And the Kony 2012 juggernaut rolls on
I spent yesterday trying to write a post on my views on Invisible Children's KONY 2012 video that has gone viral and garnered millions of views (38,430181 on YouTube as I write this). More specifically, I wanted to write about what I thought was wrong with both the approach of the film-makers and the way people without the slightest clue about the LRA (besides the misinformation gleaned from KONY 2012) were taking up the Stop Kony cause with such fervour. However, Twitter could not let me do that in peace because almost every 5 minutes I received links to articles and blog posts reacting to the Invisible Children campaign. Posts like this one by Michael Wilkerson guest posting at Foreign Policy , and this post by Ugandan blogger Angelo Izama are just two of the many that are out there echoing my feelings. There is also this video from Ugandan blogger Rosebell Kagumire As a result I feel what I had to say has already been said by many other people-many t