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[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Are these anti-albino nationalists?

What has occurred in South Africa that produce this explosion in South African albinism?

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

yeah. often vitiligo will also get you killed.

i heard about silver poisoning, which will turn you blue. maybe the white farmers should drink a bit of colloidal silver. they are not going to kill a bunch of smurfs hopefully. :-)

seriously tho, nelson mandela was a knight of malta. i think zuma and tutu too. him and associated terror and palamilitary orgs promoted communism among the bantus for long enough to make it acceptable by now.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Knights of Malta, or not. I have to try to imagine the frustration of being a colony, and then an apartheid country.

It's easy to talk about forgiveness for the crimes if a person is ancestors. I've never had to imagine my ancestors enslaved, or subjugated. I'm not sure it's morally principled for an outsider to expect a victim to forgive a perceived perpetrator.

The US is still dealing with a similar conflict.

The South has not forgiven the North for the civil war, and vice versa. That was +130 years ago.

In a similar way there US society hadn't forgiven African Americans for being free. Or it may be that the power Elite haven't forgotten the common American for demanding justice for African Americans. As a punishment for this offence they set about casting the middle class into near poverty.
Maybe that's the penally for believing the propaganda about a free country.

I'm really not sure what I think about all of this. The destruction of the middle class feels tied to this history. Sometimes I like to throw every crazy theory at the wall to see what sticks. I'm on the fence.

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

Also, for the record I'm not questioning your morals, principles, or judging.

I'm just that I think that what the South Africans are doing is understandable. I certainly don't condone it. However, I'm definitely not a 100% pacifist, so I'm not sure I can completely condemn their use of violence. Revolutions are always ugly, and innocent people suffer through the tragedy of changes.