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10. Affirmative-Action Absurdities
Racial quotas are a sacrament in the New South Africa—fine filaments of prejudice strangling every aspect of the society from sport to mining licenses to medical school access.
Modern race engineering offers Kafkaesque absurdities. The national rugby team is required to field a side that is “55% black” rather than 100 percent competitive. Since each team comprises 15 men, at least 8.25 of them must be black to satisfy the quota police. It is entirely unclear how the fractions will be settled—possibly by juggling injury substitutions or manipulating DNA tests.
The corrosiveness of quotas and the low expectations it engenders are everywhere apparent as South Africa slides closer to an abyss littered with the corpses of failed states that have gone before it.
After the ANC took over decades ago...there was no other future.
My first impulse was to reply, "by rounding up," in otherwords, 8.25 becomes 9.
But, your solution might be better--go to 23andMe, and decide how many magic black drops of blood each player has, and apply them against the team quota.
That could set a pilot for the projected US reparations. If you're "all" black, you get so many dollars. If you're half black, you get a little, if you're as black as Lizzy Warren is Cherokee, you pay, pay, and pay. No more box checking.
https://twitter.com/USPatriotBrig/status/1097972964019105798
Africa wins again..!
(four men striking each other with clubs and machetes as fellow village dwellers shriek and scream)
bkmk
the article is proof of the writer’s ignorance and racism
South Africa is on track to become zimbabwe. Tribal racism is shaping South Africa, not socialism
As long as it is corrupt blacks, forget any outcry from here or Europe. All is well when blacks loots the economy.
they made their own bed
“The corrosiveness of quotas and the low expectations it engenders“
Zimbabwe doesn’t have quotas. The Congo doesn’t have quotas. Liberia doesn’t have quotas (but it does have a wonderful constitution!). Sierra Leone doesn’t have quotas. Central African Republic doesn’t have quotas. South Sudan doesn’t have quotas. Angola doesn’t have quotas.
Need I go on?
What you refer to as “low expectations” are simple empiricism. Anybody with any concept of reality in 1994 knew EXACTLY where SA would be in 2019 and said so repeatedly.
Do not endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. The state of the world is not the result of anyone’s expectations.
There are some claims in that article I didn’t know.
The inflation rate in SA isn’t too bad now, around 5%.
When that starts taking off we know it’s becoming Venezuela.
You think you’ve seen bloodshed in Africa?
Just wait until China grabs a bit more.
They need the land for their people.
They don’t have the Christian guilt or “Morality” to get in their way of domination.
Folks will be dreaming of the good ole days with Ian running things.
Why report this as “scary”? It’s been obvious for years. Plenty of time to get used to it.
Prediction: In twenty years or less, South Africa is a Chinese military and naval base, controlling the sea lanes around the Cape of Good Hope. Consider all the sea lanes for oil and manufactured goods going to Europe and the Americas and the goods and raw materials going east from those places. That’s scary.
How does it happen? Despite the racial hostility of the South Africans to the Chinese, the Chinese have the money to lend to repair the S.A. Infrastructure. The S.A. “Government,” aka “gang of thieves,” will eventually take the money. When they don’t repair the infrastructure and pay it back, the Chinese will “graciously” accept base concessions instead of cash.
What is really scary is that our “brilliant, highly educated” betters running things in Washington and Western Europe cannot conceive of a way to affect that outcome, having created it in the first place.
Nope. America turned a blind eye because the government of South Africa is black.
To criticize South African government is to be labeled a racist and risk ending your career.
At least, that was the way it was before Trump.
All of this could have been avoided if it weren’t for Apartheid.
Genuine question: Is there a successful African country?
Note date at bottom.....
There is no country for Whites in the New World Order.
Or call it whatever you want - the way that the flow of history is arranging matters indicates that Whites & Western Civ in general are well on the way to cultural and societal extinction, and all of that self imposed.
Suicide of the West, then extinction.
Strangely, the only countries rejecting - and fighting -
this slide seem to be Russia & China.
Were I in SA I would look at such countries as ones to flee.
I am teaching my children Russian, Japanese, and later, Chinese as 2nd languages.
They will more readily accept and reward those with technical & engineering skills who can also bridge a language divide.
9 posted on 8/5/2012, 8:15:17 AM by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
“Freeeeee Nelson Mandela
Freeeeee Nelson Mandela”
“South Africa Is Becoming The Next Venezuela”
GOOD! They DESERVE it. Talk about a “RACIST” country!
First, racist against Blacks, now, racist against Whites.
What could possibly go wrong? /s
Are you promoters of “reparations” paying attention?
Corruption. It’s what invariably happens when a few people are given too much power. Look at any of the 3rd-world countries and you see the same thing. That is one of the reasons why the Founding fathers divided up the power in so many ways - to prevent greedy people from accumulating power. Even if a nation starts well with a benign dominating ruler, if it continues to concentrate its political power, it will inevitably attract greedy people who want to dominate others.
South Africa’s problems aren’t racial. The ANC is the problem.
Zulus and non-ANC are fine.