Thursday, March 15, 2012
Two Red Flags for Invisible Children and Kony 2012
I know by now everyone and their grandmother have seen Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video and in case you still have not figured it out there are significant distortions of information in the video. First of all Kony and the LRA has not been in Uganda since 2006 and is suspected to be hiding in the Democratic Republic of Congo where they will occasionally attack a village. Secondly it is important to realise that the money raised by the Invisible Children will go to the Ugandan Military which cannot go after Kony in other countries, this is what we call an act of War, additionally the Ugandan Military is known to have committed numerous atrocities against civilians, not the kind of organization you want to be sending millions of dollars to. These reasons alone make the whole premise of the Kony 2012 movement Illogical as it supports sending money to a military force infamous for human rights violations in a futile effort to catch a criminal that is not even within there borders .
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Dylan, The videos that started surfacing earlier this year about this cause were certainly very disturbing. It’s amazing (and scary) how powerful visual/social media can be. It can be so persuading which is why it is so important to have organizations and people (such as you) to explore the reality of the facts that are being presented. Digging up the facts on this situation is not easy to do as there have been so many distortions of the truth published. How did you get interested in this issue? I found it a bit humorous (in your other post) how you equated Jacob Russell’s recent odd behavior to the recent strange antics of Charlie Sheehan. You’re off to a good start with your blog; I’m looking forward to returning soon to read (and learn) more! Mrs. A.
ReplyDeleteNice pick for a blog topic. I think everyone got swept up in the wave of KONY without doing any fact-checks. So many young people are easily persuaded if something looks legitimate, and fail to question it's actual legitimacy. While it's impressive that a message can travel so quickly across the nation, it's equally impressive (however in a bad way) that so many people buy into things without knowing what they really are.
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