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Is there any other instance in history in which a small minority built a country, had a long history within it, brought it into modernity and created its democracy, and then handed that democracy's reins to a much larger group, even though reason informed that this would bring persecution? Call it magnanimity, call it stupidity, call it both, but it's one thing for sure: strikingly unprecedented.
Whatever you call it, SA whites had a lot of help in crafting their suicide pact from a hypocritical Western world that saw a government more benevolent than most others on its continent, but nonetheless placed an undue onus on it because the rulers were the wrong race. SA was the George Zimmerman of the geopolitical stage: the white-on-black incident that got all the press while rampant black-on-black crime was ignored.
In truth, many of SA's current troubles could have been avoided by a two-state solution, the kind of healthy "apartness" the West so easily saw the logic in upon the former Yugoslavia's dissolution. And now, even though the West's ending apartheid has led to impending genocide, it sees nothing. To the modern liberal, white is the new invisible.
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Whatever you call it, SA whites had a lot of help in crafting their suicide pact from a hypocritical Western world that saw a government more benevolent than most others on its continent, but nonetheless placed an undue onus on it because the rulers were the wrong race. SA was the George Zimmerman of the geopolitical stage: the white-on-black incident that got all the press while rampant black-on-black crime was ignored.
In truth, many of SA's current troubles could have been avoided by a two-state solution, the kind of healthy "apartness" the West so easily saw the logic in upon the former Yugoslavia's dissolution. And now, even though the West's ending apartheid has led to impending genocide, it sees nothing. To the modern liberal, white is the new invisible.
Read more: Articles: The Road to Genocide is Paved with Liberal Intentions
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