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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you notice, not only is the huge press coverage very one-sided, but also very xenophobic, reflecting the general attitude of the world population.

Recent? They've always been that way. Apartheid was a big reason for that. For the past three decades, entire white families have been getting murdered, despite being native, simply for owning land. 50 years of oppression breeds some serious animosity. It's only natural that outsiders would be regarded with some extreme negativity. Unless you have a lot of money and want to spend it. Then they're real nice.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Recent? They've always been that way. Apartheid was a big reason for that. For the past three decades, entire white families have been getting murdered, despite being native, simply for owning land. 50 years of oppression breeds some serious animosity. It's only natural that outsiders would be regarded with some extreme negativity. Unless you have a lot of money and want to spend it. Then they're real nice.

The Zimbabwean refugees who were beaten, burned alive, etc... were all black.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So? You did see the part where I said outsiders, right? And the part where I said the white families were natives? So, putting two and two together, one should naturally conclude that any outsiders would be treated even worse than natives.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrushFearSynth wrote:
So? You did see the part where I said outsiders, right? And the part where I said the white families were natives? So, putting two and two together, one should naturally conclude that any outsiders would be treated even worse than natives.

And you are confusing the white land owners getting murdered in Zimbabwe with what I'm referring to.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, white land owners getting murdered in South Africa. No confusion at all, you're missing the point entirely.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No, white land owners getting murdered in South Africa. No confusion at all, you're missing the point entirely.

I was talking about black refugees getting murdered in Johannesburg, where this movie takes place.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Johannesburg is in South Africa, not Zimbabwe. The white land owners I was referring to are South African natives. My point was that if they do this kind of thing to people who live there, its realistic to assume they'd be worse to foreigners. Which they are.

What was the point of all this, anyway? Did we have one?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CrushFearSynth wrote:
Johannesburg is in South Africa, not Zimbabwe. The white land owners I was referring to are South African natives. My point was that if they do this kind of thing to people who live there, its realistic to assume they'd be worse to foreigners. Which they are.

Man, you're going to make me go do your homework for you, eh? Smile

The squatting/forcing white landowners off their land by force is happening in Zimbabwe. They had a lot of white people from their Rhodesia days. It's basically Mugabe allowing the Bush War to continue without a military to fight off the attackers.

If that's also going on in South Africa, I haven't heard about it.

CrushFearSynth wrote:
What was the point of all this, anyway? Did we have one?

Wondering if Jackson put those clips of the locals in there as hypocritical shock value for the gentrified ignorant Americans who consider people that have been very wrongfully subjugated to be saints by proxy, a condemnation of current South African popular sentiment, or a little bit of both?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Over 1200 white farmers have been murdered in South Africa just since '94 alone. Not so good with the homework, I suppose.

I don't see what you're referring to, though. And as such, I suppose I see no hypocrisy. But I think you're reading too much into it.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just got home from seeing this..... VERY good, also sad.

I want a lightning gun that makes people explode.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haven wrote:
Just got home from seeing this..... VERY good, also sad.

I want a lightning gun that makes people explode.


I was going to say the same exact thing. Finally got to watch it. Loved it. I also want a lightning gun that makes people explode into a puddle of goo.
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