Not going to have me disagree, I think decolonisation was a mistake and the British Empire should have federalised instead so they didn't fall for the self deprecation of 'we were bad people that need to repent' mentality and the colonies had steady reliable leadership.
Colonization was a mistake too. It was predicated on utopian ideas of uplifting the natives similar to modern nation-building, but it only succeeded in opening the door to racial grievance and foreign immigration. 19th century Europeans had the willpower to enact the project, but lacked the intellectual integrity to fend off the Jewish hucksters like Boaz that undermined them at the turn of the 20th.
I'd say the most successful version was in two different areas. Somaliland in that they have stable and fully functioning country despite their neighbours and an international community unwilling to recognise them. Their success was because of the hands off approach leaving the tribes structure intact.
And Hong Kong pre China takeover, if you say I have a British Empire bias well, all the others especially the French ones either had or are having coups and civil wars
Thanks, that's another important point I forgot. European magical thinking (or Machivellian strategy, hard to say which is more influential) about multiethnic and multiracial states caused tons of grief in both the colonial and postcolonial periods.
Well, I guess you could say that SA learned some things from Zimbabwe. You don't just throw out the white farmers and give the blacks their farms; you put in place race quotas for the white farmers, and threaten their incomes if they don't hire enough black people to suit your taste.
Last paragraph makes it seem like it's a South African regulation.
South African companies have been encouraged to adopt Black-empowerment plans to comply with government policies aimed at redressing financial inequality stemming from the apartheid era.
Ending apartheid was a mistake.
There. I said it.
Not going to have me disagree, I think decolonisation was a mistake and the British Empire should have federalised instead so they didn't fall for the self deprecation of 'we were bad people that need to repent' mentality and the colonies had steady reliable leadership.
No decolonized country is better off now than it was when it was colonized.
Colonization was a mistake too. It was predicated on utopian ideas of uplifting the natives similar to modern nation-building, but it only succeeded in opening the door to racial grievance and foreign immigration. 19th century Europeans had the willpower to enact the project, but lacked the intellectual integrity to fend off the Jewish hucksters like Boaz that undermined them at the turn of the 20th.
I'd say the most successful version was in two different areas. Somaliland in that they have stable and fully functioning country despite their neighbours and an international community unwilling to recognise them. Their success was because of the hands off approach leaving the tribes structure intact.
And Hong Kong pre China takeover, if you say I have a British Empire bias well, all the others especially the French ones either had or are having coups and civil wars
Thanks, that's another important point I forgot. European magical thinking (or Machivellian strategy, hard to say which is more influential) about multiethnic and multiracial states caused tons of grief in both the colonial and postcolonial periods.
That would have only delayed the subversion.
Both England and the Dutch suck at invading places.
That's my hot take. Problem occurred long before apartheid was even a thing.
They just reversed it
Such a based comment...from that username.
Any white is "too white." Remember these people look at Haiti as a good thing.
How much is too much?
Well, I guess you could say that SA learned some things from Zimbabwe. You don't just throw out the white farmers and give the blacks their farms; you put in place race quotas for the white farmers, and threaten their incomes if they don't hire enough black people to suit your taste.
The article is very unclear about whether this is a South African regulation only, or if this is something the EU and UK implemented.
It's not even that easy given the current context.
You'd struggle to pick which one of the three was more virulently anti-white, would you not?
Last paragraph makes it seem like it's a South African regulation.
Thanks for posting this here. I briefly saw it on T_D but it was quickly buried like most interesting threads there are.