommail0
America and probably Britain as well, need an excuse to invade Uganda to control the mineral assets, specifically oil. Joseph Kony will be the new ‘devil’ (see Saddam and Gaddafi) and western troops will have to invade to remove Kony from Uganda . At the same time, they will take control of the mineral assets and place their puppets in control of Uganda.
The main politician in the video who advocates the removal of Kony is Republican Senator Jim Inhofe and guess who have been his major source of funds for the 2008 and 2010 re-election campaign. From his Wikipedia page :
Fundraising
In the 2008 election cycle, Inhofe’s largest campaign donors represented the oil and gas ($446,900 in donations), leadership PACs ($316,720) and electric utilities ($221,654) industries/categories . In 2010, his largest donors represented the oil and gas ($429,950) and electric utilities ($206,654).The video is an attempt to manipulate public opinion into ‘something must be done’ with the ‘won’t anybody think of the children’ emphasis and that ‘something must be done’ will probably involve sending troops into Uganda. But why all of a sudden is America concerned with the children of Africa? It never has before.
I must stress Kony is a nasty piece of work and Uganda would be a better place if he was gone but experience shows when you send in the troops, it only serves to make a bad situation worse.At best “Invisible Children” are useful idiots. They are being played like a violin and I can see in my mind’s eye in six months time, President Obama wiping away the tears thinking of the children, as he announces he will have to send more troops into Uganda and at the same time, the stocks of the concerned oil companies rocket skywards.
(not my writing, but I couldn't agree more)
- cool story brohsine
- yeah America needs minerals for its IphonesThecreativeone
- aanderton0
What this needs is for Kony to die of natural causes in the next few days. Would be interesting to see what would happen to entire campaign.
- GeorgesII0
@ CALLES
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Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012
The video qualifies as irresponsible advocacy by prompting militarisation and detracting from Uganda's real problems.--
Kampala, Uganda - From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria was easy to miss. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I don't watch YouTube and the Ugandan papers didn't pick up the story for several days. But what I could not avoid were the hundreds of emails from friends, colleagues, and students in the US about the video by Invisible Children and the massive online response to it.
I have not watched the video. As someone who has worked in northern Uganda and researched the war there for more than a decade, much of it with a local human rights organisation based in Gulu, the Invisible Children organisation and their videos have often left me infuriated - I remember the sleepless nights after I watched their "Rough Cut" film for the first time with a group of students, after which I tried to explain to the audience what was wrong with the film while on stage with one of the filmmakers.
My frustration with the group has largely reflected the concerns expressed so convincingly by those online critics who have been willing to bring the fury of Invisible Children's true believers down upon themselves in order to point out what is wrong with this group's approach: the warmongering, the narcissism, the commercialisation, the reductive and one-sided story they tell, their portrayal of Africans as helpless children in need of rescue by white Americans.
As a result of Invisible Children's irresponsible advocacy, civilians in Uganda and central Africa may have to pay a steep price in their own lives so that a lot of young Americans can feel good about themselves, and a few can make good money. This, of course, is sickening, and I think that Kony 2012 is a case of Invisible Children having finally gone too far. They are now facing a backlash from people of conscience who refuse to abandon their capacity to think for themselves.