If there's one thing that makes my blood boil it's fellow South Africans (and people I'm supposed to know and love) who cling to outdated and outmoded ways of thinking
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Die Rooi Gevaar? There's a bloody Commmunist Threat? in 2009? The verkrampte idiots in Orania are living in what year? 1950? Comrade Stalin is still alive is he?
But my real question is what is/what are Klippies?
Klipdrift brandewyn (brandy). An old, staid Afrikaner favourite.
Some of the oldies still harp on about the communist threat although they're nearly all dead by now. They can't get it into their skulls that capitalism is just as screwed.
Must be pretty rough brandy if the have to add Coke. I like my brandy straight. But then I even try aguardiente straight; even some popskull made by an old gentleman who was sweet on my mother.
What I've read about Orania makes me wonder about the overall common sense of the people who live there.
Orania makes you wonder about the "common sense" of the fools who instigated apartheid. The Afrikaner race, in the more stupid cases, is reluctant to let go of the "glorious" past. I can say that. I'm Afrikaner but I've seen that change is necessary as it is inevitable.
Believe you me, the human propensity for committing acts of evil is universal.
This, as far as I'm concerned, is the true lesson of the Holocaust. Or I wish it would be. Many people seem to feel the lesson is "Germans (or Europeans) are intrinsically bad people" or "Jews were victims, therefore they can commit no wrong."
In fact, yes, Africans, Jews, Cambodians, Chinese, Russians, and even a truly refined and agreeable people like the Germans are all capable of evil. Each of us needs to deal with it in ourselves first, and our neighbors (or "enemies") second.
Pathetically, it took my mom and aunt living in an upscale, upper-middle-class part of the US to finally accept that the Shvatzes were intrinsically human and not genetically inclined to tear their dwellings apart and live like animals; that "interracial" marriages were not doomed to fail, that not all Goyim were programmed to kill Jews at first opportunity, and not all Asians were alien and peculiar.
(Please help: what is verkrampte? There's a similar sounding Yiddish word and I want to know what yours means.)
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But my real question is what is/what are Klippies?
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Some of the oldies still harp on about the communist threat although they're nearly all dead by now. They can't get it into their skulls that capitalism is just as screwed.
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What I've read about Orania makes me wonder about the overall common sense of the people who live there.
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This, as far as I'm concerned, is the true lesson of the Holocaust. Or I wish it would be. Many people seem to feel the lesson is "Germans (or Europeans) are intrinsically bad people" or "Jews were victims, therefore they can commit no wrong."
In fact, yes, Africans, Jews, Cambodians, Chinese, Russians, and even a truly refined and agreeable people like the Germans are all capable of evil. Each of us needs to deal with it in ourselves first, and our neighbors (or "enemies") second.
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To go on a slight tangent, William Golding cottoned onto something when he wrote LORD OF THE FLIES.
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Pathetically, it took my mom and aunt living in an upscale, upper-middle-class part of the US to finally accept that the Shvatzes were intrinsically human and not genetically inclined to tear their dwellings apart and live like animals; that "interracial" marriages were not doomed to fail, that not all Goyim were programmed to kill Jews at first opportunity, and not all Asians were alien and peculiar.
(Please help: what is verkrampte? There's a similar sounding Yiddish word and I want to know what yours means.)
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http://dictionary.reverso.net/English-definitions/verkrampte
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faklempt (Yiddish or High German)
1. suffering from neurotic symptoms of fear about imaginary threats
2. nervous or sweaty
3. concerned and anxious
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