I'm white - just for the record - I think that people like trump are just ITCHING for a race war so they can go out there with guns blazing & mow down as many black humans as they can find - all they need is the excuse ! Thankfully the black population are quite well aware of what that hatred implies - they know how dangerous some of the white population can be ! I was VERY impressed with the S. African leader who totally 'saw trump coming' & nipped his stupidity in the bud as soon as he started it - what a disgusting & shameful piece of work trump is !
Exactly why many black authors I’ve read say that their population are sitting out the protests against Trump. Why give the Trump admin’s thugs an excuse to start shooting.
It´s not true that there has been no genocide on Whites. (White) people electing something like Trump must have experienced or allowed a mass murder of their brain cells, otherwise it is unexplainable how a mass voting for the Orange It could have come about.
I suppose it is silly and naive to ask why don't one of these world leaders call him a liar to his face and leave the meeting. That would be a movie trope, but not the kind of diplomacy that world leaders are forced to employ. See I've answered my own question.
Like children, reverse accusation is their only rhetorical tool, aside from lying. "We're not the genociders--you're the genociders!" when filtered through the MSM becomes "both sides do it", giving credence to a fantasy.
Agree, Trump is terrible. “Trump is terrible” is about the most tired, stale take possible and adds absolutely zero to the discourse. And, I would argue, viewing every single thing that takes place in the world through the lens of how it makes Trump look terrible (which he is) does a disservice to your readers as it blinds them to what is actually going on.
Did you watch the video Trump showed? That was no “anti-apartheid activist,” simply calling to end a national policy of racism (which, I feel compelled to add, officially ended decades ago; the country is now governed by representatives of its multi-ethnic population, and black people there have all of the rights of citizens).
The video showed multiple appearances by a black leader speaking before large crowds and screaming to those crowds that all white people deserve to die.
For four minutes in darkened room, attendees at this Oval Office meeting, including the press, watched crowds scream and chant loudly that while people were all racist and deserved to die.
And the takeaway was not that this might indicate a problem in South Africa, or that white farmers might have reason to be afraid. No, we get only yet another string of endless articles reminding us that Trump is a bad, bad man and should not be president.
Is what was depicted in the video a call for “genocide?” Probably not. (Someone might say it depends on the context, right?)
Should Trump have used the word “genocide?” Probably not. Again, Trump is terrible and has a terrible habit of using the most offensive and inflammatory language possible.
But it is certainly possible to believe the above about Trump and ALSO acknowledge that a society in which large numbers of people gather to hear people screaming and calling for the deaths of entire groups of people based solely on their ethnicity, and cheer loudly in response, is not a healthy society.
It is possible to believe the above about Trump and still acknowledge that the ethnic group targeted by these large crowds has reason to be afraid. It is possible to acknowledge that they have reason to be afraid even though they are of European descent and have white skin. It is possible to acknowledge they have reason to be afraid even though, in the past, the people targeted discriminated against the group now targeting them.
It is possible to hate Trump and ALSO acknowledge that the people chanting for the death of people based on their ethnicity are wrong. It is possible to acknowledge that Trump should not be using the word genocide and ALSO to acknowledge that calling for the deaths of an entire group of people based on their ethnicity - whatever you call it- is wrong.
If you cannot or will not acknowledge any of this because you believe that to do so would take away from pointing out that Trump is bad and racism by whites against blacks is bad, then your morals are skewed.
Now let’s turn to South Africa’s objection to Trump’s use of that word, genocide. It is possible to acknowledge that this was not an accurate description but ALSO to acknowledge that the South African government has no compunction using that same word to describe Israel’s actions in defending itself from a terrorist group on its border (and, it should be noted, that group makes no secret of its own desire to kill an entire group of people based solely on their ethnicity, and yet there is not a peep from South Africa in response.)
I'm white - just for the record - I think that people like trump are just ITCHING for a race war so they can go out there with guns blazing & mow down as many black humans as they can find - all they need is the excuse ! Thankfully the black population are quite well aware of what that hatred implies - they know how dangerous some of the white population can be ! I was VERY impressed with the S. African leader who totally 'saw trump coming' & nipped his stupidity in the bud as soon as he started it - what a disgusting & shameful piece of work trump is !
Exactly why many black authors I’ve read say that their population are sitting out the protests against Trump. Why give the Trump admin’s thugs an excuse to start shooting.
It´s not true that there has been no genocide on Whites. (White) people electing something like Trump must have experienced or allowed a mass murder of their brain cells, otherwise it is unexplainable how a mass voting for the Orange It could have come about.
It's all nonsense and fragility ;-)
Quibbling about definitions while white farmer families in SA have been getting massacred for a couple of decades. What a hill to die on. Repulsive.
I suppose it is silly and naive to ask why don't one of these world leaders call him a liar to his face and leave the meeting. That would be a movie trope, but not the kind of diplomacy that world leaders are forced to employ. See I've answered my own question.
Like children, reverse accusation is their only rhetorical tool, aside from lying. "We're not the genociders--you're the genociders!" when filtered through the MSM becomes "both sides do it", giving credence to a fantasy.
Agree, Trump is terrible. “Trump is terrible” is about the most tired, stale take possible and adds absolutely zero to the discourse. And, I would argue, viewing every single thing that takes place in the world through the lens of how it makes Trump look terrible (which he is) does a disservice to your readers as it blinds them to what is actually going on.
Did you watch the video Trump showed? That was no “anti-apartheid activist,” simply calling to end a national policy of racism (which, I feel compelled to add, officially ended decades ago; the country is now governed by representatives of its multi-ethnic population, and black people there have all of the rights of citizens).
The video showed multiple appearances by a black leader speaking before large crowds and screaming to those crowds that all white people deserve to die.
For four minutes in darkened room, attendees at this Oval Office meeting, including the press, watched crowds scream and chant loudly that while people were all racist and deserved to die.
And the takeaway was not that this might indicate a problem in South Africa, or that white farmers might have reason to be afraid. No, we get only yet another string of endless articles reminding us that Trump is a bad, bad man and should not be president.
Is what was depicted in the video a call for “genocide?” Probably not. (Someone might say it depends on the context, right?)
Should Trump have used the word “genocide?” Probably not. Again, Trump is terrible and has a terrible habit of using the most offensive and inflammatory language possible.
But it is certainly possible to believe the above about Trump and ALSO acknowledge that a society in which large numbers of people gather to hear people screaming and calling for the deaths of entire groups of people based solely on their ethnicity, and cheer loudly in response, is not a healthy society.
It is possible to believe the above about Trump and still acknowledge that the ethnic group targeted by these large crowds has reason to be afraid. It is possible to acknowledge that they have reason to be afraid even though they are of European descent and have white skin. It is possible to acknowledge they have reason to be afraid even though, in the past, the people targeted discriminated against the group now targeting them.
It is possible to hate Trump and ALSO acknowledge that the people chanting for the death of people based on their ethnicity are wrong. It is possible to acknowledge that Trump should not be using the word genocide and ALSO to acknowledge that calling for the deaths of an entire group of people based on their ethnicity - whatever you call it- is wrong.
If you cannot or will not acknowledge any of this because you believe that to do so would take away from pointing out that Trump is bad and racism by whites against blacks is bad, then your morals are skewed.
Now let’s turn to South Africa’s objection to Trump’s use of that word, genocide. It is possible to acknowledge that this was not an accurate description but ALSO to acknowledge that the South African government has no compunction using that same word to describe Israel’s actions in defending itself from a terrorist group on its border (and, it should be noted, that group makes no secret of its own desire to kill an entire group of people based solely on their ethnicity, and yet there is not a peep from South Africa in response.)