For more proof that bigotries flock together, let’s take a look at some tweets the always despicable Matt Forney made today after learning of the death of Nelson Mandela:
My Christmas wish came true! Nelson Mandela is dead! I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS! #burninhell #communistshitstain
— Matt Forney (@realmattforney) December 5, 2013
I'm going to start posting statistical evidence of how Nelson Mandela destroyed South Africa. Any neoreactionary Tweeps wanna join in?
— Matt Forney (@realmattforney) December 5, 2013
His “statistical evidence” of an alleged “white genocide” in South Africa? A page that links to a curious document full of unsourced claims and hysterical language, and which refers to South Africa’s former apartheid system as “so-called apartheid.” (It’s a pdf; TRIGGER WARNING for gruesome pictures of murder victims.)
Here’s a piece from Africa Check debunking similar claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa.
Forney’s “statistical evidence” that life was better for everyone under apartheid comes from a publication called “The New Observer.” To get an idea of what sort of publication this is, here are some of the top stories on the site at the moment:
- Liberals Aghast as US’s “25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods” All Happen to be Black
- The Extermination of Whites in Europe: “We Are the Last 3 German Children in Our School.”
- If White Americans Don’t Start Having Babies Now, the US Will Vanish by 2100
Here’s another Africa Check piece that takes on widely disseminated Facebook post that also claims things were better under apartheid.
Forney’s “statistical evidence” that “[u]nder Nelson Mandela and his successors, South Africa became the rape capital of the world” is a link to an article in World Net Daily about a single serial rapist in South Africa. There are no statistics in it.
While it’s a bit ironic to see Forney — an admitted girlfriend-abuser who once wrote that “[w]omen should be terrorized by their men [because] it’s the only thing that makes them behave better than chimps” — grandstanding about violence against women, it’s actually rather hard to track down reliable statistics about rape in South Africa, much less statistics about rape during apartheid, because back then the white authorities didn’t exactly give a shit about black victims of rape.
Many of those who’ve studied the culture of rape in South Africa argue that the country’s history of apartheid made the problem far, far worse, engendering “an exaggerated culture of aggression and male dominance, among both black and white,” as one researcher has argued.
My favorite tweet of the bunch, though, is this one:
Fact: Nelson Mandela had almost nothing to do with ending apartheid, because he was in jail. He stole the credit from Tutu and de Klerk.
— Matt Forney (@realmattforney) December 5, 2013
Yeah. Screw Anne Frank, too. All she did was sit around in that dumb attic.
Here’s “Free Nelson Mandela,” by the Special AKA. When it came out, I never believed it would ever come true.
RIP.
EDITED TO ADD: Thanks to @HamSushi on Twitter for pointing me to Forney’s lovely tweets!
@daintydougal, Uhura’s name is actually derived from “uhuru”.
Sn0rkmaiden, thank you for introducing me to Claire Khaw, seriously. I have been reading her blog all day – I can’t stop. It’s like a clown-car crash of hate. It’s hilarious. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/
Chicago existed last summer! I visited. 😀
But does it still exist? Or did you just imagine it existed with your poor ladybrain?
@LBT, I went to SA and Zimbabwe about 10 years ago. (Mostly SA + Victoria Falls.)
It was great. The plane ticket was super expensive, but once I was there everything was really cheap because of the exchange rate.
Here’s a cropped (for anonymity’s sake) picture of me and my sister petting a cheetah.
Here’s the sign at the entrance to Robben Island, where Mandela served 18 years. We rode over on a boat with an ANC youth club, which was cool.
The cheetah is alive. It was purring, just like any kitty. It was at a sanctuary for cheetahs that for whatever reason couldn’t live in the wild any more.
Fun fact: Cheetah fur is mostly very wiry and coarse, but the black spots are a totally different texture: soft and fuzzy.
You got to pat a purring cheetah! I haz all the envy.
I didn’t know that about cheetah fur!
Sounds like an arse-about-face version of acknowledging that misogynistic thinking gives rise to misogynistic religions. Not “protect from” but “reinforce power over”.
@kittehs, I was with three males who can confirm it! I was with two females as well, but alas they too have ladybrains.
CheetahSQUEEEEEE! Oh, I envy you being able to pet such a beautiful big kitteh. My torbie longhair polydactyl kitten is cute (and has quite the tail!), but she’s so…small, compared to that.
And wow, female misogyny. That’s…different.
Sounds like Michelle Malkin, only the latter is Filipina. But otherwise, a total Asian white supremacist. A special breed of loopy, in other words.
Ooh, ooh, I was in Chicago a month and a half ago! And I don’t have a ladybrain, so my male rationality says it must still be there!
RE: cloudiah
That is so cool that you got to go. I’ve never been anywhere in Africa at all, and though I love travel, I’m always a little dubious about traveling somewhere I don’t speak the local language/s. I would really like to visit the ruins of Carthage, though, and Egypt and Nubia and aaaagh I could never choose. The continent is so BIG! There’s too much to see and too many people to meet!
Oh, and guys: BEHOLD! The first of the Feminist Borg critters: the Devon Rex kitten! What do you think? Okay?
I wanna pet a cheetah! Or a lion or a tiger or jaguar!
Borg kitty! squeeeee! Here take my tuna!
This is going to be a different way than my usual commissions, since I’m kinda doing them for all y’all instead of my usual one. So I guess I’ll try and churn out two a week, post them as I go, and if there are any problems, poke me. Does that sound all right?
@Alex & LBT:
So that’s several men who can confirm it! PROOF!
BORG KITTY! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Your tuna will be assmilated, neuroticbeagle.
However you want to pace it is fine by me, Rogan – it’s your work, after all. 🙂
@auggz:
OW have you any spare headache pills?
@Bina:
PICS PLZ
Ask and ye shall receive! Here’s my kitten doing the Hokey Pokey:
http://t.co/uqvFsZDPbs
And here she is, tail-approving a snow shovel:
http://t.co/TSwFEx0s8o
And here’s one showing her awesome paws:
http://t.co/HnHiG58D2a
Okay, I don’t know why it doesn’t want to link to Instagram. Internets FAIL.
Both borgie kitty and torbie kitty are awesome.
It’s linking now, Bina.
LOOKIT THE FURS LOOKIT THE TAIL LOOKIT THE LITTLE TOES EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*ahem*
“She made some tweet about how she wouldn’t want a mentally disabled kid, so women should “accidentally on purpose” literally drop zie till zie dies. She backpedalled… To say that she would chose a more merciful method or something.”
The fucking fuck it’s called fucking adoption! Give the kid up for adoption, don’t fucking murder your goddamned child!
Great, it’s working for everyone but me. Glad you like her!
So – because she wouldn’t want a mentally disabled child (or rather, want to have the trouble of caring for one, because who actually wants their child to be disabled in any way, before the fact?)* she thinks other women should kill theirs?
That makes no fucking sense, apart from all the wrongness.
*Someone with Munchausen’s-by-proxy is the only exception I can think of.
BTW, here she is being rude:
http://t.co/wqT5dUnjmL
And here she is, being cute:
http://t.co/68dv9nTRef
You know, I like it when people tell me that I’d be better off dead than with mental disabilities. How merciful is it to know that I’m not worthy enough to live?
Bina – kitteh is obviously punishing you via the internets for taking her picture. You have seen (or not seen, in this case) Cat Anger Consequences.