RE: KONY 2012
March 8, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2012 at 3:57 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(March 8, 2012 at 8:24 am)Tempus Wrote: This. It seems everybody is signing petitions and buying bracelets but I'm not sure what these are supposed to do. What exactly are you funding by buying these things? Where do the profits go and is it a realistic/effective use of money and resources? I looked at one petition and I could basically some it up as 'bring Joseph Kony to justice protect people from the LRA'. A laudable goal, but HOW? How is this going to be accomplished?
It's called "slacktivism." People want to help, but don't really want to put out a lot of effort or get their hands dirty, so they think that by buying bracelets and signing petitions they've done their fair share. It's reminiscent of the "put a cartoon character as your avatar to stop child abuse" thing on Facebook a while back. OK, yeah it brings awareness, but doesn't really solve any problems. All it does is give the person who did that a warm fuzzy feeling by thinking they're making a difference, but in reality it didn't do diddly squat. Just like praying.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
