Kony

[Temploar]

Is he really all that bad or was it all a hoax?

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

Well he got heaps of people killed, so I would say bad.

 

[Doss]

Very nasty man, no doubt. Was responsible for some pretty ghastly things in Uganda and probably Sudan.

What was interesting about his case was how he only really became (in)famous in the West in 2012. The fairly widespread opinion among those who were actually more in the know about the situation in Uganda was that he had ceased to be a major threat after about 2006- so why was he being brought to attention six years too late?

The belief behind the Kony 2012 campaign seemed to be that Westerners, coming from their short-attention-span, cause de celebre culture, needed a solid thing or person to latch onto to get their attention in regard to the situation in Uganda. Basically, that trying to get their attention by repeating the tired and tried lines of poverty, AIDS and malaria wouldn't work because it wasn't 'sexy' enough.

The extent to which the issue has failed to hang around in the mainstream media and public consciousness seems to suggest there may be a fair bit of truth to that line of thinking. "Kony 2012" had its day, now people couldn't give a rats.

Which is a damned shame, because it cheapens what is legitimately a pretty sad story of the various atrocities that Kony did perpetrate in Uganda, and in a wider sense, the huge challenges that Uganda and the region face to this day.

 

[LouisCK]

Crazy Christian fundamentalist. But child soldiers aren't specific to his crew.

 

[Sublime]

Very nasty man, no doubt. Was responsible for some pretty ghastly things in Uganda and probably Sudan.

What was interesting about his case was how he only really became (in)famous in the West in 2012. The fairly widespread opinion among those who were actually more in the know about the situation in Uganda was that he had ceased to be a major threat after about 2006- so why was he being brought to attention six years too late?

The belief behind the Kony 2012 campaign seemed to be that Westerners, coming from their short-attention-span, cause de celebre culture, needed a solid thing or person to latch onto to get their attention in regard to the situation in Uganda. Basically, that trying to get their attention by repeating the tired and tried lines of poverty, AIDS and malaria wouldn't work because it wasn't 'sexy' enough.

The extent to which the issue has failed to hang around in the mainstream media and public consciousness seems to suggest there may be a fair bit of truth to that line of thinking. "Kony 2012" had its day, now people couldn't give a rats.

Which is a damned shame, because it cheapens what is legitimately a pretty sad story of the various atrocities that Kony did perpetrate in Uganda, and in a wider sense, the huge challenges that Uganda and the region face to this day.

The whole campaign was a sham unfortunately.

Instead of telling the story to create awareness, it was portrayed as a witch hunt and used to raise cash that really went to no good cause.

 

[craffles]

I never got to put my Kony 2012 posters up as I was too busy planking the whole evening we were meant to cover the night.