Kony 2012 movement

[revhiphop]

I'd like to hear revleft's opinion on Kony 2012. I'm supportive of it but it disappoints me that it takes this long for mass amounts of people bring up issues like this. Personally, I think he should be executed, but Western presence may fuck up the region. Anyway, fuck Joseph Kony.

[kevster03]

some context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

[gorillafuck]

there is already a thread on it

http://www.revleft.com/vb/joseph-kony-2012-t168740/index.html?t=168740

[Ocean Seal]

I'd like to hear revleft's opinion on Kony 2012. I'm supportive of it but it disappoints me that it takes this long for mass amounts of people bring up issues like this. Personally, I think he should be executed, but Western presence may fuck up the region. Anyway, fuck Joseph Kony.
Yes fuck Joseph Kony but the western presence in the area, if it comes would fuck up the area. The west within a couple of months could kill more people than Joseph Kony and his band of theocrats could in their lifetimes.

The important thing about Joseph Kony is that the liberals have found a new fetish object. So they'll complain about him, just like they did Darfur, and of course they won't do anything of use as usual. Just let them go through their phase.

[gorillafuck]

The important thing about Joseph Kony is that the liberals have found a new fetish object. So they'll complain about him, just like they did Darfur, and of course they won't do anything of use as usual. Just let them go through their phase.what would be "of use"?

[Ocean Seal]

what would be "of use"?
In theory they could stand in solidarity with the people of Uganda, get over there and organize communities against Kony, hold talks on tolerance in rural Uganda, organize the working class and lead a global socialist revolution, the usual.

But instead they'll spend millions making blockbuster documentaries, giving each other oscars, and masturbating to imperialist propaganda, all the while selling the world the "primitive third world" worldview.

[gorillafuck]

In theory they could stand in solidarity with the people of Uganda, get over there and organize communities against Kony,what?


hold talks on tolerance in rural Uganda,what?!


organize the working class and lead a global socialist revolution, the usual.in Uganda?

[Jack]

Oh god.


The LRA conflict has been going on for 25 years, and is basically over (most LRA forces were defeated in 2009, the rest are just remnants), child soldiers and refugees are nothing new, just are now a fad for people to post about on their Facebook walls trying to look enlightened.



In theory they could stand in solidarity with the people of Uganda, get over there and organize communities against Kony, hold talks on tolerance in rural Uganda, organize the working class and lead a global socialist revolution, the usual.

Typical uneducated, Western response. Kony is one person who's been on the run from the Ugandan government for 25 years, do you think the people of Uganda are just too stupid to "organize communities against Kony" or that they need some white liberal to come over and teach them about "tolerance"? Most people in Uganda are opposed to the LRA as it is, but there's not much they can do when they're unarmed and unorganized, stop being chauvinist.

[Luc]

Aparanetly Kony 2012 is bullshit:

ignore the site the link is from a non-leftist friend:
http://guyism.com/lifestyle/advice/kony-2012-viral-video-scam.html

and here another he gave me:

http://blog.joerenken.com/2012/03/07/invisible-children-and-kony-2012-exposed/

[Doflamingo]

After reading more about it, I've realized that it's bullshit. The man can't do much of anything anymore because he isn't even in Uganda. Also, according to the link above, isn't even in Uganda anymore.

[brigadista]

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[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

According to liberals, the only way to save the lives of Ugandans from a warlord who is probably not even alive anymore is by increasing imperialism against Africa. How smart. This whole movement is pseudo-grassroots, just like the Tea Party, and is meant to appeal to soft people who let their emotions get in way of them actually learning about the issue. It is also not a conincidence that this video came out only a few months after Obama sent advisors to Uganda.

[Minima]

there ought to be a parallel campaign with decent analysis and a critical dialogue with those who are actually affected to address actual problems in the region.

take advantage of the publicity and the opportunity to expose all sorts of injustices (western paternalism, colonialism, poverty of critical thinking in activism/charity cultures, capitalism, social marketing logic etc.)

[a rebel]

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/03/us-launches-pr-campaign-ugandan-oil-intervention

between more oil discovered and China's growing influence in Africa I expect things there to be heating up soon. American imperialism knows no bounds.

[tachosomoza]

It's liberal, trendy bullshit.

/thread.

[Minima]

@tacho and it subverts the moment and energy of "social activism" and technological innovation to such moronic ends. so it's a problem and merits discussion, no?

[rylasasin]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/34590-kony-wtf-2012