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OH MY GOD I AM LOLING SO HARD

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omgtoohilarious:

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AINT THIS THE TRUTH!

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djbez:

KONY | a social debate

Be honest with yourself. After watching a 30 minute hollywood styled documentary, were you compelled so emotional that you wanted to help? Of course you were, in which I among millions can agree of a humanistic value.

Now that we have “honesty” in play, ask yourself when you started to feel that way in the video. Was it after you saw our societies’ famous faces were mentioned to lead the campaign? Don’t be offended when I say you have now joined a bandwagon.

I understand most people will scrutinize me for this entire post. I can accept that, but honestly I’m on your side. I want justice, peace, and all things good. Do not attack me because I took the extra time to think and research beyond a 30 minute subjective film.

So What Is Going On?

The video is a call for action from the Invisible Children to capture the leader of the Lord’s Reistance Army; Joseph Kony. By doing so the first action is to exemplify famous faces culturally & politically, in order to solicit awareness to the people who Joseph Kony is. The awareness indirectly asks our community to wear bracelets, purchase an Action Kit (full of propaganda), and spread the word.

My reaction:

Initially I thought the movie was an amazing idea. Great use of communication and such a captivating story. I want to be in good “karma” like most people, do good deeds; join this activism for mankind.

Just like the movie stated in the beginning. People have the need to feel a part of something bigger than themselves. Guess what… it successfully just sold millions of you to do so.

Without any further research, millions of dollars have been donated to receive these Action-Kits. With these kits you are now in a cult-like activist group spreading the word to be a part of something that asks for a good intention; justice. The intention is great. I can agree with why you feel the way you do and how easily it is to empathize enough to purchase these kits. 

However, I did not join the bandwagon; at least not yet.

ALL I’M SAYING IS….

Don’t be so quick to throw money around and pride yourself on social networks. Do some research please.

- Ask yourself why hasn’t America done anything to a man who has been on the top of the most wanted list for over thirty years of injustice acts. Such list includes suppressors such as Bin Laden, Mummar Gaddafi, and Saddam Hussein. 

- We easily attach ourselves to GOOD GUY-BAD GUY routines, so it’s easy to say where you want to put your money. Ask yourself how long do you really think it would take to find a terroristic man, how long do you think they will tell you until they actually find him… and lastly how much money do you think was actually spent from your donations.

- War, fear, and choosing sides. Creates a revenue. Take the extra time to think about who this money goes to.

Articles to read:

Misleading information from Invisible Children: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-deibert/joseph-kony-2012-children_b_1327417.html

In-depth explainations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/08/kony-2012-what-s-the-story

Lastly,

I’m not the bad guy nor do I support terror. If you think by bashing me because I brought extra details to consider, you fail to understand the point of this post.

2 months ago  /  3 notes  /  Source: djbez

thedailywhat:

On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:

Stop sending me that video.

The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ”misleading,” “naive,” and “dangerous” by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of “manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.” They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau’s standards.

Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won’t let their financials be independently audited. That’s not a good thing. In fact, it’s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you’re sending them is going.

By IC’s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can’t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they’ve ever known.

And as far as what they do with that money:

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Let’s not get our lines crossed: The Lord’s Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda’s decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.

The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it’s likely he will soon be caught, if he isn’t already dead. But killing Kony won’t fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn’t end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is “a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.”

Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa’s woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.

Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the region’s medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.

Here are just a few of those charities. They all have a sparkling four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and, more importantly, no interest in airdropping American troops armed to the teeth into the middle of a multi-nation tribal war to help one madman catch another.

The bottom line is, research your causes thoroughly. Don’t just forward a random video to a stranger because a mass murderer makes a five-year-old “sad.” Learn a little bit about the complexities of the region’s ongoing strife before advocating for direct military intervention.

There is no black and white in the world. And going about solving important problems like there is just serves to make all those equally troubling shades of gray invisible.

[kony2012.]

There’s always multiple sides to a story. Here’s another POV that’ll get you thinking as well: http://ilto.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-visible-problem-with-invisible-children/

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