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Loopywafflehead ([info]loopywafflehead) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-07-11 13:26:00


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Bitter White South African Wank
This is taken directly from wank_report. Wording belongs to the anon who made the report, not me. I just went o_O and C&P'd.

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I don't know if this is interesting to the global FW audience, but I think it's wanktastic, and it may be amusing to other saffricans. For everyone else, here's some background:

SA has a high crime rate.

SA has been chosen to host the 2010 World Cup.

SA has many bitter inhabitants and expats who used to be in the privileged minority of the population and think that: 1) everything was *wonderful* in the good old days of the apartheid regime, 2) today South Africa is an ANARCHISTIC WAR ZONE where law-abiding citizens live in fear of roving gangs of homicidal maniacs, and 3) the ANC government is i) incompetent, ii) corrupt and iii) in league with the criminals, and is involved in a vast conspiracy to start a RACE WAR and exterminate all whites in a HOLOCAUST of which affirmative action is just the beginning.

(I'm not kidding with the all caps and the hyperbole.)

They annoy those SA dwellers who prefer to discuss the country's problems in a fair and even-handed manner, rather than whipping out the tinfoil hats of ZOMGoppression.

Which brings us to this poorly written, hysterical website (http://www.crimexposouthafrica.co.za/), created to scare away foreign tourists and persuade FIFA not to hold the World Cup here. Its noble goal is to shame the government into Doing Something about all this crime. It gets featured on CNN. The creator only publishes fawning emails of support.

Another SA citizen creates his own blog on the subject and invites everyone to comment.

Explosion!

He gets some sane comments attempting to have a rational discussion. Then the crazies arrive:

you are a disgrace - you should be deeply ashamed of yourself for aiding and abbetting the racist holocaust that blacks are perpetrating in SA

(Okay!)

You ARE living in a dream and no doubt are not married with children.

(Because young whippersnappers don't have families or other loved ones to worry about. This same argument is used about fifty times.)

Unfortunately, by any standards of objective comparison, South Africa is a crime hell hole, in which more people are killed every year than in many of the world's worst war zones.

(Only if you take just the American casualties from the Iraq war while ignoring the estimated Iraqi casualties, as someone helpfully does lower down.)

I would not be surprised if the crime was a political ploy of the ANC to destabilise the country and take the focus of bribary and corruption away from the front seat.

(Of course. That sounds completely plausible.)

I assume you mean by being positive is to pretend South Africa doesn't have a crime problem.

(And now that I've set up my strawman, I don't have to respond to anything you actually wrote. Hooray!)

And my batshit insane favourite:

Addy, you pathetic looser. How do you feel when tourists get raped, murdered, attacked, etc.? Do you celebrate? Maybe masturbate?, etc.

Then, some racists in denial:

Where the white man has been in Africa he brought with him technology, medical help, rule of law. When he left Africa. Every thing went backwards. Please prove me wrong on this.

(Who needs silly luxuries like freedom and equality? What are you ungrateful sods whining about?)

I have been and I have seen and I say VIVA BOEREMAG and those who will follow in their footsteps!

(The Boeremag are right-wing extremists who recently plotted to overthrow the government. The unintentional hilarity of their Fu Manchurian plans is a whole other story.)

Someone starts an anecdote with my mother was being threatened by her garden boy the other day...

He gets called on his terminology, and gets sarcastic (Oh sorry the gentleman that cleans her garden....or her garden executive, and later Enlighten me as I no longer live in SA...what term do YOU use to descibe your garden boy) ...apparently not having heard of the word "gardener".

Later, he or some anonymous guy claims that everyone is secretly racist: If someone can tell me that they love Americans, Afrikaaners, Arabs, Indians, Pakis, Nigeria's, Coloureds, Lebs etc etc equally then they are lying.

In my country, loons grow on trees.

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Thank you to the anon who left this detailed report, and if you show up, we'd love the details of the Fu Manchurian plans!


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[info]shakeandbake
2006-07-11 12:08 pm UTC (link)
The unintentional hilarity of their Fu Manchurian plans is a whole other story.

I enjoy hilarity, unintentional or not.

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[info]spiderflower
2006-07-11 12:43 pm UTC (link)
1) everything was *wonderful* in the good old days of the apartheid regime, 2) today South Africa is an ANARCHISTIC WAR ZONE where law-abiding citizens live in fear of roving gangs of homicidal maniacs, and 3) the ANC government is i) incompetent, ii) corrupt and iii) in league with the criminals, and is involved in a vast conspiracy to start a RACE WAR and exterminate all whites in a HOLOCAUST of which affirmative action is just the beginning

Dad? Uncle Andries? Since when have you guys learnt how to post on the internet?!

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[info]freezer
2006-07-11 12:51 pm UTC (link)
Wow... Change a few references, and that sounds exactly like the bitter old white Americans who long for the "good old days" of the 50s.

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[info]dramedy
2006-07-11 01:27 pm UTC (link)
If someone can tell me that they love Americans, Afrikaaners, Arabs, Indians, Pakis, Nigeria's, Coloureds, Lebs etc etc equally then they are lying.

...*sings a rousing chorus of "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"*

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[info]nicolae
2006-07-11 01:35 pm UTC (link)
I, personally, absolutely adore any and all Nigerias. I was so happy when I found out there was more than one.

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[info]nicolae
2006-07-11 01:34 pm UTC (link)
I'm mostly excited about the next World Cup because I went to high school with this boy who is an AMAZING soccer player, and he's a South African citizen. He's probably not good enough to play for the US team, but since the host nation always gets their team in he might well be good enough to play for South Africa, and then I can be like, "Hey! He thought I was awesome in eleventh grade!"

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[info]melancthe
2006-07-11 01:45 pm UTC (link)
Bitter white South Africans wank frequently and copiously. It makes me boggle when the crazies in my country come out.

What's really sad is that it's far more than just a few idiots on the Internet who still use the term "garden boy" to refer to their gardeners. Or "the girl" to refer to the maid.

And the Boeremag's takeover plans (the standard "we'll take over the news media and military installations, then expel all the people who don't like us") are made even more hilarious by the fact that there are so pathetically few of them, and the plans look like the sort of thing that were hatched over cheap brandy-and-Coke and Chinese takeaways.

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[info]aqua_blurr
2006-07-11 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Was anyone else a little disappointed that "saffricans" didn't refer to African lesbians writing femslash?

There is a difference between stealing for food and murdering 20,000 people a year, violently raping woman and children, stoning people on the N2 and killing farmers.

So, black is the new white and vice versa?

the state is protecting the criminal at all costs. Is it because many of the ANC members chose the path of criminality when they were caught up in the “struggle”?

*ears explode from overwhelming influx of irony*

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[info]jat_sapphire
2006-07-11 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Was anyone else a little disappointed that "saffricans" didn't refer to African lesbians writing femslash?

*raises hand* Me.

Though the magic of rose headbands (from the fashion advice linked upthread) did console me a bit.

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(no subject) - [info]nicolae, 2006-07-11 06:38 pm UTC

[info]doomsday
2006-07-11 05:34 pm UTC (link)
I think these people should read "The Power of One." They will love Peekay and feel very stupid about what they've said!

Okay, they probably won't. But they should.

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[info]greypearl
2006-07-11 07:13 pm UTC (link)
That is one of my favorite movies of all time. Always makes me cry. *sniff*

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(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2006-07-11 08:08 pm UTC

sharonapple
2006-07-11 06:33 pm UTC (link)
I read "unintentionally hilarious Fu Manchurian plans" and imagined a bunch of white supremacists running around and tripping over their long, luxorious mustaches.

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(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Hilarious! Thank you.

- Safrican in South Africa


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[info]nicolae
2006-07-11 06:38 pm UTC (link)
...so, do South African lesbians call themselves sapphricans?

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-11 09:15 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 09:15 pm UTC (link)
I guess I don't see the problem with the term garden boy?? :S
Everything else is incredibly fucked up, though. incredibly.
They had an astronomical crime rate even WITH apartheid in place. and that was AWFUL.

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(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 09:15 pm UTC (link)
P.S- ozone@lj

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Garden boy...
(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 09:53 pm UTC (link)
Possibly you are missing a piece of the cultural puzzle: white people used to call not-white servants old enough to be their grandparents "boy" and "girl". It was extremely patronizing and rude. It's not like "newspaper boy", a term which is usually applied to actual boys. ;)

- confluence

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Re: Garden boy... - (Anonymous), 2006-07-13 06:08 pm UTC
Hooray!
(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Wow, it actually got posted! :D

Immediately after I posted it (after trimming it down to the allowed post length from almost twice that size! Aargh!) I thought it might be too freaky for first-world readers, who would be horrified to see how desensitized we all are to violent crime, and not see the humour in the situation. But apparently not, yay!

Here, for your reading pleasure, is a selection of articles about the Boeremag and their super-cunning plans to overthrow the government (mostly in descending chronological order). It would all be funnier if they hadn't actually managed to kill an innocent bystander with their stupidity. :(

Highlights:
* Blowing stuff (and people) up in order to TRIGGER A RACE WAR!! Because as you know, black and white people in major cities are just itching to kill each other, and are only waiting for a plausible excuse.
* Making all the black people march out of the country along the N1 [a major highway going north]. How a tiny minority of white people would be able to persuade them to do this has been glossed over.
* Making all the Indian people march to Durban [a town known for its high Indian immigrant population] along the N3 [another major highway] to be deported on many, many boats. See above.
* Reserving a building in Johannesburg to house white women involved in a breeding programme to repopulate the country with white people (I have no words).
* Financing all this with the sale of sheep and sunflowers.
* Thinking all of this was a really good idea because of the teachings of kooky seers and prophets.

Two of the accused recently escaped (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1146682081140B265) (they just walked out of court, and nobody noticed), so there may be further exciting developments in the future.

An assortment of possible plots (http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1075830482314B263)
Some buildings they considered blowing up (http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=ct20040130191212241P610150)
Hardcore secret codenames. Arrr! We are so manly! (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1091535485430B263)
Being forced to listen to "Black" music in prison == "psychological torture"! (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&art_id=qw1061218981979B263&set_id=1)
Kooky prophet (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1053082982512B263)
Poisoned oranges (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw109223244174B263)
Another kooky prophet (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1075119662559B263)
Blowing up assorted aircraft (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1098707762857B263)
Civil war for God! (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20030519020753224C380695)
They are upset that people are laughing at them (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1092660302753B263)
The breeding programme. And blowing up Casper De Vries. (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1092142081749B263)
I guess they missed the bit about not killing people... (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20041029041451316C324305)
Blowing up Mandela (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20030320110032319C208241)
Blowing up a Boeing (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1067867821181B263)
The cunning deportation plan (http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw10758117613B263)
Sheep and sunflowers! And also crime. (http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw10759012219B263)
Secret meeting in a strip club (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20031104104155561C946641)
A summary from early on in the trial (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20040804052634739C777076)

- confluence, South African anonymouse

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Re: Hooray!
(Anonymous)
2006-07-11 09:56 pm UTC (link)
OK, whoa, I forgot that link urls get displayed in comments. Sorry for the post of hugeness. :/

- confluence

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Re: Hooray!
[info]chaimonkey
2006-07-11 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Blowing up a Boeing

Shouldn't take much effort there - 1:12 Boeings crash & burn during test flights.

Seriously tho, these guys are batshit. Has anything been decided yet?

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Re: Hooray! - [info]bluenakedlady, 2006-07-12 05:00 pm UTC
Re: Hooray! - [info]hakainokami, 2006-07-13 11:07 am UTC
Re: Hooray!
[info]spawn_of_kong
2006-07-12 02:07 pm UTC (link)
Is it wrong that I actually chuckled more than a little bit while reading this post?
Seriously, most of what I read about the (often extremely high) levels of corruption and violence in African countries leaves me quite depressed, both from a wildlife conservation point of view as well as from the POV of human rights. But these guys, were it not for them actually killing people, sound too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

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Re: Hooray! - (Anonymous), 2006-07-13 06:12 pm UTC

[info]gal_montag
2006-07-12 12:33 am UTC (link)
Hey, maybe I should move over there, sounds like I'd be right at home.

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[info]smo
2006-07-12 04:39 am UTC (link)
When he left Africa. Every thing went backwards. Please prove me wrong on this.

Well, in the case of South Africa, the white man didn't leave.

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pink_lightning
2006-07-12 05:19 am UTC (link)
One of my South African friends used to very cheerfully tell me how batshit insane the Afrikaans racists are and how insane crime has gotten over there.

"I don't know why tourists bother coming anymore. They only seem to wind up dead. You turn on the news and it's like, 'two British women have been raped and murdered'. 'Oh, for fuck's sake! Not again!'"

I'd be pissing myself while our Aussie friend stared at her in horror. She was great. I miss her.

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[info]aerobot
2006-07-12 12:21 pm UTC (link)
My father went to South Africa once for a mining conference, and he rather tactfully told us what it was like AFTER he got back. Ie, giant razorwire fences, never stopping at a red light because of car-jackers, etc. Not to mention how he slowly backed away from the white employees who were glad that AIDS were bumping off more of those black people (seriously).

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