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In both the liberal and right-wing reaction to and subsequent commentary on the passing of Nelson Mandela, there has been (perhaps predictably) no shortage of hypocrisy.
Of these uncountable strands, there are two dominant fallacies which themselves give momentum to all the rest:
The first is found on the right-wing, and in particular amongst its White Nationalist faction. Members of this tendency seem to find no logical problem in defending the right of Dutch people to settle in the ancestral lands of the Zulu, while at the same time protesting the right of Zulu (and any other kind of Sub-Saharan African) to settle in Rotterdam. For such people it would seem, the mere fact of being European serves as a kind of universal passport; a transcendent liberty to settle, disperse, re-arrange, conquer and roam, without moral regard for any other tribe or hue.
On the Left meanwhile, a strange hypocrisy of the opposite kind can be felt, namely the idea that Dutch people have no business asserting themselves in Johannesburg, but that the Africanisation/Islamisation of the Netherlands is perfectly OK. Zulu and Nguni men and woman should not only be free to settle in Amsterdam, but should be allowed to feel as Dutch as the people who have always lived there, and furthermore, if their birth-rates condemn the Dutch to the dispossession of their ancestral land then well… if you snooze you lose…
Both of these points of view involve ridiculous errors of logic. Neither of them, hemmed in by self-contradiction, can move an inch either side. We shouldn’t argue with them therefore, but we can and should replace them with sound alternatives:
The only consistent and honest positions on South Africa are the following:
1. The White race is so crushingly superior that they can do whatever they damn well please. Therefore South Africa should be governed and organized by Afrikaners.
2. The White race is inherently demonic and therefore should not be allowed to settle in Africa, but (given the innate evil of the honky) all Africans have the right to settle in Europe just to make sure Whites behave themselves.
3. The Dutch people are not indigenous to South Africa and should return to the Netherlands. By the same principle, the Africans currently in the Netherlands should return to Africa.
4. The exchange of peoples from Europe to Africa and vice versa is a fact of history. Both Europeans and Africans have the right to settle in either continent insofar as their presence is consented to by the native population. People should be free to live in voluntary segregation, or to inter-mix. The issue should be left to human (not political) agency.
Personally, I would pick number 4. You might choose differently. But whatever your view, hypocrisy demeans us all. We’d do well to avoid it.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
Position four makes sense to me.
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Me too.
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Excellent blog post, Defend, but I would add some things: 1) The Afrikaaners started farms and they made the country not only capable of feeding its population in an area of the world where famine is often just around the corner, it became a food exporter. South Africa was a “first world” country due to the Afrikaaners and the English. Now that the hideous Apartheid instituted by the whites is over, the Apartheid by the blacks has begun. Daily murders of white farmers, government control of their farms and the tremendous increase in violent crime not just against whites but more often against blacks by blacks has left the country circling the drain and I would not be surprised if it followed the path of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe — changing from a food exporter to one where people are starving because they have murdered the food producers and destroyed the farms. South Africa today has one of the highest rape and murder rates in the world. Its former first lady, Winnie Mandela, was a proud participant of the “neclacing” policy. Rapists in South Africa are proud of their behavior and consider it their right. This includes rape of children which is seen as a cure for AIDS.
Nelson Mandela was a good friend of Gadafi, Castro, Saddam Hussein, Arafat and just about every other murderous dictator. These friends of his were not liberators of the populations they ruled with an iron fist — they were egotistical and sadistic thugs who were in it for the money and power.
Your point about Europeans feeling like they had the right to go wherever they wanted and usurp territory is valid. But they created an infrastructure, built roads, schools, hospitals, factories and industries where there were none. These institutions not only benefitted the Europeans but the native Africans too. I suspect that the European presence of generations ago was welcomed much like the Chinese presence in Africa is welcomed today. The Chinese are not kind or benevolent — but they do provide jobs, investment capital and expertise — something which Africa cannot provide on its own. As for the Africans in Europe — they come there to escape the misery of their own countries and cultures and — like all immigrants — recreate the very situations from which they tried so hard to escape.
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