Colonialism wasn't all bad‚ says Helen Zille

[Knyro]

Nice try.

But Zille‚ replying to another twitter user‚ @GrahamDowns‚ said: “I do not know what positive Hitler produced. He stoked up nationalism and authoritarianism and genocide‚ and destruction.”

Pot, meet kettle.

 

[Ho3n3r]

The irony, the very institution through which Maimane speaks his voice was brought to SA through colonial means.

I wish more and more that colonialists came here, saw it's a ****hole and left, never to return again, and telling their friends and families to avoid it like the plague.

Wonder what Africa would be like today without people who are actually able to invent stuff and improve their own lives.

 

[Slootvreter]

Pot, meet kettle.

No, I'm not even going into the whole Hitler Nazi thing. That's just ridiculous :crylaugh:

Colonialism did bring positives, together with the negatives.

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

Colonialism was good in many ways but the colonized see it differently.

It was brutal to them i suppose.

You will read! No choice was given. This is but one example.

 

[Knyro]

No, I'm not even going into the whole Hitler Nazi thing. That's just ridiculous :crylaugh:

Colonialism did bring positives, together with the negatives.

So did Nazism by Zille's standards. You're just going to ignore the improvement of Germany economically as well technological advancements brought forth by the Nazi regime?

You're just as hypocritical as she is.

 

[LCBXX]

No, I'm not even going into the whole Hitler Nazi thing. That's just ridiculous :crylaugh:

Colonialism did bring positives, together with the negatives.

Spot on. It is a trade-off with long term positives TBH. Perhaps the DA and SJWs would like some Sharia Law?

 

[Slootvreter]

So did Nazism by Zille's standards. You're just going to ignore the improvement of Germany economically as well scientific advancements brought forth by the Nazi regime?

You're just as hypocritical as she is.

Seriously, you do not have to agree with me, and you can call me what you want.

Colonialism was probably bad, but what would we have had today without it? What would SA have looked like? The colonialists in a lot of other African countries have long since left. Look at what's going on there. :crylaugh:

 

[R13...]

I wish more and more that colonialists came here, saw it's a ****hole and left, never to return again, and telling their friends and families to avoid it like the plague.

Wonder what Africa would be like today without people who are actually able to invent stuff and improve their own lives.

A false dichotomy as usual.

 

[Knyro]

Spot on. It is a trade-off with long term positives TBH. Perhaps the DA and SJWs would like some Sharia Law?

Shame, poor SJWs are triggered by the positives that the Nazis brought.

 

[zululami]

DA has captured the black vote - no need to pretend for her anymore.

True colours shine... Not that I am surprised... DA supporters on this forum are happy to agree with her....

Imagine if a black person said 'some' farm murders could be justified? for whatever reason...

"Leaders" must stop making polarizing statements Zille, Malema etc... It is stupid and insensitive, especially in a country like ours.

 

[porchrat]

Imagine if a black person said 'some' farm murders could be justified? for whatever reason...

"For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative‚ think of our independent judiciary‚ transport infrastructure‚ piped water etc‚”

Where in that statement does she say that colonialism was justified?

There is nothing wrong with admitting that some parts of the cultures that colonised this country remain to this day, positive things.

 

[ToxicBunny]

"For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative‚ think of our independent judiciary‚ transport infrastructure‚ piped water etc‚”

Where in that statement does she say that colonialism was justified?

Its called nuance, and its a concept that seems to escape most people these days.

 

[LCBXX]

Shame, poor SJWs are triggered by the positives that the Nazis brought.

Yeah...like wildlife conservation, welfare programs, rockets and advances medicine. The latter off course due to unthinkable human experiments, but advances which would not have existed without it.

 

[skeptic_SA]

For somebody of her political standing and intelligence - knowing full well the tenuous powder keg that is "color vs color" in SA at the moment - this was a daft move, sealing her fate imo.

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

Even so it was not in SA's best interest for the future.
Malema and Zuma must be sharing a bottle bubbly right now

Yes, their supporters will be lapping it up and letting it feed their rage.

They must now grow up.

 

[porchrat]

Its called nuance, and its a concept that seems to escape most people these days.

She explicitly capitalises the word "only" to demonstrate that she is addressing the concept of all aspects of colonialism being viewed as negative.

Her meaning was clear.

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

Yeah...like wildlife conservation, welfare programs, rockets and advances medicine. The latter off course due to unthinkable human experiments, but advances which would not have existed without it.

First country to initiate anti-animal cruelty league.

 

[ToxicBunny]

She explicitly capitalises the word "only" to demonstrate that she is addressing the concept of all aspects of colonialism being viewed as negative.

Her meaning was clear.

For most of us, yeah it was abundantly clear...

It does make me dispair at times that the SJW's can be so fekking stupid and vocal...

 

[Knyro]

For most of us, yeah it was abundantly clear...

It does make me dispair at times that the SJW's can be so fekking stupid and vocal...

I think many of us are exasperated because she really should know better by now but she does it time and again. Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

 

[Ho3n3r]

A false dichotomy as usual.

Delusional as usual.