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Voxwik posted...

You know I honestly didn't expect a hyper-racist topic blaming the persecution of white people in Zimbabwe for all its problems (you know... instead of the fact its dictator and rulers were/are moronic madmen). In this world of straw man arguments (the lie no one stands up for racism against white people) and alternative facts I shouldn't be surprised by overt racism, but I still am.

It annoys me when I'm the one who gets accused of deflection and whataboutism whenever I question why white Western opponents of Mugabe seem to mainly (or exclusively) focus on the plight of besieged white Zimbabwean farmers as if the tens of thousands of black lives that Mugabe's forces wiped out during the Gukurahundi campaign in Matabeleland (for example) don't also count to stain his record. "See, you liberal racists just don't care about racism against whites!" is guff I've often heard from people who don't care about any victims in the whole of Africa except white ones, but think they're uncovering some major double standard and that they're being noble for giving a voice to forgotten victims.

Nothing should stop anyone from raising their voice and fist against a gross injustice -- no matter to whom, or by whom, that injustice is done. But when we're talking about a continent that makes up a fifth of the planet's landmass and is home to 1.2 billion of its people or 16% of the global population, I guess it's inevitable that people are going to prioritize when they pick and choose their causes -- for whatever reason. Just try to resist the temptation to make skin colour alone the basis of it.
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