re: Trump now looking into South Africa white genocide / land theft

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You do know that the Boers settled the area (mostly uninhabited) in the early 1600's right?

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People won't acknowledge this fact, or the fact that it was largely unsettled, nor the fact that this land has been claimed and made productive over generations.

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Well, there is the complication that almost nothing he posted is true.

The Dutch did not arrive until the 1650s, and for more than a century their presence was essentially limited to a few outposts for resupply of their ships sailing around the Cape. The (limited) land that they occupied was purchased from Khoisan peoples. They started farming that land (and immigrating farmers) in order to feed the outposts and provide supplies to their ships. As evidence that the local population was sparse, they used slave labor, but actually imported most of their slaves from Indonesia and India. Of course, they may also have avoided any attempt to enslave the Khoisan because they were outnumbered and far from home ... much as North American colonists did not have success enslaving Amerindians.

The most productive farmland is actually in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and the Boers did not move there until AFTER 1800, which was done to leave the territory lost by the Dutch to the English as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. Basically, the Boers were moving into this area at about the same time Americans were moving into the Northwest Territory in appreciable numbers.

Imagine expropriation of land in Nebraska, in order to “compensate“ a Plains Indian tribe. Now, imagine someone arguing “but white people had been there since 1607 (Jamestown), when (in fact) no white man ever laid his eyes on Nebraska until more than 200 years after that date.

The interesting point is that Transvaal and Orange Free State WERE largely empty. The area HAD been populated by a Bantu people, but they had just lost a war with another Bantu people based in modern Zimbabwe. That war had left the area somewhat depopulated. The Boers moved-in and then fought a war with those proto-Zimbabweans for control of the area .. and won.

The large Bantu populations in those provinces moved into the area AFTER the Bantu-Boer wars. Then they proceeded to out-breed the Afrikaners.

We will have another “south Africa” thread tomorrow, and the same set of uninformed yahoos will post the same non-historical drivel on that thread as well, because they read it on InfoWars or Gateway Pundit. Why? Because (for the most part) uninformed people will choose to remain uninformed, if doing otherwise will shatter their preconceptions.