Kony 2012 Sequel is Out and Fires Against Critics

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Kony 2012 Sequel is Out and Fires Against Critics - This week, Invisible Children released its somewhat anticipated Kony 2012 sequel in which the organization seemingly “fires back against its critics”.

(For those of you out of the loop on the matter, please check out my Kony 2012 cheat sheet.)

If you’re aware of the Kony 2012 film but aren’t clear on the controversy surrounding it, then the follow-up film may not mean a whole lot to you. Essentially what happened is this:

The short documentary Kony 2012 was released last month and went viral with over 100 million views. The film focuses on LRA leader Joseph Kony and the atrocities he has caused in the past 26 years which include the murder, enslavement and rape of children. It proved to be an effective tool for mobilizing people around the world.

HOWEVER the film had many critics. Many of whom claim that it oversimplified a very complex issue and that it was more about the filmmakers than the Ugandan people affected by Joseph Kony (who actually fled the country in 2006).

Kony 2012 Sequel is Out and Fires Against Critics

The new film addresses its critics from the get-go. Clips of newscasters calling Kony 2012 ”a passing fad” or “inaccurate” start the film. Still, within moments its narrator, Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey, attempts to bring viewers back to the original purpose of Kony 2012 and its viral reception.

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He remarks about how the internet allowed us all to become international social-activists:

“For the first time in history people of the world can see each other. And want to protect each other. This changes everything. This is why we made Kony 2012.” 

But what if the information isn’t all there? And what if people are being manipulated– having their heartstrings pulled when bigger, more complicated issues lie beneath? Is being mobilized for only a tiny piece of the puzzle worth it?

This follow-up or “Part II” of Kony 2012 argues that it is. Since the original’s release in March, over a 100 million people are now aware of the terror the LRA has inflicted on Africa. What’s more, the US senate has put forth a bi-partisan proposition on the matter and the African Union is dispatching 5,000 troops to find Joseph Kony and put an end to the LRA.

This is, without a doubt, a good thing. But there still is a lot to be done and whole other set of issues to be brought into the public eye.

I personally support the Invisible Children movement and think that the Kony 2012 phenomenon, at the end of the day, is a positive one. Perhaps even a world-changing one. We now know that the internet can be utilized to mobilize people around the world who will, in turn, put pressure on their policy-makers and change will (ostensibly) be made. Such is one of Keesey’s concluding comments:

“We are a new generation of justice. Made for such a time as this.” 

I think the controversy surrounding Kony 2012 has actually been as important (if not more) as the film itself. At the end of the day controversy means conversation. If everyone just blindly agrees with one another on an issue, nothing would be revealed– no further truths uncovered. We need conversation, sustained by two opposing sides, to get to the true heart of the matter. Only through this medium of communication, where people argue with one another, will we learn the depths of an issue.

What do you think?

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2 Responses to “Kony 2012 Sequel is Out and Fires Against Critics”

  1. Otreyu

    07. Apr, 2012

    Anyone with a brain knows this Kony crap is pure propaganda to sway the idiot public into invading Uganda for its overwhelming amounts of natural resources. 2 billion barrels of oil were just discovered in Uganda. We’ve always known theres war lords in Africa, but just now its an issue? Pretty coincidental that the video broke all youtube records for hits, that Jason Russel was photographed posing with assault rifles with Sudan militants. People are so stupid and will fall for anything. Iraq had WMDs, Bin Laden masterminded 9/11, Ghadaffi was a warlord….pffft, no WMDs in Iraq, Bin Laden had little to nothing to do with 9/11 (Mossad/Neo Con) falseflag operation, Ghadaffi was actually loved by his people, Syria and Lybia were invaded because Ghadaffi kiboshed central banking, and tried ushering in a currency based on Gold, the Dinar. Venuzuala, North Korea, and Iran are the last countries left who refuse to errect Rothschild central banks in their countries, what do they all have in common? Wake up people, and quit buying into this nonsense propaganda.

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    • Forest

      09. Apr, 2012

      Hey Otreyu, I think you really are simplifying the situation abit too much and falling into propaganda on the other side far too much.

      Are the usa interested in Uganda’s natural resources? Probably yes but I really don’t think Invisible Children are a part of that or even supporting that. The USA don’t need some silly propaganda program to get their noses involved over there and the Whitehouse and Uganda are quite buddy buddy as it is.

      The photograph has a perfectly plausible explanation and as much as I think it was a dumb photograph I can’t see that they were being pro-war in anyway.

      Iraq, what a mess! A huge mess indeed.

      The Arab spring is a different story though. Gaddaffi was not loved by his people as you claim, Sure he had many supporters but the fact is that he did dictate the country, he did a lot of horrendous things to citizens that disagreed and did cause some huge repression in what is essentially a very rich country. I was present for much of the Egyptian revolution and obviously bordering Libya I had some pretty close contact with many people who were going back and forth and some who had fled.

      Syria has certainly NOT been invaded, show me evidence of that if you have any.

      Venuzuala has a president who once ordered an air strike live on TV, again although I don’t think Chavez is all the big baddie he is sometimes made out to be he is power hungry and he is running a more USSR style of socialist state. I believe in socialism to a degree but not that degree.

      North Korea, I have never been nor have you and because of their secrecy neither you or I can really know anything about it.

      Iran, don’t even tell me that country isn’t screwed up however again not as bad as many make it out to be.

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