Re: Mr.Genius

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:21:48 +0200, Mel <me...@adderleystreet.NOSPAM.co.za>
provoked the following text:

>>Here's your clue-by-four:
>>rac�ism n. 
>>1- The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or
>>ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 
>>2- Discrimination or prejudice based on race. 
>>and
>>racism n 
>>1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to
>>members of other races 
>>2: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
>>Now about the situation you describe; that is:
>>1- Prejudice based on geography. If you want to put a name to it, call it
>>geographism.
>
>no one understands that... so racism will do... 

Okay, be stupid for all i care. I've tried.

>and yes, people know that whites also live and are born in Africa, but trust
>me, Africa would not be shunned and ignored the way it is if it was
>populated by mostly white people...
>
>when Africa was under white power in colonial times, people were happy to do
>business with Africa...

blah blah blah... Stop dwelling in the past and start living in the now.

>no matter what way you cut it, Westerners are racist... Westerners are not
>the "good guys" anymore...

And you "sir" are just as racist -as you insist on putting it- as you think
"the westerners" are.

>>2- Ignorance, brought forth from the belief that all (or at least most) of
>>Africa is underdeveloped.
>
>Africa continues to suffer from a world which demands its pound of flesh
>from the current generation for the corruption of the previous decades...
>
>no debt relief has been given to Africa... Africa is held in poverty by
>uncaring greedy Western banks and governments... who extended loans to
>despots during the cold war period in exchange for their alliance against
>communism in Africa...

Yeah, so? Does that make all westerners bad?

>>3- Africa is for a large part a politically unstable continent, that's why
>>many people don't take that continent seriously.
>
>created by Western backing not of democratic government, but of whoever
>would support their cause against communism...
>
>Mobuto Seso Seko of the former Zaire was a classic example of a despot
>installed and backed by the CIA in exchange for his support...
>
>the Western world has raped Africa... 

Yup, and what are _you_ doing about it? Apart from writing all this
off-topic dribble in an ASCII-art newsgroup?

>while you scoff at conspiracy theories that AIDS was invented by the CIA,
>remember that those in charge of these secretive agencies would actually do
>so...

Who the hell are you preaching to? To me? If so, you have absolutely no idea
of what i think, believe of suport. Get of your bloody high horse and 

>>>Annie is only one of many who think like her...
>>>In Britain South Africans are not even allowed to donate blood because they
>>>think we are an AIDS ridden cesspool... which of course is again racist...
>>No, it is fear caused by the many reports about the fast pace AIDS is
>>spreading on the African continent. A lot of those reports come from South
>>Africa, which gives them cause to fear south african blood.
>
>correct... you fear us... on so many levels...
>
>for so long, South Africa was seen as a dangerous place to holiday... until
>9.11...

It still is, and so is the USA and so are dozens of other countries. Deal
with it!
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