I wish I could have made that title up - but I didn't. That was Save the Congo, who basically just directly equated cell phone purchases to rape. QED.
And they did this how? Through shock and awe: `Unwatchable' is a film they just released in which a gang of British soldiers attacks an upper-class white family in the Cotswolds. Young women are raped. Men are shot. Gonads are severed and fed to survivors.
No, this isn't a second-rate Michael Haneke knockoff, but it feels like it. It's pretty awful, and apparently based on a true story. Still, that doesn't necessarily mean that mobile phones are the main drivers of rape in the DRC or that kneejerk legislation like the Dodd-Frank bill makes sense. We need intelligent discussion to work our way through these problems - I don't see any room for shock tactics like this.
People who approach debate like this are absolute nutters and should be kept as far away from the discourse as possible.
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poverty is eating people.