One has to read this article more than once to realize it is not a fucking satirical caricature but a "heartfelt" defense of the indefensible --
The conquest of South Africa by both the Afrikaners and the British was an invasion with massacre after massacre following one upon the other --- if the Zulu slaughtered by the Boers at the Battle of Blood River and those defeated by the British decades later had won, there would not have been an Apartheid State --- just as if Tecumseh had beaten William Henry Harrison, there might have been a very different "America" created in the 19th century --- settler imperialism was a crime against humanity and this ridiculous posturing by the journalist reveals how sensitive the intellectual defenders of those conquests are ---- The painting in question is not being defaced, not being torn down --- it is being CONTEXTUALIZED so that people who see it can understand the true history it is depicting -- UGH! On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 3:28 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Direct from the "Axis of Resistance", colonial garbage. > > https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510147-queen-painting-zulu-rorke-drift/ > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4665): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4665 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79111759/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
