Invisible Children are Covert Religious Propagandists.

“So, in summary, Invisible Children are expert propagandists with what seems to be a covert religious agenda, advocating military action in Africa while simultaneously recruiting an “army” of young people to join their cause (and their weird Fourth Estate youth camps) and to stand around posing like this [quasi-fascist looking picture], a bit like an army of child soldiers might.”

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So? Let's send in one group of Christians to handle another group of Christians.

fuck "saving the children"
save the planet's diversity and ecosystem by a worldwide distribution of contraception

and that will take care of the other problem - having millions of incredibly poor children susceptible to being handed a machine gun.

I'm surprised I haven't seen this "Kony 2012" topic on the sift...maybe I haven't been paying attention. In any case the more I read about it from people who have actually taken a serious look at the situation the more annoyed I am at celebrities and "pretty presenters" talking about a subject they don't really know much about.

However I've been listening to NPR the last few days and have heard experts in this field who are only being given airtime because of this "Kony 2012" video blowing up. So on the whole, although there's definitely some misinformation...perhaps the corrections and the excitement make this an overall positive thing.

KONY 2012!

On the fucking money.

Critical thinking plus a little fact-checking plus a liberal dose of humour equals huge win.

Upvote for stopping Fenton-oh-my-God-Jesus-Christ-Fenton.

*religion *money *effin' crooks.

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5:15... where did I see that before? Hmmm...

*nsfw *quality

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Co-founder of Invisible Children arrested in San Diego for public masturbation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/jason-russell-arrested-invisible-children-kony_n_1354455.html

I don't know. Leaping onto the anti-Invisible Children bandwagon seems as hasty as hopping onto the Kony 2012 one.

I didn't see anything in that clip that confirms what they're doing is wrong. It's just not how I would go about it. A slick campaign was developed by happy-clappy marketing christians? Plenty of aid organisations have religious roots. It'll be a good thing if it improves things on the ground, and that can happen a number of ways.

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I don't know. Leaping onto the anti-Invisible Children bandwagon seems as hasty as hopping onto the Kony 2012 one.
I didn't see anything in that clip that confirms what they're doing is wrong. It's just not how I would go about it. A slick campaign was developed by happy-clappy marketing christians? Plenty of aid organisations have religious roots. It'll be a good thing if it improves things on the ground, and that can happen a number of ways.


Like I said if it gets smarter people out there to raise awareness it's a good thing. I'd rather though it be done right and propagated the FIRST fucking time...you lose a lot of people to outrage of lies when this stuff gets hyped and then disproven in a week.

I equate it to my experience with Michael Moore. I wasn't very political when I was younger...read some Michael Moore and got more political. It turned out he was kind of simplistic and misrepresentative some of the time, I could of just got angry and dropped it. Instead Moore turned me on to Noam Chomsky...and I've read dozens of his books now and because of that have become more informed and passionate about current events.

I, for one, welcome our African war overlords.

*wtf doesn't begin to cover that.

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