Zimbabwe's experience with kicking out the white farmers and seizing their land for redistribution.

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[–]sproketboy 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I just want to point out that this has nothing to do with "melanin".

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Same thing happened in Venezuela, they decided to "redistribute" land, and it made to less productive organization, many people of which didn't have the know how to be as productive as the people who did it before.

In that case wasn't so much white, it was a perceived difference in identity (landowners). Identity politics compete with merit/outcome politics, and end up not getting good outcomes, and then they get surprised pikachu faces when people start starving.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

The economics of the pre capitalist system has destroyed the local economies.

Also, things weren't as bad for the locals as the media reported.

Fake news is everywhere. Why should we believe them?

The Corporate US military is still eager to get back there to steal their resources.

The very same interests that pay to propagandize the American people (and everyone else).

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also, things weren't as bad for the locals as the media reported.

A lot of people left Venezuela for food reasons. Venezuela had been on the decline for a long time. Nobody cared until food issues started.

"To end an empire you don't need swords. You only need to remove their bread and the head will follow."

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

According to the media. ‾_(ツ)_/‾