When I first saw "Kony 2012", I admit I went a little blind and jumped on the bandwagon before I looked at the facts. Looking back, I was a naive fool.
The Invisible Children video dealt with Uganda and the strife it is in. Yet that video was made in 2003/4! Kony isn't in Uganda, and hasn't been there since 2006. In 2012, six years after Kony left the country, a video goes viral about the "atrocities occurring in Uganda today" (quote taken from the Invisible Children site).
Is anyone else feeling a little betrayed and insulted?
Because I sure as hell do. I feel betrayed because I support the underdogs. I do the forty hour famine, I sent shoe boxes and (attempted) to knit blankets to send to Haiti. But I want accurate facts. Who I am supporting, why I am supporting them, what is occurring now, not six years ago in the area, what is the government doing to support this issue. And yet all Invisible Children did with their video is play on emotion. It had "facts" in it, which I can't find anywhere else on the internet. And that just insults me. Do they think people aren't going to look up the issue themselves? Do they just think we will support a cause without doing out own research?
Yes, Kony is bad man, I agree. He has done awful things to a lot of innocent people. But if an organisation is going to make a video to go viral, make it current. Make it with up to date facts. I don't think the people supporting the issue are wrong to do so, I'm all for people supporting things they feel passionate for, but I personally can't support this.
At least, I won't support Kony 2012 until more current information is given to the masses by Invisible Children.
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