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Kony

The Central Scrutinizer said:
It's so slacktivists can feel good about themselves for posting it on their Facebook wall. So when they all meet at the local fair-trade coffee co-op, they can pat each other on the back over how they made a difference in the world.
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Ooohhh, I needed somebody to be mad at!
Those slacktivists!....and their coffee.... gggggrrrrrrrr
 
Kony himself is pretty old news. But the Kony2012 thing seemed to hit my radar and go from 0 to WTF almost instantly. This BoingBoing post made my head spin. Invisible Children's Jason Russell not only seems like some kind of whackadoodle, but it looks like he's been doing his schtick for several years now. Just bizarre.
 
shecky said:
Invisible Children's Jason Russell not only seems like some kind of whackadoodle, but it looks like he's been doing his schtick for several years now. Just bizarre.
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Huh? What's bizarre? What am I missing here?
 
What happens when you show the video to Ugandans?

Critics argue that the film relies on footage nearly ten-years-old of children fleeing the LRA in northern Uganda, implying the situation remains the same to this day, and so failing to represent the real issues now facing post-conflict Northern Uganda.

The LRA now operates in the Central African Rrepublic, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and is now thought to number no more than 300 fighters.

Invisible Children argue that they have the main facts correct, and that raising awareness is their primary goal, and a necessary step towards any further change.

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People I spoke to anticipated seeing a video that showed the world the terrible atrocities that they had suffered during the conflict, and the ongoing struggles they still face trying to rebuild their lives after two lost decades.

The audience was at first puzzled to see the narrative lead by an American man – Jason Russell – and his young son.

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.

The event ended with the angrier members of the audience throwing rocks and shouting abusive criticism, as the rest fled for safety, leaving an abandoned projector, with organisers and the press running for cover until the dust settled.
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Linky.

And I've heard interesting tales about their finances:

What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools — or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an “avenger of blood” and a “terrorist”, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?
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Linky.

It sounds like a classic panhandler scheme. Bring up an emotional topic and ask for money. People don't bother looking into it.
 
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What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools — or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an “avenger of blood” and a “terrorist”, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?
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I think that's the longest single interrogative statement I've ever read.
 
Wildy said:
Well if Butt Naked is true to his opinions (although the Fail might have just made that up) all you'd have to do is say "we're charging you with war crimes" and he'd say "ok, let's go".
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Butt Naked made them up more than the mail. He's one of these preachers who's big draw is that he's a reformed whatever (ganster, drug dealer, war criminal, lawyer, it depends on the local circumstances). In order to play that role well he has to play the the magnititude of whatever he did.
 
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