• Check out the relaunch of our general collection, with classic designs and new ones by our very own Pissog!

KONY 2012

Status
Not open for further replies.
I just finished watching this on Facebook. I realized how unLatino I am. I should be into politics and not nerdy shit like science!
 
I'm down for the cause and all but can we get past the "spread awareness" part of things and instead of "just watch the video guys" push people to do things. Throw a quick donation or get the bracelet or something people.

I just wanna leave a link to this, I guess. I'm not saying this is reason to disregard the whole campaign but I just wanna make sure people know, in case they like to only trust a certain standard of charities.
 
there are more important issues than this, really can't believe how the media has blown up this seven-year-old problem so much (yea this nigga been taking kids for ages, there was a movie back in 2005 about it but i guess nobody watched it since twitter and facebook didn't exist in 2005)
 
Thorns said:
there are more important issues than this, really can't believe how the media has blown up this seven-year-old problem so much (yea this nigga been taking kids for ages, there was a movie back in 2005 about it but i guess nobody watched it since twitter and facebook didn't exist in 2005)
Click to expand...

So... There's more important issues than children being kidnapped from their homes, and forced to kill or be a sex slave? Huh.
 
You all beat me to it. I just found out about this a little while ago from PhillyD. I gotta say alot of people are doing this today and I certainly like it. We gotta do something about this disgusting excuse of filth that kidnaps children..... no that kidnaps our future. If we don't stop this guy, what will we be to our next generation and even beyond that? What would we be if we looked in the mirror in the future and this guy has kept on living doing what he does? I'd certainly feel some sense of shame for my species that this guy has lived for so long and will continue to do these terrible things.

Btw the video is to long. I mean yes I watched it but I feel it would be better if you explained some of the things in the op that this guy has done.

War Criminal #1 for a reason people. KONY 2012! LEZ TAKE THIS BASTARD DOWN!

@Son_Of_Shadoo

It would seem so to america because they only recently started acting on this and only after nearly 1million people had an interest in this in the first place. It's alot like the world wars in america. It wasn't America's problem and only when they were forced into the conflict did they act. Just like this time. 1million people had to react to this issue to get America even slightly involved.
 
I have a large number of problems with this. A lot of which are in regards to the NGO itself. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with war criminals, child soldiers, or any of the type of brutality this Joseph Kony is committing. It's just that something like this is very rarely so black and white, and Im shocked at how many people are just advocating this because its the thing everyone is doing.
I can't be bothered to summarize it, but I suggest you do some further reading before you jump on board, or fall for this piece of emotion-porn that IC call a "Documentary":

http://ilto.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-visible-problem-with-invisible-children/
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ql4oi/kony_2012/c3yin0k
 
can someone please tell me why everyone suddenly feels the need to take action against kony right now? all my friends all over twitter and facebook have been posting like nine million kony-related things, but seriously i dont know why theyre getting so fired up right now.

i mean, kony has been doing this for like 20 years sooooo....
 
ya but the point is not many people knew about it until now...

not sure how everyone can find a negative way to look at something like this.
 
Son_of_Shadoo said:
So... There's more important issues than children being kidnapped from their homes, and forced to kill or be a sex slave? Huh.
Click to expand...

This is so incredibly short sighted that I can't even begin to describe it.

Why do you feel some sort of "amplification of morality" when it involves children?

Look, here's the fact. The affected group represents such an incredibly small percentage of world population. This is in no way to say that this isn't gruesome. But for it to explode like this over social media is redundant.... Awareness can only do so much.

This type of event represents the good and the bad with social networking. The good is just how quickly people can become informed. Look at what happened just last night. The bad? How people can be fed information without really understanding it, just blindly following.

Once this issue dies down, people won't go on to be any more active about world events, but will instead just going to ignore the real problems of the world, the problems that affect more that ~10000 people.
 
bottom line is people are slightly ignorant and like to follow the 'trend' on what's happening around on the internet. Seriously if people are only sharing this only now even though the campaign/documentary started back in '05..I mean you can try use the 'internet wasn't popular almost a decade ago' as an excuse to the fact people are recognising this now but people have been dying for ages and nobody has done anything about it.
 
popemobile said:
my little kony

genocide is tragic
Click to expand...
ahahahahaha
Snorlaxe said:
can someone please tell me why everyone suddenly feels the need to take action against kony right now? all my friends all over twitter and facebook have been posting like nine million kony-related things, but seriously i dont know why theyre getting so fired up right now.

i mean, kony has been doing this for like 20 years sooooo....
Click to expand...

nobody knew about him everybody heard about him on facebook than shared because that's what they could do to help the people who're hurting without taking any time out of their day



66 thousand children (or 30 k if you go by the video..) is a pretty big number but I'm pretty sure their are bigger problems in the world atm. Like the famine in the horn of africa and other stuff
genocide 'n shit you know?
what ever happened to the Darfur genocide?
 
Renosaur said:
bottom line is people are slightly ignorant and like to follow the 'trend' on what's happening around on the internet. Seriously if people are only sharing this only now even though the campaign/documentary started back in '05..I mean you can try use the 'internet wasn't popular almost a decade ago' as an excuse to the fact people are recognising this now but people have been dying for ages and nobody has done anything about it.
Click to expand...

What an obnoxiously hipster attitude. There are finally enough people doing something about this to maybe have an impact and you dismiss it because it is 'trendy'? You are coming up with excuses for being apathetic about this, would it it kill anyone here to take 5 minutes out of their day to do the absolute least they can to help?

Spreading the video, donating, or even participating in April does not in any way exclude anyone from also caring about the world's many other problems. The internet is shaping out to be a powerful activist tool and things like Stop SOPA, the 99%, and the Invisible Children help all causes by proving that organization on this scale can be done, that people can be heard. By all means start your own movement if something is more important to you.

They mention in the video that the LRA has since moved out of Uganda. You might actually benefit from watching it before parroting that fact as if it meant that the issue was resolved.
 
they did a story about this back in x-men a few years ago. Storm electrocuted the shit out of them. i assumed that settled it.
 
VirtualKaraokeCircusAct said:
66 thousand children (or 30 k if you go by the video..) is a pretty big number but I'm pretty sure their are bigger problems in the world atm. Like the famine in the horn of africa and other stuff
genocide 'n shit you know?
what ever happened to the Darfur genocide?
Click to expand...

or the 60 thousand kids that starve to death every day
 
VirtualKaraokeCircusAct said:
66 thousand children (or 30 k if you go by the video..) is a pretty big number but I'm pretty sure their are bigger problems in the world atm. Like the famine in the horn of africa and other stuff
genocide 'n shit you know?
what ever happened to the Darfur genocide?
Click to expand...
As much as I agree that other tragedies should receive more help than isolated occurrences like this one purely on the number of lives at stake, it's a lot easier to stir up publicity for an "unusual" tragedy rather than oh booooooooooring people in Africa are starving. See

Scarfwynaut said:
Why don't we just declare war on the mother fucker. I mean seriously.
Click to expand...

as an illustration of my point.

Xaqwais said:
I'm down for the cause and all but can we get past the "spread awareness" part of things and instead of "just watch the video guys" push people to do things. Throw a quick donation or get the bracelet or something people.
Click to expand...

THIS
People think that raising awareness magically does something. It doesn't. It does what it says: raises awareness in the hope that people will take more action. Unfortunately, people think that raising awareness=taking action now.
 
to everyone saying "so what? this is just one thing that has been going on for ages. a) there are other problems and b) why do people care now?"

that's the point

we know about it now, so we care about it now

sure there are tons of other problems, but that doesn't make this one any less worthy, and the awareness-spreading for this one is mobilising in a really effective way

taking hold of the celebrity machine is such a simple but ingenious thing, i'm really really impressed by this

let's get it
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top