Personally, I think Kony is OutrageFilter, Cause-du-jour. Look at the Iranian elections in 2009 two years ago. How much Green did you see on Twitter this time around?
Because want to feel outraged, and feel they have done something, but they don't actually care.
That's the simplistic response most middle-aged people make, and fails to take into account what's actually happening as a result of the IC campaign.
To quote someone over on Richard Watts' FB: "Our paper has run a dozen or so lead stories and features on Kony and Uganda in the last couple of years, with zero response. Last night switch was inundated with calls from children demanding we cover it. The yoof have NEVER called in like that before, not even for occupy or arab spring."
Within two days it was front page news across the world, with kids actively pestering parents to donate and starting up fundraisers at their schools.
I can only imagine how much funding IC has garnered as a result of that. Hell, I gave them ten bucks before it occurred to me to investigate a little deeper.So the campaign has initiated change. It's raised a tonne of cash, a tonne of awareness, and is actively influencing US foreign policy to the extent that the US is now intervening in a country that is of no benefit to them. It is front page news.
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That will show him!
Personally, I think Kony is OutrageFilter, Cause-du-jour. Look at the Iranian elections in 2009 two years ago. How much Green did you see on Twitter this time around?
Because want to feel outraged, and feel they have done something, but they don't actually care.
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How that will lead to the capture or "compromise" of Kony I don't know.
Hell, the Ugandans weren't able to do it for years, I don't a trickle of Facebook Likes is going to help for the hunt now.
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To quote someone over on Richard Watts' FB: "Our paper has run a dozen or so lead stories and features on Kony and Uganda in the last couple of years, with zero response. Last night switch was inundated with calls from children demanding we cover it. The yoof have NEVER called in like that before, not even for occupy or arab spring."
Within two days it was front page news across the world, with kids actively pestering parents to donate and starting up fundraisers at their schools.
I can only imagine how much funding IC has garnered as a result of that. Hell, I gave them ten bucks before it occurred to me to investigate a little deeper.So the campaign has initiated change. It's raised a tonne of cash, a tonne of awareness, and is actively influencing US foreign policy to the extent that the US is now intervening in a country that is of no benefit to them. It is front page news. ( ... )
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But what do I know. I didn't bother to watch what everyone is talking about anyway.
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