Pulling the race card

Bageloo said:
About the SABC I don't object. No one films a documentary and later decides, i'm going to sell that to BBC. In most instances a documentary is commisioned by the broadcaster. Once it is filmed it is then subjected to scrutiny and aproval by the broadcaster before it can be aired. Like I mentioned before every broadcaster has an agenda of some sort. It might not be a written policy but it is usually implemented (in practice) through the aproval and the commisioning processes.
The SABC blacklist is a very good example of an agenda that was threatening to become written policy.
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Once again - it is highly doubtful that the BBC has a racist agenda regarding crime in South Africa. Period.
 
Bageloo said:
Bull****. BBC is a broadcasting agency just like any other. BIASED
Thanks to BBC, CNN, oversees audiences only get to see the negative stories coming out of Africa. Positive stuff out of Africa would just not sell unless it's discovery channel material
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Explain how you believe the bbc to be biased, with particular reference to how you feel they are biased against africa. You would do well to back up your claims.
 
protzkrog said:
yes they are very insecure, they find fault with everything except themselves...blame it on apartheid, blame it on poverty, blame it on British Colonization...
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it's not as if the things they blame haven't played a role in the situations they encounter!
 
iMonga said:
it's not as if the things they blame haven't played a role in the situations they encounter!
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But are they always 100% to blame? This thread's parent story is a classic example of where race is not applicable, yet was used as a trump card by the ANC.
 
Bageloo said:
But they might have an afro-pessimistic agenda!!
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And I might be an alien from Mars!!

I might have murdered my whole family with a toothpick!!

:rolleyes:

Just because they might doesn't mean that they have. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
 
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on the one side the ANC spins their story - "create a non-racial society" no racism all that bollocks and then on the other side they use race to defend themselves as well as discriminate on the grounds of skin colour (affirmative action, sport quotas etc.), just as the previous uber-evil government has done on which the current government blame all their problems...
they are making the same mistakes as the apartheid government and its likely that they can expect the same outcome
 
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BobbyMac said:
But are they always 100% to blame? This thread's parent story is a classic example of where race is not applicable, yet was used as a trump card by the ANC.
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Not 100% of course since race will always be applicable in any interaction between ANC and their former colonizers. I would expect any political party to defend itself when feeling the heat but of course racism is quite a latent point to use for defence in this case.
 
iMonga said:
Not 100% of course since race will always be applicable in any interaction between ANC and their former colonizers. I would expect any political party to defend itself when feeling the heat but of course racism is quite a latent point to use for defence in this case.
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And an extremely easy one to pull out of a hat. The point is that in this instance slamming the BBC as racist was probably reaching. But that still didn't stop them from doing it.
 
BobbyMac said:
What's your point? That article is dated today, the documentary was shot some time back.
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It is an example dude. My point there was that there are numerous sources (very easy to find too) pointing to the contrary. But the BBC might have ignored those in pursuit of a particular goal. Like to pick on white murders and disregard the majority of murders happening in the country.
 
Bageloo said:
It is an example dude. My point there was that there are numerous sources (very easy to find too) pointing to the contrary. But the BBC might have ignored those in pursuit of a particular goal. Like to pick on white murders and disregard the majority of murders happening in the country.
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Dude. The actual documentary didn't seem racist to me, and I'm pretty sure that most of the viewers were more appalled at the crimes rather than the race. Not everyone sees everything along race lines.
 
Bageloo said:
The media usually zoom in on those crimes that are racially motivated just to make a point.
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No, they do it because it's more sensational. Bad news sells, really bad news sells really well.

It's not because of some hidden agenda that this happens.
 
As an African country, the ANC said, South Africa would remain the victim of "entrenched Afro-pessimism born of centuries of contempt for Africans".
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Perhaps Africa should give us a reason to be positive. If you look throughout africa, its no wonder there is afro-pessimism... if you get afro-positive, something that looks like it starts out well (Mugabe), ends up like Mugabe.

AWA.

Africa wins again.
 
Wiz ... are you measuring achievement using the capitalism scale?
Africa have achieved.
Show me another continent with protected ajoining wildlife areas running straight over country borders.
Bleugh ... I cannot think of any other African greats ... i'm too predijusted to american capitalist thinking.
 
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