Article: EFF calling white people boers

Albereth said:
No. It's nothing like that. Calling a scotsman an englishman is like calling a xhosa a zulu. But you could call him a pom (or, pohm). Not saying that he'll love you for it but you're more likely to get you head kicked in for calling him english than a pom.

And I hope you're not giving any energy to being called a boer. The EFF are trying to push for the very response that they got.
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I am not a boer. It is neither culturally or technically appropriate to call me such. The term boer is used to describe Afrikaans people or farmers. I am neither. If some people take pride in being called a boer... like many afrikaans people do... thats great for them. They can run with it. Its not me or my culture.
 
If someone called me a boer it would be like calling me an Afrikaner and I would find that insulting :D
 
ghoti said:
I am not a boer. It is neither culturally or technically appropriate to call me such. The term boer is used to describe Afrikaans people or farmers. I am neither. If some people take pride in being called a boer... like many afrikaans people do... thats great for them. They can run with it. Its not me or my culture.
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If anything it's a case of mistaken identity. The racism is in his motive and intention, not solely in the word he used.

The difference between 'boer' and 'k4ffer' is that 'k4ffer' cannot be used in a non-insulting manner when a person is referred to as such.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
The difference between 'boer' and 'k4ffer' is that 'k4ffer' cannot be used in a non-insulting manner when a person is referred to as such.
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The same applies to "boer" in some of the indigenous languages.

Don't argue about what you seem to be ignorant of, that is just foolish.
 
Jola said:
The same applies to "boer" in some of the indigenous languages.

Don't argue about what you seem to be ignorant of, that is just foolish.
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The actual word used was AmaBhulu which in simple context means White Tribe of Africa - white people, it is also a Xhosa word.
 
Jola said:
The same applies to "boer" in some of the indigenous languages.

Don't argue about what you seem to be ignorant of, that is just foolish.
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And in at least one indigenous language it isn't.

"Boer" is not a Sotho word, or a Zulu word, or a Pedi word.

When they use it it's used in a very specific context, with a specific meaning behind it. That's not the word's definition.

My point stands, it's not the word itself, it's the meaning and intention behind it.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The actual word used was AmaBhulu which in simple context means White Tribe of Africa - white people, it is also a Xhosa word.
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Never heard a xhosa use that word. Only word they use for white people around here is mlungu. Which, I suppose like the word "boer" Can have negative or neutral connotations depending on the context it is used in. In language, context is EVERYTHING.
 
IMHO a good definition on Wikepedia:

Boer (/ˈbʊər/, /ˈboʊ.ər/, or /ˈbɔər/; Afrikaans: [ˈbuːr]) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier[2] in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (which are together known as the Boer Republics), and to a lesser extent Natal. Their primary motivations for leaving the Cape were to escape British rule and extract themselves from the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the tribes on the eastern frontier.

Boer is synonymous with Afrikaner.
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But, obviously, in the sense it was used by the EFF it was, in their ignorant little troll minds, derogatory, and in reference to all white South Africans.
 
It is really sad some people still make use of the "AmaBulu" word for all white people :( This is 2014, not the 20th century :(
 
You know what the ironic crux of the matter is here: If no-one reacted negatively to the statement, it would mean nothing. Instead someone decided to take offence/exception on behalf of others and now we have a 100-post thread about it, among other things.
 
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