NVDL: This is interesting. A panicked Ozzie begins to questions whether it is a good thing that large numbers of previous oppressors leave the Land of Criminals and Stolen Money for the |Land of Wallabies and Honey. The rants go on and on...
I need help with this one. I have noticed since the fall of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, there has been a seemingly steady flow of white South African families immigrating to Australia and probably other parts of the world (Canada, the UK and the like I imagine). Presumably these people fill the immigration requirements for migration to this country, and there is very little in the media about this phenomenon.
Are there any safeguards to ensure that the people we allow to move to Australia aren’t former criminals - prison officers, politicians, exploitative factory owners and farmers etc. guilty of some of the many recorded crimes against humanity attributed to the Apartheid regime?
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Ha - quite ironic coming from someone who lives in a country where the very first settlers were convicts!!
What interests me is that the writer observes that there is very little in the media about the phenomenon. I would have thought these kinds of questions would have been asked from the start. On what would white South Africans' credibility be based,given that everyone knows this was the home of extreme racism?
Perhaps Ozzie unease shouldn't be foisted exclusively on South Africa's white supremacist racist pigs (is that what we all are), but also on those agents of Xenophobia we saw recently. In other words, racism in SA is not 'whites only' (pardon the pun). Not sure if I saw any white faces setting immigants on fire, knifing them to death and looting. There is another point to be raised too. As soon as you're making inquiries about a stereotypical mindset (that you suspect) you're starting to discriminate. Careful.
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