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Apartheid: was it all bad?

November 4, 2009 By admin

Via VICE magazine:

South Africa’s first apartheid-free presidential election is finally here, and to punctuate just how important this shit is, citizens have started a civil war so they can kill one another in its honor.

Political analysts say Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC) will take 70 percent of the 1994 vote, leaving 20 or so other parties to grapple over the remaining 30 (…)

But enough of that facts-and-figures crap. Let’s get to the murdering!

Also?

Grad school types and religious assholes want to convince us that assimilation is mean and racist and makes immigrants betray their cultural roots, but what if they’re just really psyched to live somewhere that isn’t an abject shithole?
 

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