I've been thinking about doing some public refuting, but so many of my kids are engaging in social justice activity for the first time I hate to quash it. They can't afford to give, so I'm not worried about money going to a questionable charity. But it might be time for another round of "more than tokenism" posts on facebook.
I think the best thing coming out of the whole Kony 2012 phenomenon is that there's been almost as much press about how taking online calls to activism at face value is a bad idea because Invisible Children is a pretty sketchy "charity" and their account of what's going on in Uganda is dangerously oversimplified and so on and so forth, that I feel like most people are coming out of this more informed than when they started.