Re: What would non-racist criticism of South Africa look like?
You can say that without being unfair, but look at Zimbawe, used to be richOriginally Posted by Husar
@Greyblades, it doesn't really is an an incentive to become brittish if you are put into a concentration-camp. I think most ex-Dutch would love to come back to the Netherlands really. Not sure where this is going. The Boers have a pretty good reason to dislike the Brittish, and vica versa. Welcome back anyway in the Netherlands as far as I care.
Last edited by Fragony; 05-30-2016 at 07:57.
Re: What would non-racist criticism of South Africa look like?
Yes we should have let them stay to starve with thier burning farms instead of attempting to keep them alive by putting them at the mercies of 19th century logistics and sanitation.
The boers started a war they could not win to protect their right to deny their utilanders the vote and right to treat their black neighbours bad enough to make 19th century europe cringe. They died in those camps because their leaders decided to wage a guerilla campaign beyond the point of sanity.
The standard response to guerilla tactincs was scorched earth, it was British sensibilities that put the civillians into camps to prevent them all starving and when the civillians started to succumb to camp diseases the boers kept fighting the hopeless war regardless. When the British stopped admitting new boers into the camps due to public outcry back home at their condition the guerillas found they now had to provide for their own people. They promptly surrendered.
The boers were not the jews and the british were not the nazis, no matter how much the current post colonial thought might wish you to think so.
Last edited by Greyblades; 05-30-2016 at 13:01.
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