KONY 2012

[Bluezone777]

Ah okay, thanks....Who is Joseph Kony? I'll look him up 😛

He's the future republican nominee for 2016, it was a tough decision but the republican party decided that they needed to find someone less evil than their current picks. Palin will run as vice president under him, seems like it'll be a rousing success.

lol this post made my day. Thanks for posting it. XD

As for this whole Kony 2012 thing, I have heard quite a bit about this charity and its less then reputable financial situation involving where the money goes. People really need to be educated about the charity before opening up their wallets to these types. Why they felt the need to make it look like a campaign for congress/president is beyond me. Perhaps they did it to get people looking at the candidates running for office to click it?

 

[Justin]

Yes obviously he has been around for a while, but while the opportunity is here we mind as well spread the word so everyone can know about the issue. I never knew his specific name until recently, but I knew this was going on.

Where were the do-gooders 8 years ago? 😛

 

[Gimgak]

White man's burden... ah, how history repeats itself.

In no way am I saying this is a bad cause; some aspects of this campaign leave me a bit hesitant to full out support it.

 

[Ghost]

The video's purpose was to spread word about Kony and the issues in Uganda. The video was not made to make tons of money and send it all into Uganda. It did EXACTLY what it set out to do. With millions of views, shares and people caring about it, it was a huge success.

 

[Justin]

I won't donate money to it, but I'll click the tweet button on the video

 

[Faker]

these are the worst kind of people.. Kony is one of the most dangerous people more countries should get involved to end this rebel group

 

[Medora]

For readers of this topic unaware, and lazy to find out: As I learned from the newscasters for Deutsche Welle Journal, an international news agency based in Germany, Kony 2012 is a documentary by American film makers that reveals the atrocities committed by the tyrant Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, a group which recruits mainly youths. The LRA systematically employs rape and murder as terror tactics against thousands of rural dwellers. The documentary was posted on Monday and quickly became viral.

Of course, as the International Criminal Court points out, there have been several Ugandan leaders committing war crimes for decades. And for that matter there are plenty of war criminals throughout Africa and throughout the world. As an example, president Mugabe of Zimbabwe ran a middle income country into the ground in the last few years, which included bulldozing entire districts that opposed him, and a documentary came out last month showing that in 2008 he mowed down civilians to secure diamond fields.

 

[WUEddy12]

Head that it's a corrupt charity company.
Don't know what to think, though.

 

[Nitro]

Screening of Kony 2012 in Northern Uganda results in Anger

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News article: http://blogs.aljazeera.com/africa/2012/ ... kony-video

Excerpt from the article:

Towards the end of the film, the mood turned more to anger at what many people saw as a foreign, inaccurate account that belittled and commercialised their suffering, as the film promotes Kony bracelets and other fundraising merchandise, with the aim of making Kony infamous.

One woman I spoke to made the comparison of selling Osama Bin Laden paraphernalia post 9/11 – likely to be highly offensive to many Americans, however well intentioned the campaign behind it.

 

[Medora]

Head that it's a corrupt charity company.
Don't know what to think, though.

There is an article by international relations student Mark Kersten that deftly sums up this matter: "Too simple, too dumb." Among the criticisms lobbed at the charity is its oversimplification of the matter, the immediate harm it may ironically be causing, encouragement of the adoption of superficial policy by government and other groups in place of more substantive action, and propagation of the "White Man's Burden" mentality.

 

[Medora]

Re: Screening of Kony 2012 in Northern Uganda results in Ang

Wait, is the article suggesting that actual Ugandans may take issue with the framing that a filmmaker from the States gave for their suffering? Imagine! It is not like those of us from the developed world routinely frame the sufferings of the developing world through our perspectives at the expense of theirs. Or was it that we do?

Sarcasm aside, I remember what the American film critic Roger Ebert said on 24 January this year:

• “One of the ancient ploys of the film industry is to make a film about non-white people and find a way, however convoluted, to tell it from the point of view of a white character.”

 

[Deleted member 1609]

I've merged the new topic into the other one. I think it's more organized this way. 🙂