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Save Darfur is a PR scam to justify the next US oil and resource wars in Africa
Joe Bonanno:
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--- Quote from: Abd. Inf. presents... RIP Lucky Dube on February 24, 2008, 09:33:47 AM ---The rest is just to scare white Christians, who are easy to manipulate by fear and worry.
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Much unlike non-white Muslims, who are never hyped up about something.
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haha. lest we forget a certain danish cartoonist?
when it rains it pours:
--- Quote from: Abd. Inf. presents... RIP Lucky Dube on February 24, 2008, 09:33:47 AM ---Word... this Darfur thing is the biggest lie. I've seen white women come into work at my job all worried and concerned, jumping online to all these "save Darfur" websites. They have no idea what is really happening.
The real story...
Foreign agents started arming rebel's in the South and encouraged uprisings against the Central government. Tribal forces suppressed the rebels in the same fashion that Abraham Lincoln put down Southern rebellion in the United States. The Central government looked on and tried to hold their country together.
The End.
The rest is just to scare white Christians, who are easy to manipulate by fear and worry.
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word. cats in all these colleges and high schools be having shirts save darfur and shit.
Kill:
--- Quote from: Highway to the Danger Zone on February 24, 2008, 12:55:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: 7even on February 24, 2008, 10:03:16 AM ---
--- Quote from: Abd. Inf. presents... RIP Lucky Dube on February 24, 2008, 09:33:47 AM ---The rest is just to scare white Christians, who are easy to manipulate by fear and worry.
--- End quote ---
Much unlike non-white Muslims, who are never hyped up about something.
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haha. lest we forget a certain danish cartoonist?
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is it actually possible that his wrecking-ball irony was lost on you?
I've just skimmed through the article now, but those points seem to be valid, but it all is, unsurprisingly, no surprise. The Darfur crisis is a tangled web, but the US interests in labelling the war a genocide are questionable; what the Northern Sudanese and the hypocritical government that backs them up do down there is indeed quite hideous though, so calling it a genocide as such is not a problem, the interventionist policies and the economic background really are problems though. And the CAR comparison's only fair, that country's been in shambles (that's a sugarcoated way of putting it, really) for years and no one seems to give a fuck. It's really sad. Central Africa's the most difficult region in the world (by the way, 7even: Sorry if it looks like I'm tryina be a smartass, but I'm really just curious because you said West Africa which Sudan and Congo don't seem to belong to for me: are you referring to any other events taking place like west of Nigeria? Sad as it is, it's hard to keep track...)
7even:
I was not referring to any special recent event. That Sierra Leone - related diamond stuff is probably the one thing that I would mention if I was to reduce Africa's fucked up-ness to 1 thing. (Which is almost impossible to do, I know)
Of course other parts of Africa are fucked up as hell also. In fact, I am not willing to read much about that because it's one of those things that are too saddening to "enjoy", and too unreachable to truly grasp. So I'm not even trying to read into all the more or less recent events in Central Africa.
Kill:
--- Quote from: 7even on February 24, 2008, 03:28:34 PM ---I was not referring to any special recent event. That Sierra Leone - related diamond stuff is probably the one thing that I would mention if I was to reduce Africa's fucked up-ness to 1 thing. (Which is almost impossible to do, I know)
Of course other parts of Africa are fucked up as hell also. In fact, I am not willing to read much about that because it's one of those things that are too saddening to "enjoy", and too unreachable to truly grasp. So I'm not even trying to read into all the more or less recent events in Central Africa.
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ok, true. But Sierra Leone's moooore or less (in Africa terms) stable now, right? That was one fucked up thing, but have you seen Hotel Rwanda? ........... and yes, your point about the whole thing being both saddening and unreachable is absolutely correct, personally i do think that it's good (an obscure kind of "good" though, admittedly) to have at least an idea of what's going on down there, but my education on Africa is nothing i'd go out and brag about
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