KONY 2012
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At the end of the day, the man is on the run in central africa, where no government has the resources or the inclination to arrest him, and where the rest of the world has no jurisdiction to do so. And whether people are watching or not counts for nothing. People watched a cried out during Rawanda, and nothing happened. Bob Geldof had his musical love ins for poverty, and nothing happened. GOVERNMENTS need to care, and without incentive to do so they wont.
Maybe if people actually watched the news instead of viral videos they would have known about this man years ago, when the US Govt pledged money and military support to fight him, or when the International Criminal Court made out a warrant for his arrest, or when Interpol red listed him.
Maybe if people actually watched the news instead of viral videos they would have known about this man years ago, when the US Govt pledged money and military support to fight him, or when the International Criminal Court made out a warrant for his arrest, or when Interpol red listed him.
giving money to africa charities aint gonna stop dude. on top of that, alot of these charities are crooked. you helpin cats that dont need the help, in the name of the peeps that need help. this Kony 2012 just seems to be more of an awareness campaign. your rant re: watching news vs viral videos is very true. and thats when campaigns like this would actualy help.
Watch the video. Then I wont have to enlighten you.
What does this have to do with what YOU said, and what I disputed? You're preaching to the choir here.
This is a whole other thread altogether...
Sometimes these viral videos are much more informative, thats the whole point.
And that obviously hasn't worked, has it? Do you know WHY the politiciatns said they would go over there in the first place? There is no incentive for them to be there...there are no natural resources the US was trying to take control of. There was nothing the US gave a shit about in Uganda. Dead babies? As long as they aint white dead babies, the US as a whole really couldn't care less. That was the point he was making in the first part of the video. Humans, for the most part, are "out of sight, out of mind" creatures; if it isnt happening on our doorstep, to our neighbor, to our family, to yourself...we really dont have that much compassion and urgency for it.
Why cant you do both? They are not mutually exclusive.
Buying into what, that there is a psychotic leader in Africa killing thousands of people, and creating de-humanized children?
What does this have to do with what YOU said, and what I disputed? You're preaching to the choir here.
This is a whole other thread altogether...
Sometimes these viral videos are much more informative, thats the whole point.
And that obviously hasn't worked, has it? Do you know WHY the politiciatns said they would go over there in the first place? There is no incentive for them to be there...there are no natural resources the US was trying to take control of. There was nothing the US gave a shit about in Uganda. Dead babies? As long as they aint white dead babies, the US as a whole really couldn't care less. That was the point he was making in the first part of the video. Humans, for the most part, are "out of sight, out of mind" creatures; if it isnt happening on our doorstep, to our neighbor, to our family, to yourself...we really dont have that much compassion and urgency for it.
Why cant you do both? They are not mutually exclusive.
Buying into what, that there is a psychotic leader in Africa killing thousands of people, and creating de-humanized children?
