Friday, March 09, 2012

The real story about the "KONY 2012" viral video...

Nothing is more dangerous than a populist backlash. When groups of people begin chanting, reason of the individual often gives way to the mindless rants of the collective.

Nothing could be more obvious about this than the recently-viral video put out by the political-activist group Invisible Children (IC) called ”KONY 2012″. This video has gone viral, getting millions of views in an incredibly short amount of time.

The organization exists to get a “movement” set up to apply political pressure from international governments to be more heavily involved in Africa, specifically to focus on supporting Uganda and other nations fighting Joseph Kony, a terrorist leader.

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Please Note: If you found yourself emotional after watching the video, don’t feel bad at all. If you hadn’t yet studied the topic, then you reacted as you should — with horror at the rights of children being violated. But now let’s focus on the rest of the story — including the part of the story about the organization behind the video would prefer you not see. Full story...

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