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Dry, the beloved country
- biztos 9y agoThe very witty title of the article is a reference to "Cry, the Beloved Country"[0], a famous South African novel from 1948 dealing with the racist social structures leading to Apartheid. (It deals with other things too). It's a great book and I would recommend it to anyone, even if you're not particularly interested in South Africa. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country [edit: typos]
- bsder 9y agoOne of the most interesting things I remember about "Cry, the Beloved Country" was feeling as though the book had a rhythm.
- rjeli 9y agogreat story, thank you for posting
- bob44534 9y agoCould have been a better article if the author had left out the unnecessary racist tilt. Whilst I'm sure there are those white South Africans who are emigrating to a more 'white' country, but there are many more who simply want to move to a country where they don't fear someone breaking into their house at night and burning them with irons and hot water until they give up their assumed fortunes. To be racist in response to racism is merely responding with the same original ignorance.
- dade_ 9y agoSouth Africans, black and white are leaving for better job opportunities and sick of corruption and poor governance.
- pjc50 9y agoThe "assumed fortunes" are only there because of the land and labour stolen from the locals through violence and torture.
- sykh 9y agoAssuming this is true it does not negate what the person you responded to wrote. It is rational for a person to try to leave a country they feel is not safe.
- bob44534 9y agoThat would be a perspective held by the few, a perspective devoid of common sense and fueled by a need to justify violent retribution for the acts of wicked people who are no longer here.
- fishtank 9y agoYou know you have a weak point when you rely on "my interlocutor has an unpopular opinion" and "my interlocutor just lacks common sense" as means of argument.
- bob44534 9y agoJust so I don't misunderstand, you are saying I have a weak argument? Do you believe that the perspective of white people holding fortunes in their houses is widely held and that violent acts of crime to redistribute this wealth are justified?
- stronglikedan 9y agoIt appears that they're attempting to apply Socrate's quote, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser", to invalidate your argument, but they are failing to realize that "devoid of common sense" is not an insult or slander, much like those that fail to realize the same about being called ignorant when they argue out of ignorance.
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- atomical 9y ago> The whole mood was contagious. My first night, I openly gagged when my friend Paul put his hands into my dirty shower water to scoop it out for the toilet. But a day or two into my trip, when I opened a friend’s guest toilet lid to a turd, I nearly squealed with glee. I have never been so thrilled to see a previously deposited piece of shit in a toilet I myself hoped to take a crap in. It might be time to rethink happiness.