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| Daniel Greenfield: South Africa in the Shadows |
| 2013-12-08 |
| Mr Greenfield says what needs to be said, but not in the tasteless, classless manner I would. A good read nevertheless. An excerpt: In the new apartheid, the black government represses a white minority and abuses its power over the black majority in ways that Western liberals would never tolerate if it were being practiced by men with Dutch last names. Every government crime is covered up by more incitement against the white minority with each generation of activists struggling to outdo the previous generation in its anti-white racism. There has been no moment of transcendence that endured. No cure for the things tearing the nation apart. There is no new spirit in South Africa. There is a new apartheid defined not by law, but by hate. Freedom and democracy are equally vaporous under the rule of a political movement obsessed with the vicious pragmatism of power now being exercised by Mandela's African National Congress successors. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Excellent, excellent piece by Greenfield. In her article entitled Conflict in Africa: The socio-psychological perspective, Lize-Marié Smuts examines both 'culture and status' as opposed to the political and economic approaches to explaining conflict in Africa. As attempts are made to explain the causes for our own so-called 'knock out game' we continue to blindly return to political and economic motivations. I tend to agree with Smuts and her suggestions of a more primeval cause. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-08 03:48 |
| #1 Greenfield is a daily check. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-12-08 01:22 |