I have a hard time believing that after putting in all the effort of creating the video and getting it out there that this guy would do something like this but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.
the description sounds like textbook manic symptoms.
if i were this guy and suddenly had a huge internet audience watching my movies and then accusing me of distortion and lying, i can see it triggering a manic episode really easily.
Maybe it shouldn't...but that makes me think a little less of this guy.
I have always tried...
but now I think I will redouble my efforts to fact-check and look with a critical eye, at issues that come to my attention via 'Clicktivist' campaigns.
EDIT:
...He is described on the organization's [Invisible Children] website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer."...
Not at all a slow news day for clicktivism. Better to just rip the band-aid off though... less painful that way.
It's disturbing to see blatant prejudice on HN against someone who may have a mental illness. (I'm not a doctor, and I'm not saying he does. Maybe he just went on a drinks / drugs bender, in which case judge away.)
His erratic behaviour shouldn't be causing you to scrutinise their information; that's something you should be trying to do anyway.
For a reputable source you could try IRIN (Yes, I post lot from them. I have no connection to them.)
> Invisible Children only publish information on LRA, or suspected LRA, activity on their LRAcrisistracker.com website, while other acts of violence in the region - where aid workers say the “DRC government is absent” and there are alleged human rights abuses by FARDC and Ugandan troops operating with the assistance of US forces in CAR - never get a mention.
One person says "Maybe it shouldn't...but that makes me think a little less of this guy.
I have always tried...
but now I think I will redouble my efforts to fact-check and look with a critical eye, at issues that come to my attention via 'Clicktivist' campaigns."
If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness, well, you shouldn't think less of him. That's like saying you'd think less of someone if you found out they were Jewish, or that they used a wheelchair.
Another person says "I have a hard time believing that after putting in all the effort of creating the video and getting it out there that this guy would do something like this [...]"
If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness he either has less control or no control over his actions and thoughts. That's not an excuse to just let him do it, but it shouldn't affect the campaign.
Frustratingly I thought there was lots wrong with the KONY video, but my stigma-reduction for people with MH problems is bigger than that.
Obviously, maybe he was just on drugs, or is a weirdo. In which case he should get what he deserves.
The ivory-tower relativist view may give him a pass, but in the real world this turkey is cooked.
And that is total BS that you would compare people with mental problems to Jewish people or those born physically disabled. Yes, I twisted your words, but not that much. You could have chosen much better examples.
There are several types of discrimination - race, sex, sexual preference, age, ability, and religion.
My point was to compare one type of discrimination -discrimination against those with a disability, a mental illness - with other types of discrimination, either discrimination against those with a different disability - those who use wheelchairs, or discrimination against people of a different ethnicity.
Why is it acceptable to say "This person has a mental illness and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect"?
Why is that acceptable if it's not acceptable to say "This person is a wheelchair user and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect" or "This person is gay and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect"?
I didn't want to engage this further, but here I go:
Mental disability is too broad a topic to cover in the comments of HN. It covers a range from phobias to anti-social behaviors.
And yes -- this man and his work are suspect because immediately following his apparent success he was alleged to be masturbating in public and endangering himself.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 52.7 ms ] threadif i were this guy and suddenly had a huge internet audience watching my movies and then accusing me of distortion and lying, i can see it triggering a manic episode really easily.
Wow...
Maybe it shouldn't...but that makes me think a little less of this guy.
I have always tried...
but now I think I will redouble my efforts to fact-check and look with a critical eye, at issues that come to my attention via 'Clicktivist' campaigns.
EDIT:
...He is described on the organization's [Invisible Children] website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer."...
Not at all a slow news day for clicktivism. Better to just rip the band-aid off though... less painful that way.
His erratic behaviour shouldn't be causing you to scrutinise their information; that's something you should be trying to do anyway.
For a reputable source you could try IRIN (Yes, I post lot from them. I have no connection to them.)
(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95083/SECURITY-Fighting-Kony-...)
> Invisible Children only publish information on LRA, or suspected LRA, activity on their LRAcrisistracker.com website, while other acts of violence in the region - where aid workers say the “DRC government is absent” and there are alleged human rights abuses by FARDC and Ugandan troops operating with the assistance of US forces in CAR - never get a mention.
If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness, well, you shouldn't think less of him. That's like saying you'd think less of someone if you found out they were Jewish, or that they used a wheelchair.
Another person says "I have a hard time believing that after putting in all the effort of creating the video and getting it out there that this guy would do something like this [...]"
If (and it might not be) it is a mental illness he either has less control or no control over his actions and thoughts. That's not an excuse to just let him do it, but it shouldn't affect the campaign.
Frustratingly I thought there was lots wrong with the KONY video, but my stigma-reduction for people with MH problems is bigger than that.
Obviously, maybe he was just on drugs, or is a weirdo. In which case he should get what he deserves.
And that is total BS that you would compare people with mental problems to Jewish people or those born physically disabled. Yes, I twisted your words, but not that much. You could have chosen much better examples.
There are several types of discrimination - race, sex, sexual preference, age, ability, and religion.
My point was to compare one type of discrimination -discrimination against those with a disability, a mental illness - with other types of discrimination, either discrimination against those with a different disability - those who use wheelchairs, or discrimination against people of a different ethnicity.
Why is it acceptable to say "This person has a mental illness and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect"?
Why is that acceptable if it's not acceptable to say "This person is a wheelchair user and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect" or "This person is gay and thus all of their work is suspect and all of the work of their organisation is suspect"?
Mental disability is too broad a topic to cover in the comments of HN. It covers a range from phobias to anti-social behaviors.
And yes -- this man and his work are suspect because immediately following his apparent success he was alleged to be masturbating in public and endangering himself.