48 Replies to “I Blame Colonialism”

  2. .
    Africa is on this planet for one reason only, to tell the world how not to run a continent.
    The USA has a Kenyan in the white house. You can already see what’s happening.
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  5. Idi Amin where are you?
    How quaint, next I suppose the muttonheads among us will extol the virtues of building a temple to Molech.
    I thought child sacrifice was a ‘barbaric’ practice.
    But as Alain notes you need a “womb with a view”.
    But seeing that it is Easter Monday, tell ’em to send their practices “shrieking and wailing, straight back to HELL”.
    And I might add in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  9. Yeah who knows hey arkay? Lets take moral relativism to it’s conclusion.
    You can’t legislate morality, because the killer may be a murderer…
    Maybe we should extend that logic and pile them higher and deeper.
    Y’all have a nice day.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  10. This would only surprise an ignoramus completely ignorant of History and Anthropology: An Anthropology student, for example.

  11. Not much real progress since David Livingston….
    The arab slave traders use AK’s and drive SUVs…
    The despotic, homicidal leaders now speak english and have University Degrees….and are still cannibals….

  13. Is Morgataler (Dr. Death, in Canada) a member of this child killing cult? Did he study in Africa?

  14. Witchcraft is a reality in Uganda. When I was a young child, I lived in an apartment building in London, ON, while my father was attending seminary at the university there.
    Our neighbours in the building were an Anglican bishop and his family who had fled Idi Amin’s regime. He had a particular hatred and fear of the Christian church, and claimed to be a witch himself.
    Even though I was a small child and was excluded from the adult conversation, I absorbed enough of the talk of the horrors, large and small that he visited on his people to make a lifelong and surprisingly deep impression on me.
    However, I learned that while Amin was an evil man, he was not an innovator. The superstition, fear, and horror of witchcraft have been endemic there for a long time – they simply went underground while the country was under British rule. The church is working to combat it, but they get little support from western nations that are largely incredulous that such a problem could exist at all.
    There is a tendency in the “enlightened and multicultural” west to assume that simply because you can buy African art and free-trade coffee, that somehow means that your own culture and values must be equally present in the rest of the world.

  15. Witchcraft is a reality in Uganda. When I was a young child, I lived in an apartment building in London, ON, while my father was attending seminary at the university there.
    Our neighbours in the building were an Anglican bishop and his family who had fled Idi Amin’s regime. Idi Amin had a particular hatred and fear of the Christian church, and claimed to be a witch himself.
    Even though I was a small child and was excluded from the adult conversation, I absorbed enough of the talk of the horrors, large and small that he visited on his people to make a lifelong and surprisingly deep impression on me.
    However, I learned that while Amin was an evil man, he was not an innovator. The superstition, fear, and horror of witchcraft have been endemic there for a long time – they simply went underground while the country was under British rule. The church is working to combat it, but they get little support from western nations that are largely incredulous that such a problem could exist at all.
    There is a tendency in the “enlightened and multicultural” west to assume that simply because you can buy African art and free-trade coffee, that somehow means that your own culture and values must be equally present in the rest of the world.

  17. Relax Hans, it was supposed to be sarcastic.
    Guess I failed again in my feeble attempts at humour.

  18. @ arkay:
    I suspected as much, but if you dress up as a witchdoctor other than for a Halloween party we may have to begin worrying…
    next time use a smiley, exclamation or question mark…this behaviour was lampooned in the song below:
    Witch Doctor – Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgOlqinH7A
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  19. Black Mamba @ 2:34 PM, how true. How true!! In my undergraduate career I majored in both history and anthropology. I came to the history part of it a bit late, after I had been brainwashed by anthro-apologist-studies, and found the real truth, or at least as close as you can get to it, was through the study of what actually happens in the real world, in other words, history. Although, anthropology does help to interpret the whys and hows of history. It’s a no-brainer to figure out why stone age people haven’t got a hope in he!! when up against industrialized nations.

  20. Molech indeed.
    G-d/Bible says to stop child sacrifice, stop witchcraft, stop sorcery, stop paganism.
    The Old Testament and Prophets is basically an account of the struggle to move away from paganism and idol worship.
    Modern secular humanists tend to think that Bible believers are superstitious fools clinging to old wives’ tales. In fact it is the Bible that halts superstition and promotes (among other things) rationalism. Early scientists were religious as they wanted to try to understand G-d’s physical laws.
    channeling Ann Coulter: we need to kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  21. Louise – as you know, the Patron Saint of Anthropology is Margaret Mead, who as far as I can tell simply made everything up to fit her hippy-dip theories.
    When I was taking Anthropology, they not only subjected us to the usual relativist indoctrination, they also just flat-out lied. I was always a cynic, but I did actually come away believing that, for example, cannibalism had only ever been practiced rarely, in highly ritualized contexts (funerals etc.), with extreme distaste, as it were, and that noone had ever been killed for the purpose of being eaten. Hah! The Hawai’ians ate anyone they could get their mitts on, and lets not even get started on Idi Amin (who BTW as far as I know was somewhere between a tribal witchcraft practitioner and a nominal Muslem; remember he died in Saudi Arabia)…

  24. …according to the head of the country’s Anti-Human Sacrifice Taskforce the crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity.

    You mean just like in Canada? It’s a good thing we have a recession now!

  25. Aaron@2:46PM: “I got most of today’s entries off Drudge and hours before.”
    And how was the discussion there? The profundity of your comment suggests you need more than a few hours of a head start! 😉

  26. Black Mamba, I also had a real issue with the non-Western focus of anthropology, as if people from and of European decent and their cultures were something not worthy of equal study. Excuses were reserved for all those other people.

  29. A friend of mine who is native to Ghana also speaks of the witchcraft practiced in his home land. As a child the village witch was used as a threat to keep small children from doing bad things.
    After he became a Christian he lost some of the fear of the witch but you don’t have to push very hard to find it again.

  30. I know this will come as a shock to you Aaron, but yes – I actually utilize news aggregaters to find news stories. It’s unconventional, for sure. But it’s what I do.

  31. Eating children is a life choice. Just ask Dr. Phil?
    To some people the eating of long pig is a human right. Jennifer Lynch would probably understand.
    On a serious note in Canada before the Black Robes or missionaries. The Natives lived in constant fear. Self mutilation was the norm. Women would cut of fingers in appeasement to so called Ghosts.
    Men would go through rituals of self flagellation
    by many means.
    The people lived in constant fear of spirits.
    Christianity changed all that & even gave them a written language of their own tongues.
    Look how our culture is going with tattoo’s & such. In past times those where wards against magic ( It doesn’t matter if you believe its stupid, the people who do not, don’t).
    To us its decoration. To most of the World its serious business. Its why the Romans forbade fortune tellers & magicians. Inevitably murder follows these cults if wide spread.

  32. “I got most of today’s entries 1) off Drudge and 2) hours before.”
    How clever, you can surf the web.
    We like to see it here with Kate’s commentary and we get to comment too.
    You miss the point entirely
    Bye

  33. Margaret Mead was a charletan of the first order. She was big on eugenics and population control.
    As far as the evils of colonialism….I recall the outrages comitted by the British….
    Suttee the practice of burning the window on the funeral pyre was stopped by the British.
    The General involved was sensitive and respectful of culture.
    When he received a delegation protesting the banning of the practice….the delegation protested it was an important part of their culture.
    He responded….that he respected that and that “British custom was to hang those who burnt women to death.”
    “Go ahead and build your pyre and I shall have a gallows built beside it.”
    Suttee stopped.

  34. The Hawai’ians ate anyone they could get their mitts on, and lets not even get started on Idi Amin (who BTW as far as I know was somewhere between a tribal witchcraft practitioner and a nominal Muslem; remember he died in Saudi Arabia)…
    It’s well-documented that Amin practiced cannibalism and had a frig stocked with the body parts of his enemies.
    I know pork isn’t halal. Is eating people OK?

  35. I heard rumours about witchcraft / child sacrifice in South Africa as well. I don’t know if it was true or just lore. Weren’t infants getting raped in attempts to cure HIV there as well?

  36. Idi Amin’s rumours of cannibalism have not been substantiated. I’ve read that he preferred to feed his victims to his crocodiles.
    Another famous African ’emperor’, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, was actually known for eating people. Which shows he was indeed mad, considering everyone in his country was a rack of bones.
    Those were the simpler days, when Africa’s problems could be blamed on some colorful madmen. Besides Amin and Bokassa, they had Charles Taylor, Mobutu, Mengistu, Abacha, etc. Now who’s left? Mugabe. Must be lonely in the madhouse.
    By the way, Idi Amin’s official title was His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. Not even Barack Obama tops that.

  37. Donna V. – “I know pork isn’t halal. Is eating people OK?”
    Gosh, you’ll have to contact your local Imam for that kind of info.
    Remember now, I did say “nominal” – perhaps Kate will lend you her dictionary if she’s through with it (sorry, are we arguing? I can’t tell).

  39. Jared Diamond should have kept the Europeans magic biomes a secret…
    now people in bad-biomes-Unganda are willing to kill children in a ritual they hope will get them prosperity and a why not , a nice European biome which will make them magically discover the wheel invent airplanes, cell phones, and suddenly become civilized…
    Yep, I blame Jared Diamond.
    He should have never let them know we pulled rockets, and computers out of thin blue air because of our good biomes.

  40. Friend of USA:
    Don’t be too cocky. Seventy short years ago ‘lucky biome’ Europe was a bloodbath that would make today’s worst African nightmare look like a Sunday school.
    No race or nation has a monopoly on savagery.

  41. One more thing:
    You need to move away from subsistence agriculture before inventing rockets and similar things. That was Diamond’s point.
    Europeans were not the only ‘lucky’ ones, other civilizations in the Middle East, India and China did invent many things way before Europeans did. For example, while Gutenberg is credited in the West for inventing the movable character printing press, the Chinese had been using for 700 years.

  42. Friend of the USA, they must have been sacrificing children because of the lack of animals to domesticate, or short growing season, or is it long growing season?
    GreenNeck, seventy years ago, some in Europe devolved into paganism, and savagery followed.
    Black Mamba and Louise, I also studied anthropology at university many moons ago – take home message was whitepeople/Christianity bad, everything “native” good – like Cameron’s Avatar

  43. I know this might sound wierd, but there are serious studies going on now regarding parasites and their ability to cause schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome, bi-polar disorders, and a host of other dissociation and depersonalization disorders. Parasites are rampant in African countries, perhaps there is a link. You take a person without much of a conscience and mix it with a parasite forming cysts in their brain and there is bound to be some seriously bizarre and evil behaviour.

  44. It takes a village to raze a child.
    Posted by: Oz at April 5, 2010 1:31 PM
    awesome….. 🙂

  45. As bloody as WWI & WWII were there is no evidence that the protagonists were ritualistically sacrificing and eating their own children. It is not to deny that Europeans were savage but, simply, that there is no moral equivalence. The difference lies in the fact that European Christians gave up the practice of sacrificing their children. What remained in Europe was a mere metaphor of such sacrifice, the crucifixion.

  46. no-one,
    that parasite theory sounds plausible to me, I’d be interested in links if you have any.
    …
    and to all the Diamond’s »groupies»,
    Jared Diamond’s theory serves an obvious purpose;
    Discredit white man/western civilization for all its fantastic achievements…
    make guilt-ridden white people feel less guilty and make colored people from primitive culture feel better about themselves…
    just like now they give a trophy to all kids who played in the hockey team, not the ones who scored goals or anything like that;
    the message is ;
    your achievements are worthless, and worthless players are praised.
    Ludicrous and definitely counterproductive.
    why am I being so polite?
    It is completely stupid!!!
    Yup according to Diamond,
    Whites had an unfair advantage, those lucky bastards had all the good cattle and soils, so they have no merit at all – NONE.
    And Colored people were at the wrong place at the wrong time, only bad luck kept them primitive and there is nothing they could have done to leave their primitive ways behind in all of those 150,000 years, bad luck is the only reason why they still cut children’s tongues today in 2010.
    White man has no merit – NONE – he was simply LUCKY.
    In other words , Diamond took the idea behind affirmative action and built a »phony» theory around it.
    If only planet earth had had a system in which
    25 % of its good biomes were alloted to colored people, Africans would have been to the moon before the Americans and would have found a cure for cancer and blah blah blah…
    There is a possibility Diamond is victim of paralogism (fallacious or illogical argument or conclusion),
    but I’d bet money his effort to discredit white man and western civilization is conscious and intentional,
    it is at best sophism ( deceiving by using an argument apparently correct in form but actually invalid ) or fraudulent at worst;
    keep in mind Diamond believes man made global warming is real and will kill us all.
    And we know global warming »promoters» are not the most honest bunch ( Phil Jones, Al Gore et cetera… )
    Most people are not intelligent enough to see trough paralogism and sophism.
    Diamond’s theory was created with the intent to deceive ( by using complex paralogisms and complex sophisms ),
    Diamond’s theory is fueled by white guilt, ( and guilt makes people »swallow» anything )
    and most of all;
    Diamond’s theory is supremely ludicrous.
    Maybe if we distributed trophies in Africa like we do with hockey kids, Africans would magically leave behind their primitive ways?

  47. “It takes a village to raze a child”.
    Posted by: Oz at April 5, 2010 1:31 PM
    Ditto – made my day 🙂

  48. I’m not sure why we should be concered or bother to interfer anyway.
    I don’t care to live over there and change thier culture, and would like to see them stay home and not change mine. We will all get along famously, and may even like each other.
    We all have our unique and individual ways of reducing our nations carbon footprint, why criticize?
    Simple, no?

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