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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21248)	6/19/2004 12:47:02 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81092

Gustave > "How do you stop a black man from drowning?" He answers: "You take your foot off his head." < That's South Africa for you. But today, I think, or perhaps I should say, I hope, more and more SAns can actually laugh at that instead of seriously believing it. > an Indian grins and asks: "What's the difference between a Jew and a snake? One is a cold-blooded creature of satan and the other is a snake." More likely to be an Afrikaner who says that than an Indian although, today, as we discuss elsewhere, there is a a "marriage" of right-wingers. Actually, one of the most extraordinary phenomena in SA today, something which no-one could have imagined, is how happy most Afrikaners are in the "new" South Africa. Indeed, they appear to have embraced multi-racialism and black majority rule. > "By provoking laughter in a way it's defeating the point," she said. "People who hold those views are not necessarily going to get into their cars and drive to the museum." I am one of them. I haven't been there and I am unlikely to go. The truth is that people who hold those views are no different from those who don't. It's just how one feels at the time. Nothing is cast in stone. Anyway, I can't stand political correctness and, particularly, the self-righteousness that the "correct" ones demonstrate to those who are not. > The director of the museum, Christopher Till, said the bans harked back to apartheid-era censorship and contradicted the spirit of free speech enshrined in the constitution. Ten years on from the demise of white minority rule, he said, bigotry was still prevalent in South Africa Actually, they learned a lot of that from the American liberals who are the acme of hypocrisy. > Since opening in 2001 the Apartheid Museum, a stark, concrete building resembling a prison on the outskirts of Johannesburg, has won plaudits at home and abroad for its hard-hitting depiction of oppression. Soon they'll make an "Apartheid Industry", like the Holocaust Industry, and open museums in every big city, experts will give lectures and contributions will find their ways into the pockets of certain people -- namely the representatives of those who suffered (not those who actually suffered or their descendants). They won't let apartheid die, it's too much of a "good thing" to keep the wound open forever. The New York lawyers will see to that. normanfinkelstein.com