this is quite disorganized

[hep]

i don't have time to write a real post because i am already 2 days behind this week and it's only wed. also i already used my spare time to rant on the internet. so i am just going to repost this comment i dropped in another community. the question was would you support your child supporting KONY 2012. the question also specified that the org is a

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[separated]

yes to literally everything you just said

[separated]

it's ridiculous i never noticed this in OK (prob because no one there had any money to go faff off and do this), but since i've come to england, i'm amazed at the overwhelming amount of self-righteous rich white kids who like to brag about how they're "volunteering/saving the world" by going to africa and.. i dunon fucking around and petting tigers.. and they get like, corporate sponsorship and people to pay for this shit, just so they can go play in the jungle or whatever. that is NOT volunteering, that is a free vacation, and then they come back and feel superior about it. hi, that is not hte purpose of developing nations. but anyway, that's a sidenote to the rest of what you're saying, but yeah :I

[hep]

i so feel you on this. it's hugely prevalent in sf too, rich kids going to south america to hang out with parrots and get wild stories about eating alligator while doing one tiny thing to "help" someone there, all the while blowing through 10grand. then they come back to their cushy dot com jobs, feeling all high and mighty for having saved the world (re: built 1 habitat for humanity house) and feel like that's it, they built a house in guatemala once so they never have to think about social issues again, and all these poor people here? well those kids think that impoverished people here are just lazy fucks who don't need a fkn handout they need to learn to GET A JOB! or LEAVE THE COUNTRY! and just. ugh. there aren't enough words in the english language for me to rant about the rage i feel about this.

[auntiesiannan]

Joseph Kony needs to be apprehended, but I don't think that IC, the people behind this KONY2012 enterprise, are going about it in a way that is consistent with their purported mission. The fact that they are working with military regimes that are no better than Kony's practices, and the state of their finances, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Good assessment here. I've been sending that link to anyone who exhorts me to sit through that half-hour youtube vanity project.

[hep]

youtube vanity project is such a perfect descriptor too.

[auntiesiannan]

Oh, pity the poor white film major's burden, that he must traipse into the ickypoo brown lands of darkest Africa in order to find some new level of suffering that will get people talking and praising him, all in the guise of social awareness!

[morbid_curious]

Just posted that link on the Facebook page of an NZ current affairs show that's going to be doing a story on it shortly. With any luck, it may even got on-air exposure. Thank you!

[jadeejf]

I have a lot of feelings on the subject too, and most of them mirror yours exactly. I am wary of a lot of church-run mission trips for these reasons, though I have gone on only one myself (well, to a city in the u.s.) as an adult to assist with hurricane cleanup. In that case, though, it wasn't us running around trying to get someone out of power, but really just being the hands to pull rotting carpeting out of someone's home, or clean up crap in their yards. I could justify it, and I would do it over again, but there are so many other mission trips that I can't get behind, and so many NPOs doing the things you talk about that just make things worse, and it's mind-blowing and very sad to watch :(

[jeunelis]

In a way, it's just slacktivism. I saw the Kony thing popping up yesterday, and the usual suspects on my friends list (the people who do all the breast cancer bra color shit) jumped right on the bandwagon.

I don't know enough about the situation, but from the vague reading I've done Invisible Children are very shady, and I am very wary of supporting them.

[fornikate]

JESUS CHRIST, THIS. THIS SO HARD.