Desmond Tutu, famous anti-Apartheid Bishop, dead at age 90.

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[–]shilldetector 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Tutu was a thoroughly decent and honorable man as far as I can tell.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Honorable people can still turn out to be the absolute scum of the Earth.

Hell, I use that to describe a lot of Boomers I know in real life. They might have done good things when they were younger, but once they turned 60 and saw the world around them was in flames, they simply brushed it off as "not my problem".

Instead of opposing apartheid, Tutu could have simply told Black Africans to leave and just live in the other 99% non-white parts of Africa. But like a coward, he chose the path that got thousands of Whites killed instead.

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

Maybe what they see after turning 60 is the reason the world is in flames. It's because of the way humans fundamentally are.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ultimately, the greatest damage they've done now is actually to themselves.

They were warned not to hire third world immigrants over other white people. Now when they enter nursing homes and are unable to feed themselves, the brown people waiting for them inside are going to make them suffer.

I think this is what's going to wake up a lot of the younger generations to try and do something. There's no way any of us are going to accept the same fate without fighting for change.