White people, and many others, throughout South Africa were infuriated. But a friend had this to say:
This is good 4GW. Completely deniable if it comes to court action ("I was saying that about the Boer song, not me personally." Plus his culture is fine with weasel words and weasel actions). And gives him a big moral level boost from his supporters. It comes off like thumbing his nose (his supporters love him more, become more bold) and it's deniable if the enemy tries to use it against him. The fact that he'll beat any charges related to it gives him a second moral level boost from a three word tweet.
Emboldens his support base. Co-opts the farm murder movement by essentially assuming a leadership role because now the farm murderers look at him and they also wonder "is he the one giving orders?" (If there is an organised farm killing movement vs distributed movement vs they just make good targets).
This is a master stroke.
He knows his enemy well. They'll do exactly one of three things. Leave the country (he appears to win, even while eroding his money supply). They get another excuse for a 2 minute hate and vent against him, while continuing to produce only to be plundered and thus support him. Or they do nothing different and bury their heads in the sand and continue to provide financial support for his side (tax revenue), provide a unifying enemy (a.k.a. hatred fodder) for his side (like Jews for WW2 Germans - yes, I know that's an oversimplification, but it's a commonplace), and by continuing like this they contribute to the low opinion the rest of the country has of them (a culture that responds/respects force, due to short time preferences and cultural history will only lose respect for another culture that lets itself be plundered).
Moral level win (for his side, degraded moral level for his enemy). Physical level encouragement for farm murderers. Mental level messing with his enemy's minds. This is the kind of thing Heartiste would crow about if it wasn't against his preferred side.
The only way it backfires is if it increases resolve amongst his enemies. But soy boys and shrill shrikes don't really do "resolve".
Malema definitely appears to be the Bantu nations' Grey Champion in this Fourth Turning. Will the non-blacks find their own champion, or will they disappear from history?
Of the non-blacks, I suspect the Whites will disappear due to emigration, being killed off by crime, or running out of breeding partners.
ReplyDeleteI expect the Coloureds will survive, but living as second-class citizens yet again, back in the form of the not-black-enough role they played in apartheid (back then it was not-white-enough). They might end up being the closest thing to a productive class for the rest to sponge off of.
At some point the Coloureds will realise that they've been classified as "non-black", but by then it'll probably be too late to ally with the Whites or protect themselves.
I expect the Indians will die off like the whites, but with fewer of them emigrating, and more of them dying in looted shops in Durban. They might be a productive class at the moment, supporting the rest through providing jobs and taxes, but they're hated for it. The labourer who offloads the delivery truck for the Indian owner is usually not thankful for his job. More likely he's angry that he's working for an indian (I'm not sure why, but I've seen this before), and he's envious and jealous of what the Indian has (not realising that the Indian doesn't "have" it, he built it).
The Afrikaners, despite their pedigree, and despite the posturing from some of them (read: empty threats to make themselves feel better), have mostly devolved into soft, urbanised soyboys. The few remaining hardened boers (whether actually farmers or not) are too few and too stoic to last. Their stoicism will be their undoing. They are a toughened, hardy breed, but they're less prone to drawing lines in the sand and taking action than their forebears. Now they excel at heroically putting up with whatever life throws at them. Including death, out-breeding, and economic strangulation.
I wonder if it's because so few of them are farmers anymore? They're missing that visceral connection with the reality of death that farmers deal with on a daily basis. Even if they don't slaughter their own animals anymore (abattoirs are cheaper and easier), they still understand that if they do something wrong, then a whole flock dies.
In general the whites are no longer the Saxons that (slowly) began to hate. They are the ostriches that began to double down and bury their heads deeper in the sand (Cialdini's principle of consistency wasn't it?).
Everyone's waiting for an organised resistance. They're waiting for your Grey Champion to arrive and give them orders. And once they see that they're not alone, that there are a couple hundred thousand other Whites all there and taking action, then they'll feel emboldened enough to act.
ReplyDeleteBut they're all waiting for someone else to "start" (whatever that means). They aren't angry enough to take irrevocable action.
Plus, waiting for a "leader" of some sort allows them to keep having an excuse to continue with the status quo (i.e. being sheep who's raison d-etre is to be shorn). SO I doubt there will be a Grey Champion. But I do think that there's hope for a grassroots movement. A mission-orders first Intifada (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/11/william-s-lind/the-sling-and-the-stone/), with no leaders, but everyone knows what the main effort is - to push back as if their life depends on it ... because they finally figure out that it does.
Despite all the outrage about Malema's "Maybe. Maybe not." comment, there's very little of it spoken aloud. Average Joe's are not whispering to each other in seething anger around the watercooler.
ReplyDeleteThey're telling themselves "He can't get away with this!" while overlooking the number of court cases that have resulted in exactly zero repercussions for Mr Malema.
The Whites see him saying "Maybe." while forgettong about the court case winning "Maybe not." The plausible deniability is really quite excellent. There's nothing they can do about this one, so it just accustoms them to more of the same.
The Moral-level victory this achieves for the Blacks is fabulous. William Lind would be impressed if he read about this. It's like having Osama Bin Laden as a member of Congress saying "Maybe. Maybe not." after 9/11 and getting off scott free. The demoralising effect on the population would be horrific. The emboldening effect on OBL's followers would be tremendous. It's as if their champion not only is paid by the enemy, but is in a position of power among them, and then walked up to the enemy's champion, spat in his face, and the only repurcusion is being politely asked for a tissue.
Cultural differences matter, and a culture that has (and still does) run off tribal warfare and Might Makes Right (see: Nigeria, Somalia, the renewed slave trade in Libya) has nothing but blind obedience and worship for a string daredevil leader (Western cultures might mistakenly think of this as respect). And Western cultures raised by schoolteachers (read: White South Africans) have a lifetime of training to shut up and accept whatever arbitrary punishment is forced on them by school teachers. You get shouted at, you shut up even more and slink down in your chair, trying to make even fewer waves. Malema taunts you and your dead, so what do you do? Shut up, slink down in your office chair, and try make even fewer waves. Don't even discuss it with other Whites in case you get in trouble.
The more Malema talks, the more fear the Whites have, and the less fear the Blacks have.
And the frog gets a bit hotter without really noticing (or daring to speak out if he does notice).