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Tuesday 21 November 2017

A rose by any other name...

If anybody ever asks me why I want to leave South Africa, here's a simple answer.

Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Oh but that's not so bad, my more liberal readers will cry (those not in South Africa). Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, social change, blah blah blah (I'm allowed to be flippant about it if I've lived under this flavour of 'democracy' for 23 years).

Yes very well, but let me present Exhibit C:
And that's it, don't you see?

Firstly, if you want to do it, just come out and say it. Say "no whites welcome", why not. You think that dressing it up with other names makes it better, or somehow politically correct?

Secondly, there's the very key fact that white South Africans make up less than 10% of the population. Nobody's exactly sure how much less, but as that graph demonstrates white South Africans are emigrating, dying or just fading into irrelevance.

Which would be fine, except when you get continual reminders in public job advertisements like the ones I've shared above that if you're white you shouldn't even dare apply for some jobs.

WTF, really? It's like holding a townhall meeting, and then putting up a sign "freckled redhead Asians not welcome". Is it really necessary? How hard would it be for recruiters to just ignore applications from less than 10% of the population (I sure as hell know it'd make me feel better).

Instead South Africa is this country where race has been weaponized. A lot of people will say a lot about reverse racism, but the truth is that the recruiters who posted those job ads may well be white themselves (makes you wonder - were there any Jews helping the Nazis run the gas chambers?).

And that's just one of the reasons why I want to leave, but probably the biggest. The country has become like a big mean bully who keeps punching the little kid and then trying to make out that the little kid is running into his fist all the time.

2 comments:

  1. "(makes you wonder - were there any Jews helping the Nazis run the gas chambers?"

    Yes, unfortunately, they've been. But the Sonderkommando members did so while trying to live a little bit more, usually only a few months.
    If so, are you implying those white recruiters are doing the same? If so, once more, why aren't they rising up to the arms?!
    After all, even in some death camps the prisoners revolted and died fighting...

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  2. Why indeed. Because like you and me, recruiters need to eat, and if their client asks them to procure child prostitutes they will most likely do so. It's not just them. How about the HR managers at the corporates, or the BEE auditors, or the government officials themselves? It reminds one of a noose that grows tighter the more you struggle against it ... and just stays on if you do nothing as well. Breaking out of the BEE mindset is South Africa's largest challenge, and because it's just targeted at a 10% minority nobody gives a damn. Who cares about a bunch of white people moaning about something these days, even if every tannie and oomie could get mobilised? Apartheid fell due to numbers as much as diplomacy. BEE won't fall as long as it continues to convenience the majority somehow.

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