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From: rjn@duke.UUCP (R. James Nusbaum)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: South Africa terrorizes Souther
Message-ID: <8674@duke.duke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 00:09:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  5 00:09:51 1986
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Reply-To: rjn@duke.UUCP (R. James Nusbaum)
Organization: Duke University, Durham NC
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In article <117200159@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>[rjn@duke.UUCP ] [/* ---- "Re: South Africa terrorizes Souther" ---- */]
>>In article <8143@watrose.UUCP> gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit) writes:
>[...]
>>>I agree, but there is no way that you can convince me that a bomb placed
>>>in a dustbin in a shopping mall or fast food restaurant that is not
>>>even close to a military base, is not a blatant act of terrorism.
>
>>And there is no way, given the circumstances, that you  can  con-
>>vince me that it is. The white South Africans who do not actively
>>oppose apartheid are supporting it by inaction if nothing else. I
>>have the same contempt for them as I do for the Americans who sat
>>back and let us get involved in Vietnam.
>
>And *contempt* is sufficient justification for tearing them
>into pieces?
>

I said I have contempt for them, but I'm not the one blowing them to
pieces.  I imagine that many black South Africans have considerably
more than contempt for their white oppressors.

>>As a supposedly democratic country (at least if  you're  white)
>>all white South Africans are directly or indirectly responsible
>>for their governments actions. They should be  actively  fighting
>>alongside the blacks for equal rights and justice.
>
>Under penalty of violent death? Babies, too, should be actively
>fighting, under the same penalty? Finally, how do you know
>some of those blown up in a mall *are* not actively fighting etc.?
>
>		Jan Wasilewsky

How quick you all are to criticize the ANC, and how slow to criticize
the white government.  What about the school children shot in the back
by security forces?  I question the ability of many people on the net
to equate a very small number of white lives with the thousands of blacks
of all ages and sexes who have been killed over the years.

Jim Nusbaum





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