Kony 2012

[Brent Smith]

I have to be honest with you when I first saw the Kony2012 poster I thought the guy was running for President somewhere and just had a really extreme No Child Left Behind Act

Lol!

[David Stager]

I watched the whole video and it reminded me of the year of my life that I spent as a member of a Socialist organization. Definitely not in a rush to get all culty with more college students, so I will pass on Kony 2012. However, I will be interested to see what happens on April 20th.

[Kyle Spalla]

My favorite part of that Kony video was of the crying chick who was like I have so many "friends" suffering in Uganda right now and people just need to know and understand what we are doing. Ok first off, this probably a "cause" her college friends talked her into so she didn't feel the guilt of her parents providing a full ride to college for her, and two people just love their activism to feel like they can say look at me world I made a difference, I am a better person than you because I watched the Kony video, bought the KONY lunch box and actually believed they weren't taking money from supposedly educated people. I am in Afghanistan right now. I with a heavy heart know full well I am making no difference, no progress and the people here still hate us and don't want to change. A few flyers and braclets 48,000,000 likes on Facebook isn't going to change the world. Want Kony? Pick a gun and start searching.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Is Invisible Children a perfectly well run charity? Clearly the answer is no.

Does that invalidate the fact that there is an issue here? No.

If nothing else, perhaps the way in which the video went viral helped to raise awareness of the situation, and perhaps help us as Americans to think outside of our comfort zones for a moment.

There's so much help we can offer in so many places and circumstances all over the world (and even in our own country). I hope that the potential shadiness of one organization doesn't sour any of you to the idea of giving (whether you give your money or yourself) and making a difference in the lives of people around you or abroad.

Unfortunately, many people will uncover some of the dirt on this organization and say, "see this is why I don't give to charity," assigning their guilt to all charities (unjustly so). The same thing happens with churches, too. The morons ruin what could otherwise be an amazing thing for the world.

In the end though, all organizations are filled with and run by humans. Humans make mistakes and bad decisions. Lots of them. Don't let these mistakes turn you off from being what you should be.

[CaseyD]

Giving 100% of the proceeds is impossible! Doing things cost $, positive or negative. That's just the facts. No chairities are perfet. I agree with Brandon^^^.

KONY 2012 He deserves to be punished. Yes, some of the brainwashed children will fight for him but a lot more children will be saved !

[Brent Smith]

Giving 100% of the proceeds is impossible! Doing things cost $, positive or negative. That's just the facts. No chairities are perfet. I agree with Brandon^^^.

KONY 2012 He deserves to be punished. Yes, some of the brainwashed children will fight for him but a lot more children will be saved !

Yeah but giving about 37% of the proceeds doesn't make sense. The 4 CEOs of the company have a salary of $80,000+ For people that just want to save the world, they're looking pretty shady in the process. This didn't put me off of helping people but made me really look into an organization first

[Brandon Mccaghren]

This didn't put me off of helping people but made me really look into an organization first

that's a reasonable response.

[David Stager]

My favorite part of that Kony video was of the crying chick who was like I have so many "friends" suffering in Uganda right now and people just need to know and understand what we are doing. Ok first off, this probably a "cause" her college friends talked her into so she didn't feel the guilt of her parents providing a full ride to college for her, and two people just love their activism to feel like they can say look at me world I made a difference, I am a better person than you because I watched the Kony video, bought the KONY lunch box and actually believed they weren't taking money from supposedly educated people. I am in Afghanistan right now. I with a heavy heart know full well I am making no difference, no progress and the people here still hate us and don't want to change. A few flyers and braclets 48,000,000 likes on Facebook isn't going to change the world. Want Kony? Pick a gun and start searching.

+1 I know it's cynical as shit to say things like this, but we really need to ask ourselves why this particular issue is gaining traction. When I see a group of mostly white, mostly college educated people (I am both by the way) having anything to do with Africa, alarm bells start going off in my head. At what point does this become less about saving children and more about assuaging white guilt?

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...e-mans-burden/

[CaseyD]

WITH another 25% to awareness programs. That doesnt count? That's at least 62% of the funds are going back into these kids; which is actually pretty good.

[Cesar Reyes]

There's a bad guy in Africa? NO FUCKING WAY.