zimbabwe and the white farmers

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: AZGamer

Originally posted by: Pooteh
the UN must be outraged yea right. time to send troops in and bust some heads i say you know.. to be fair. two wrongs don't make a right eh? course we're staying out that wuss bush.

No need for US to get involved - the country in question is messed up enough, US intervention would just set up a puppet government that would be toppled, in say, a year or two.

You need to do a little geneological research and add whatever country your ancestors hailed from to your "stupid imports" list. You rarely have anything worthwhile to add to this forum and the above gem is no exception.

Actually, there have been many European discoveries, inventions, and imports, including posters like me. Africa has contributed? Poverty, Aids, political activists, umm.... nothing useful.

Hold on, I can sense this coming. You, with your lack of arguements, will make an ad-hom attack and then say "Arguements aren't needed to discredit you".... right.

Find one flaw in my reasoning, and debate it. Or we can go back to "You Teh Idiot", as every similar thread goes to.

Hehe....I only have to find one flaw? That's too easy. Here's a few flaws for you.

If you want to go waaay back, everyone is from Africa originally, so there's your first "contribution".

Europe: discoveries, inventions, imports, racist assholes like you. All true. Europe also produced: Hitler, the bubonic plague, both world wars, Catholicism, the Crusades......need I go on? Additionally, consider for a moment what Africa and South America might be like today if greedy Europeans hadn't raped them both as soon as they figured out how to get there hundreds of years ago.

I must also address your "imports" comment as directed as Sharpton and others. Yes, they are idiots. However, as their ancestors have more than likely been in the US at least as long as yours (if not longer) they are no more an "import" than you are. They are Americans.....they just happen to have brown skin....which seems to be the crux of your "issues".

One other point I feel I must make. Your ancestors (you're from VA, correct?) felt so strongly about their "imports" that they fought an extremely bloody war over the issue a bit over a hundred years ago. I guess now that you don't own them any more, you'd prefer they all "went back to africa", huh?

In all seriousness: there is a book you might want to read called Germs, Guns, and Steel that deals with the evolution of various human societies around the world and offers theories as to why they developed (or didn't). It might offer you some insight into why a continent like Africa, which had the biggest "head start" with regard to humanity, is currently such a disaster area. It's a pretty dense read, but very interesting.

Fausto

 

[Mani]

Wow, looks like the closet klanners of ATOT are out in full force.

 

[AZGamer]

Quick reply time (have to go out):

might be like today if greedy Europeans hadn't raped them both as soon as they figured out how to get there hundreds of years ago.

If it hadn't been for colonialism, Africa would have no modern economy, modern farming methods, even modern airports. Look at how Egypt, a colonized country, and Ethiopia, a non-colonized country, comapre.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: AZGamer
Quick reply time (have to go out):

might be like today if greedy Europeans hadn't raped them both as soon as they figured out how to get there hundreds of years ago.

If it hadn't been for colonialism, Africa would have no modern economy, modern farming methods, even modern airports. Look at how Egypt, a colonized country, and Ethiopia, a non-colonized country, comapre.

This would be the same Egypt that somehow managed to construct one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world? Somehow I think they were doing just fine prior to any colonization.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: AZGamer
Quick reply time (have to go out):

might be like today if greedy Europeans hadn't raped them both as soon as they figured out how to get there hundreds of years ago.

If it hadn't been for colonialism, Africa would have no modern economy, modern farming methods, even modern airports. Look at how Egypt, a colonized country, and Ethiopia, a non-colonized country, comapre.

Gosh, that's funny....China had no colonialism to speak of and they, despite all the human rights abuses and other mayhem, are on the verge of sending men to space. Go figger.