Conrad Koch disagrees. He is very concerned that especially blacks do not have the ability to choose between right and wrong, and it is his job to control what they may hear. At heart Koch is the most vile of all white supremacists, the type who believe they are the Messiah for blacks, whom they do not believe can defend themselves.
To this end he actively sabotages the income of those he disagrees with. He has harassed Pick n Pay, Landrover and other sponsors of Steve Hofmeyr, but this was not enough. On his Twitter feed, under his handle @chestermissing, he spews insult after insult at anyone who dares to disagree with him, with nogals an accompanying letter asking for people's work details so he can sabotage their incomes too. This is fascism at its best.
He has made up his mind that Steve Hofmeyr is a racist. He is not prepared to test this allegation through the legal system, but he loves calling Steve and others all kinds of names. Innocent until proven guilty is not an option in his fascist mind.
For the sake of fairness, here is what he wrote on his blog:
Steve Hofmeyr, that asinine blonde amoeba, is using the world’s most simplistic rhetoric device to avoid culpability for his bigotry: he’s going ‘prove it’. It’s an old, hack trick that has its strength in the idea of incommensurability. We don’t share a common set of agreements over what constitutes prejudice, so in Stevevillefontein just about nothing is racist, unless that exact same thing happens to a particular type of right wing white person *, then it’s nuclear meltdown stage 9. How do they pull off being a victim and oppressor at the same time? Being a dominatrix in AfriForum (Steve’s official fan club) must be very confusing.
I do not need to comment on the above paragraph, it is clear that it is empty insults based on Koch's lack of facts
As you may or may not have heard, depending on whether you care for the intellectual Jurassic Park that is Stevo’s twitter feed, Steve believes that “Blacks were the architects of apartheid”. So then now, I know in the common sense world the rest of us live in it’s patently obvious that this is racist, but nope, not for The Steve and his merry band of morons. So now, painfully, I will explain why it’s fuggen racist.
No Koch, what is patently obvious is that Steve said this in a context which you choose to ignore. He says the behaviour of blacks, as today, let to the formation of apartheid. Many people prefer not to live to people who pour faesces on the steps of the legislature, who slaughter cows in their front yards, who stone cars and burn and loot in the name of "protest"
Just to be clear, I am not explaining this for Steve. His head is too far up his own ass to hear us anyway. I am explaining this so fence sitters will stop sitting. The discourse that Steve is spewing is part of a cultural narrative that maintains the insane inequality we face today. When a white bigot with huge public presence starts telling black people apartheid was their fault it’s time for us to block his access to socially accepted public platforms. With the minimum of publicity we need to tell his umlungustan that they have a right to a racist mindset, but it’s gonna cost them. Kyknet, I will be asking your CEO for an LNN interview about what side of this line you are choosing. Neutrality on this is not neutral.
It is not your choice to decide what is said and heard Koch, especially not to assign new meanings to what was said.
Is “Blacks were the architects of apartheid. Go figure.” racist?
No
Firstly, what’s racism? Simply put, racism isn’t the consciousness of race as much as it’s the prejudice against people based on race. As every B grade quasi intellectual white conservative type likes to whine, yes, in South Africa we obsess on race when the problem is often both class and race, but that move has been well explored as a white-guy-avoids-the-race-issue move. If this is confusing Andile Mngxitama lays it down here: http://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-26-class-theory-finally-decolonised
Mngxitama is a KNOWN black racist. What makes being a classist better than a racist Koch??
Next, what is apartheid? Apartheid was a system of laws that did some wonderful things to black people, to name just a few:
It took away their land and wealth in the Land Act.
Hardly. Yes, like in EVERY political system mistakes were made, and their were those who lost land that was theirs and it should not have happened, but the entire country was not stolen as you would have us believe.
It totally deprived them of any effective vote – no political rights.
No you see, there was NO political system, we did not deprive them, we created a political system to which we were going to eventually give access. It is a FACT that blacks were behind in development. A fact is not racism. We could read, write, build ships, oxwagens, guns etc. while they were still hunting game with assegais and skins for clothing. This is a historic fact. Blacks had to be developed, and apartheid was the system that allowed that to happen at their own pace, rather than today's where a Grade 5 is made State President and Eskom switches off the lights. You cannot make someone a doctor for instance by just calling them doctor. You have to develop them till they are competent as a doctor.
It made black people live in ridiculously small rural outbacks with no way to eek a living but to come hundreds of kilometers to work on white owned mines, etc, for a pittance while their families scraped by in poverty.
No, we never MADE them do this. They wanted employement, we gave it to them. Many blacks today will tell you they were better of under apartheid. In fact a liberal lecturer at UCT wrote a story on the old Zoo near UCT, and ironically a black bergie said that he lives in one of the old enclosures as he lost his job when Mandela came into power...
It gave black people substandard education for decades, and even tried to force them to learn in Afrikaans, often a 3rd language. How the F do you learn algebra in a 3rd language? Imagine we made your kids learn in Shangaan Steve?
South Africa was a mostly Afrikaans country in the business world Sparkie, the idea with teaching them in Afrikaans was to open job opportunities. You will of course deny this. There was nothing sub-standard about their schools. Can I remind you that Mandela, Ramaphosa, Mc Bride etc were all qualified at university? Under apartheid. Should I also remind you that whites had to pay high fees at Varsity, while blacks were heavily subsidised? Will you deny this too? Please explain in as many words as you choose how Mandela managed to qualify in Law???
It blocked them from ever being able to advance in their career. To this day 75% of SA CEOs are white. We also on average earn 6 times more than black people, so our paranoia that we are under attacked is simply untrue.
Like I said, mistakes were made, but countries evolve. Not a single political system is the result of a policy made 50 years ago, anywhere in the world. But yet again, despite your best denial, Mandela became a lawyer. We did not take away their careers, we simply separated it, which in hindsight should not have happened.
It bullied them into peripheral city outskirts where they had to get back to by a certain time or face jail or deportation to homelands.
You mean like the ANC and liberals are bullying them to peripheral city outskirts today?
It made people carry evil little books called passbooks, which if you didn’t have meant jail.
To prevent over-population and drain on resources. You could learn from this. Your so called FREEDOM is not so free to the township dwellers drinking cholera infested water, is it?
So, for the sake of common human decency, let’s agree at least that apartheid was itself racist. So now, “Blacks were the architects of apartheid”. Obviously they didn’t vote for apartheid themselves? And obviously they didn’t send the trucks that dragged people screaming from their homes? Yup, this is that wonderful dynamic sexist pricks do when they blame the victim instead of the rapist. Basically Steve is telling us it’s black people’s fault because they were asking for it, in their tight pants and short skirts. If you are a Steve fan right now and you do not feel the deepest sense of shame then you should seek help because your soul has been expropriated without compensation.
You see, you again superimpose your own twisted belief on what Steve said. He simply said that the behaviour of blacks led to apartheid. That is a fact. He is not making a statement as to whether this was the correct thing to do. He is simply saying there was a shared responsibility, us through power, them through behaviour.
However, Steve tried to build some credibility around this claptrap on his Facebook page. First, he said ‘go figure’ at the end, which he thinks means it’s our fault that we didn’t see it like he sees it. If Juju said “All whites must die. Go figure”, Steve’s little brain would have exploded all over his Pick n Pay sponsored face, so no.
Again the liber discourse of Racism = Murder. Juju saying go die is the same as Steve saying they played a role in the formation of apartheid. Liberals have no value of life, and hence they simply cannot condemn any kind of threat to human life. Unless of course they can nail it to white racism.
Steve then tried to explain that if nobody wants to play with you, then it's probably your fault. Ja, Steve, I am going to shove that logic so far down your throat you gonna have to sing through your privileged behind.
Well now, how many whites want to play with you?
Let’s go. Steve said: “If the world doesn’t buy into African systems, mentality and reputation, it isn’t always their fault”. Let’s start with the awkward fact that he stole his entire language from black people. Afrikaans was first written in Arabic by an Iman translating the Koran. Salaam alaikum, Oom Steve.
What the hell? Are you insane? Afrikaans is a mix of Dutch, German and other European languages with a tiny bit of influence from local tribes. And since we are bursting bubbles here, an Arabian is just that, an Arabian. Not a black.
If you want more info: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2014-08-14-i-will-touch-you-on-your-language-rescuing-afrikaans-from-the-right-wing/
Ask my friend Daily Maverick, they are just as fascist as me. It is like telling a judge to listen to your gang members in deciding whether you run a drug cartel. Insane.
Second, cultural assimilation in our country happened at the end of a gun, a historical truth Steve and his team just love to ignore. Secondly Afrikaans boer culture, as it went through SeSotho and SiPedi lands took on a variety of African cultural features to survive. Damn that must annoy him. However, what we really need to unpack is the incredible bigotry underlying the cultural superiority he’s invoking, white supremacist that he is.
No sir. We landed here. We tried to negotiate for land where necessary. Bought land where necessary. Entered into war where the black tribes attacked us. Shall I remind you that Retief died in the SALE of land?
Steve’s argument is older even than the language he’s saying it in. Colonialists arrived here and needed to explain their place in the world in terms of both their claimed decent Christian values (I know, hilarious), their interaction with the newly discovered Darwinian science of evolution, and their desire to exploit these ‘new’ lands to the absolute maximum. They saw themselves as being at the peak of an evolutionary hierarchy: everyone else was closer to being an animal. It’s much easier to brutally steal a country if the people living there have been denigrated to animal status. Black people could try and climb this hierarchy by adopting western cultural norms – we are just so generous. We also did kindly stuff like force them to hut pay tax or go to jail, so they had to involve themselves in our economy, an economy in which they would never be given access or equal social status. Assimilation to western norms was not a choice for black people. So saying that we didn’t assimilate to African norms is both untrue, and severely assholish.
Koch, you cannot make up History as you go along... Facts and artefacts do not vindicate you. Please stick to the little you do know.
However, the XXX strength racism Steve’s using here is that he still buys into the black-people-are-closer-to-animals rhetoric. His entire discourse is one that suggests that black people are less evolved.
Again, your own racist interpretation of what Steve said. Go figure!
For e.g.: ‘If women, toddlers and grannies complain about your contribution to the rape rate, it isn’t always their fault’. Firstly, this statement is a bald faced misrepresentation, as the people who work in gender rights can attest to. Secondly, he is selling the old idea of black men’s sexual insatiability, which comes directly from the animal-like narrative. Gender violence is a huge problem in our country. Using it to serve a narrow right wing agenda is evil.
No, the people in Gender Rights cannot attest, as, remember, you keep no racial stats. It is pretty logical though when you read every report, and in 99 % of them the suspect comes from a township, but libs cannot put 2 and 2 together. Much less fascist libs.
Regarding the mythological cultural evolutionary hierarchy, apart from the fact that Africans were building universities when Steve and my ancestors were still grunting around in bear skins, western colonial domination and sciences were a result of ideas they jacked from everywhere else and just being more vicious. If Steve wants to apply his own logic to himself he will find that stuff like penicillin, electricity, railways, etc, actually happened while his dudes were busy voortrekking themselves so they could keep their slaves, so all they invented really was biltong. Of course, I would never apply Steve’s bigoted logic, so I completely reject that last sentence. Stop being such a self-hater, Steve.
Again your self-authored history... I can say with the same authority as you that whites invented the Zulu kraal, but as I work with FACTS, I know that is not true.
I hope the millions of awesome, warm, hard working white Afrikaans people, including the likes of Max Du Preez, Zelda la Grange, Antjie Krog, Pieter-Dirk Uys, etc, can take the incredible contributions their culture has brought to the world away from this schmuck of a bigot.
I just LOVE the names you mention here. All who would have helped planting bombs in all likelihood.
So, yes, we have proved, that “Blacks were the architects of apartheid” was supremely racist. Pick n Pay will realize this eventually, because if Steve had said, “Jews were the architects of the Holocaust” he would be out on his ass by now.
It is not YOUR authority to prescribe Fascist!
Finally Steve said in his excuse of a FB update that “If folk did not want to share a country with you, why is it always their fault?” We will remind him of these words as we remove his sponsors from him one by one. No bakkie, no cry, eh, Steve? Go figure.
You are repeating yourself Sparkie. Having a bakkie removed one day away from a 2 day sponsorship is hardly a victory now is it? And Racist Hunt is pretty sorry they did...
