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Lets break it down so you can understand here:
Oh Thank you so much Ziggy, you truly are a wordsmith genius!
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OK so here you imply that Australia is a flourishing country because they had very few natives, which in turn implies that native people are counterproductive to a flourishing, productive society/ economy whatever.
No Ziggy, what I was implying and trying to put forward was the following. Let’s first ask the question, what has resulted in the downfall of some, if not all former European colonial states? I would have to answer that it was the uprising of the original inhabitants (the natives) of those countries against the oppressive colonial power. Not that the native was counter productive, but the preceding years to said overthrow had extensive economic and social implications.
Now, for arguments sake (do you guys know what that means?), lets remove the factor that resulted in the downfall of the European colonial powers. As was mentioned earlier, if the Europeans did to Africa what was done to the US and annihilated all the indigenous inhabitants, years later there would not have been a native uprising.
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It suggests genocide as a viable choice AND suggests that had we as white people wiped out the Africans that this country would be a crime-free utopia and our economy would florish on Gold and Biltong exports no doubt.
Actually, according Megafox who brought up the idea, I was referring to the whole of Africa (like if the Europeans had taken the whole of Africa and split it into different states… well, just like the US of A), not just little ole SA exporting gold and Biltong.
And yes, the mass genocide of Africans would have resulted in this continent having a whole different future. But I doubt a crime free Utopia, where did you pull that from?? Hmmm??
But look at the US, where they did wipe out the locals… was there an uprising of an oppressed native that resulted in the handing over of country to an uneducated, socially repressed majority? No. And the same could be said for Aus and NZ
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But the real kicker here is that I have seen similar statements on white-supremisit pages where all the problems of society are blamed on non-whites and minorities using steriotypes to say that they are stupid or more prone to break laws or whatever.
What were you doing on White Supremist pages, Ziggy? You must be a racist!!
I shall agree with you that these ideas are shared by the abovementioned groups. I however would not regard myself as remotely associated with these people; I would qualify myself on the other side of the spectrum.
What annoys me the most about the reaction I have received here is that I am being persecuted and branded for mere thoughts. The pondering the possibility of Africa being in a different situation had the Europeans approached this place differently when they arrived 3 hundred years ago! By looking at history and saying… ‘what if?’.
What you guys are putting across is that people are allowed to think and put across ideas on this forum, as long as they are inline with what is considered PC. Because if they are not, and step over the line of what is socially considered wrong (genocide, racism etc.) you qualify for one of the many ism’s.
I suppose you guys have never though about how Africa might be today had the white man wiped out the black man, of course not, none of you are racist. None of you have wondered what Europe might be like today had Hitler won the war, of course not, none of you are Nazis. Or if the Soviets became the next super power… nope, none of you are communists. Or killing that idiot who just cut in front of you on the highway, none of you are murderers!
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