Huntley’s stunt a symptom of growing white amnesia

Do you support Huntley?

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The Huntley threads and antowan's thread have made clear the fact that people on the forum need a wake up call. And reading yesterday's Sunday Times I came across this piece. Some of the comments by people here have been infuriating to say the least.

I suggest you read this with an open mind,
Perhaps Brandon Huntley has pointed the way forward. If Canada is happy to welcome enterprising South African jerks, we should seize the day by offering Ottawa a bulk deal: buy 10 of our doctors and get a hosepipe salesman, a sports administrator, a lion canner and an SABC executive absolutely free. No terms and conditions apply.
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It’s easy to laugh at Huntley, but his brazen cheek is not just a joke. It’s a sad index of an alienated historical ignorance that plagues many white South Africans of his (and my) generation. Just as the blustering Julius Malema has no grasp of the immensity of this country’s leap to freedom , so do a swathe of young white South Africans who were children in 1994 .
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Crime yes...
While fear and anger about criminal violence is entirely rational, white self-pity fictionalises both the past and the present. Most infuriating is a widespread white urge to amnesiac self-aggrandisement, linked to a ludicrous myth of white South African excellence. Because we’re privileged, we imagine we’ve somehow earned our privilege.
There’s nothing to be smug about. Barring a small minority of dissidents, the three apartheid generations of white South Africans nearly destroyed this country — whether through active or passive complicity in oppression. Only a tour de force of political genius from the ANC and a visionary National Party elite averted the cataclysm of civil war.
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AA is not about majorities/minorities it is prejudices that continue to exist that are so bad legislation is needed to deal with them...
And now, with all the sins of our fathers and mothers so wisely forgiven, it remains astonishingly easy to lead an easy life if you’re a young, white South African. White wealth (like black wealth) has grown massively since 1994. Most of us have the priceless advantage of a decent education in a skills-starved economy, along with the assets of family surety, family property, and an abiding prejudice in our favour among white employers. These factors far outweigh the corrective prejudice of affirmative action, particularly since that policy nudges white graduates towards lucrative entrepreneurial and private sector work, and away from the public service, where our skills are so desperately needed.
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Oops here a link to the article, http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id=1060828
 
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R13... said:
The Huntley threads and antowan's thread have made clear the fact that people on the forum need a wake up call. And reading yesterday's Sunday Times I came across this piece. Some of the comments by people here have been infuriating to say the least.
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What piece?

I'm also not sure if we require yet another thread on the matter.
 
I though about adding this to one of the existing ones, but decided not to because this touches on much more than the Huntley issue and I feel it deserved its own threads.
 
This is getting old...

Because of what ONE white guy did all white people are suddenly under attack.

But when black people make comments like "steal from whites its our right" we are told not to generalize all black people.
 
R13... said:
I though about adding this to one of the existing ones, but decided not to because this touches on much more than the Huntley issue and I feel it deserved its own threads.
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You seem to be upset about this for some reason?

Is it because he just burnt your bridge for trying the same thing?

Come on, this case was judged on individual merrit and he won. Let it go now, no need to cry about it any more ;)
 
DigitalSoldier said:
This is getting old...

Because of what ONE white guy did all white people are suddenly under attack.

But when black people make comments like "steal from whites its our right" we are told not to generalize all black people.
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+10

Pitbull said:
You seem to be upset about this for some reason?

Is it because he just burnt your bridge for trying the same thing?

Come on, this case was judged on individual merrit and he won. Let it go now, no need to cry about it any more ;)
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Hell yeah.
 
Huntley is just another straw on the white guilt riddled liberal camel's back....

For such supposedly tolerant and understanding individuals they really know how to hate and whinge
 
Nationalism and patriotism are diseases on the level of racism.
 
DigitalSoldier said:
This is getting old...

Because of what ONE white guy did all white people are suddenly under attack.

But when black people make comments like "steal from whites its our right" we are told not to generalize all black people.
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Then don't.
 
Pitbull said:
You seem to be upset about this for some reason?

Is it because he just burnt your bridge for trying the same thing?

Come on, this case was judged on individual merrit and he won. Let it go now, no need to cry about it any more ;)
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It is the defence of an idiot who was out to make SA look bad that I have a problem with... If he wanted to emigrate he should have done so like other people do. I imagine you did not read the article.

Btw, I am not a sprinkler salesman so I have no need for asylum...
 
it doesn't matter who really generalises first, if you generalise people you're a moron :)
 
dlk001 said:
There's a lot of generalization in these forums about Blacks.
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Now that the shoe is on the other foot they complain about it getting old. If there's anything getting old it is the gratuitous bashing of anything government/South African in these forums.

This behaviour is best described by this cartoon,
http://www.mg.co.za/cartoons/01jun06x.gif
 
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R13... said:
It is the defence of an idiot who was out to make SA look bad that I have a problem with... If he wanted to emigrate he should have done so like other people do. I imagine you did not read the article.

Btw, I am not a sprinkler salesman so I have no need for asylum...
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lol.

Ok then.....
 
R13... said:
It is the defence of an idiot who was out to make SA look bad that I have a problem with... If he wanted to emigrate he should have done so like other people do. I imagine you did not read the article.

Btw, I am not a sprinkler salesman so I have no need for asylum...
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he was probably just trying to be a hero to his white nationalist buddies and have his seat next to Bok van Blerk. all irrationality backfires when people use such advanced things like "evidence" and "facts".
 
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