Sure Zimbabwe and many other African countries have issues, but so does every country around the world. The constant perpetual negative cloud that people associate Africa with really denegrates the vast growth and improvements the continent has recently gone through.
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I've had the pleasure of meeting enough sub-Saharan Africans that I can not only personally call bullshit on this, the statement is so nonsensical it reads to me like a claim that the moon is made of Swiss cheese.
http://amren.com/news/2012/04/six-brain-damage-scourges-that... (Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa)
http://amren.com/news/2012/07/things-fall-apart-greg-cochran... (Things Fall Apart: Greg Cochran’s New Theory of the Cause of Racial Differences in IQ)
Of course it has negative connotations. Most people don't like racists. You can't seem to deal with that, and your weasel words make you a coward. Whose respect are you trying to earn (or keep) anyway? I'll tell you something, owning up to it won't lose you any more respect. But at least you'd be less insufferable.
"Racism is generally defined as actions, practices, or beliefs that reflect the racial worldview: the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races". This ideology entails the belief that members of a race share a set of characteristic traits, abilities, or qualities, that traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral characteristics are inherited, and that this inheritance means that races can be ranked as innately superior or inferior to others."
Why are you arguing about this? Your homework is to go out and tell everyone you know that you're an unrepentant racist.
edit: I don't really love your website.
To be fair...
When it was called Rhodesia...
They also hung black guys from flying military helicopters with piano wire.
So they can live in a "...fucking shithole...", or they can live in a "...fucking shithole..." where they are hung from helicopters with piano wire.
They say "...the good old days, weren't always good..." That rule DEFINITELY applies here.
I'm afraid the most we can do for you at this point is to delete your account and to wish for a good beating in your near future.
I don't work for PG and I don't understand why you take offense.
You said: "low-IQ humans require brutality to understand when they've done wrong".
Your IQ is low in relation to the HN average and the majority of HN has agreed that you're doing wrong (see votes on your comments).
Do you practice what you preach or does your "logic" only apply to people of a different skin color?
I can't believe this just happened.
And capitalizing white as if that accident of birth should be an honorific like an accomplishment? That sounds kind of unhinged.
"At any given moment, the [Overton] "window" includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
The US government has generally admitted to torture, in its "fight against terrorism". Given that the US government wasn't replaced, even partially, or its policies changed in any significant way, through the massive outrage of its citizenry, I am guessing that most people agree with "something as appalling as torture", today, in Western Civilization, as long as it's done for "all the right reasons".
EDIT: I didn't notice this the first time around.
"And capitalizing white as if that accident of birth should be an honorific like an accomplishment? That sounds kind of unhinged."
Why don't you use that line on jews, who insist on "J" simply and entirely due to the mother's religion? They get very upset when you don't capitalize the "j", no matter where the word appears. Even the spellchecker in my Google Chrome browser underlines "jews" in red when I write it in all lowercase. If the power which jews possess is significant enough that it reaches deep down into the bowels of my web browser, then I think that I can get away with referring to the originators and guardians of Western Civilization as White.
You might find it even more unhinged that I usually refer to non-Whites as "unWhite", and I try not to use it at the beginning of a sentence, so as to avoid having to write it with a "U'. Likewise, I avoid using "jews" at the beginning of a sentence. Also, I refer to neo-nazis as "nazis", who are most of the ones you see today, mere pretenders, and I save "Nazis" for those, such as myself, who I think deserve the capitalization. Therefore, "White" doesn't mean every person with pale skin, so, really, it's not about honoring someone because of an accident of birth.