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2009-03-19 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Colonialism doesn't look that bad in the hindsight?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-19 03:45|| 2009-03-19 03:45|| Front Page Top

#2 To these African academics, "failure to go to school" is now the same thing as genocide.

Posted by Excalibur 2009-03-19 04:29|| 2009-03-19 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ridiculous. Deliberate hijacking of a well understood term is almost always done to advance a social engineering agenda. Examples of terms that have been stolen and redefined include "torture", "gay", "democratic"....

Posted by Bunyip 2009-03-19 07:45|| 2009-03-19 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I disagree. Deliberately creating conditions in which most of the population die is the lazy method of genocide. Think, for instance, about the Warsaw Ghetto, which had three purposes: to separate the Jews from the general population, to provide an boundaried area to which Jews from elsewhere could be shipped, and to create conditions -- grossly inadequate food, fuel and medicine rations -- such that between 25% and 66% of the population would die of "natural causes", reducing the number that had to be subsequently processed in death camps. It worked, too: I'm sure y'all have seen some of the many photos of the old and young lying dead in doorway after doorway... except the ones who died in the streets because they hadn't the strength to get to a doorway.

Yes, academics and other ideologues do many stupid and nasty things as they attempt to redefine the universe to match their preconceptions. This is not one of them.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-03-19 14:44|| 2009-03-19 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 It is quite difficult to attach western logic and modern terms such as "genocide, independence, democracy" to events in Africa since the first white man set foot on the continent. One must attempt to eradicate from one's mind the notion that being a mere breath of time, western beliefs or views must somehow be to blame for the natural selection, tribalism, disease and famine that has gone on in Africa for tens of thousands of years. If anything, the white man has delayed and reduced the slaughter through his attempts at installing the rule of law, modern governance, religion, and medicine.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-19 15:30|| 2009-03-19 15:30|| Front Page Top

#6 If anything, the white man has delayed and reduced the slaughter through his attempts at installing the rule of law, modern governance, religion, and medicine.

And thus creating a spectacular population explosion (multiplied by 10 over a century), with the overflow flooding whitey's homeland(s). Isn't that funny, in some weird way?

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-03-19 15:52|| 2009-03-19 15:52|| Front Page Top

#7 No good deed goes unpunished, anon. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-19 16:12|| 2009-03-19 16:12|| Front Page Top

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