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[W:508]Why is Africa the most backward continent in the world? Is African culture to blame?

“When I was in South Africa prior to democracy, there was really no apartheid at all”

Quite correct.

The current government was about to release Mandela and had done away with segregation.

The majority of whites actually voted in a referendum in 1992 to introduce democracy, never mind do away with apartheid.

There was also no segregation when I last visited America......but only a devious fool would take that as meaning that I am claiming it never existed.
 

Only the most laughably ignorant would pretend that “prior to democracy, there was really no apartheid at all”.
 
not wars of outright conquest.

I'm still smiling about that piece of nonsense.

"Warfare was a fundamental part of Aztec culture with all males expected to actively participate and battle, referred to in Nahuatl poetry as 'the song of shields', was regarded as a perpetual religious and political necessity. The Aztecs were so accomplished in combat that they eventually forged an empire which covered 200,000 square kilometres and, at the height of their power, they extracted tribute from 371 city-states across 38 provinces."


But to racist Americans, only whites conquered other peoples.....
 
Only the most laughably ignorant would pretend that “prior to democracy, there was really no apartheid at all”.

Well, you certainly are an expert when it comes to the "laughably ignorant"......but were you in South Africa at the time at the dawn of democracy, as I was?
 
Well, you certainly are an expert when it comes to the "laughably ignorant"......but were you in South Africa at the time at the dawn of democracy, as I was?

Given how much drivel you spew, anyone who looked at it would swiftly become said expert
 
Given how much drivel you spew, anyone who looked at it would swiftly become said expert

Given how much trouble you get into on DT, it's easy to treat your mud throwing as childish and irrelevant.
 
Given how much trouble you get into on DT, it's easy to treat your mud throwing as childish and irrelevant.

Cool story bud. I couldn’t care less what an apologist for some of the worst regimes in human history thinks about me though
 
Cool story bud. I couldn’t care less what an apologist for some of the worst regimes in human history thinks about me though

It's everyone here who is on your back, bud.

Why not stop lying and stop being devious?

It may help you.
 
I doubt that the people who died during the endless wars between different groups in South America will give a damn.

Funny how you're so deeply concerned with the suffering caused by Native American conflicts but can't seem to summon even a fraction of the same for all those butchered by the Spanish.

The Aztecs were a brutal people :

Yes, the Aztecs had a culture of sacrifice. The Spanish, on the other hand, had a culture of slaughter.

But, of course, Woke Americans only concern themselves with racistly throwing mud at people of European descent.

I'm of European descent, so I have no idea what you are trying to get at.
 
Quite correct.

The current government was about to release Mandela and had done away with segregation.


Usually the descent thing to do is to let the segregated be the judge of whether segregation had ended, or how much of it had ended. It's kind of unsavoury for one inclined to see colonialism through the benefits of veneers of civilisation it imparted to be the judge of when segregation is over.





Those who are likely to be victims of segregation again should be the better judge of that.
 
It's everyone here who is on your back, bud.

Why not stop lying and stop being devious?

It may help you.

Congrats on revealing how deeply your head is buried in the sand.

Nobody is on “my back”.

Why not try to stop cheerleading for some of the most vile regime’s in human history?
 
Why not try to stop cheerleading for some of the most vile regime’s in human history?

The Mods are not that bad.

They have a lot of liars here to deal with.
 
Those who are likely to be victims of segregation again should be the better judge of that.

There are laws in the US against segregation.

Only those who continually place the race card and claim to be eternal victims say otherwise.
 
Funny how you're so deeply concerned with the suffering caused by Native American conflicts but can't seem to summon even a fraction of the same for all those butchered by the Spanish.

Did I say I was "deeply concerned"? It's in the distant past. Things that happen today concern me.

Why make up nonsense just because you feel it helps you "win" a debate?

It doesn't.

I was countering your obvious obsession with alleged misdeeds by whites with evidence that they were not the only people who conquered others.

A fact you appear totally ignorant of.
 
Yes, the Aztecs had a culture of sacrifice. The Spanish, on the other hand, had a culture of slaughter.

There you go with the racist nonsense again.

The Aztecs, as per my link had a culture of warfare "Warfare was a fundamental part of Aztec culture"

People get slaughtered in warfare.

Read up.

Now, as this thread is about Africa, why not address the subject including this quote on why Africa is backward? :

"Why Africa is Backward

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali

According to the Vice-Chancellor, ignorance is the root cause of the various challenges confronting Africa. “Other problems like poor leadership, corruption, unemployment, diseases and violence derive from that root,” he said, adding that “with more functional education, which is the foundation of development, we shall overcome the challenges”.
 
And absolutely true, bud.

Gee bud, it’s hardly a surprise given the number of apologists for colonialism we have running around desperately trying to excuse their favorite vile regimes.
 
Gee bud, it’s hardly a surprise given the number of apologists for colonialism we have running around desperately trying to excuse their favorite vile regimes.

Gee bud, it’s hardly a surprise given the number of apologists for corrupt African leaders we have running around desperately trying to excuse their favorite vile regimes.
 
Gee bud, it’s hardly a surprise given the number of apologists for corrupt African leaders we have running around desperately trying to excuse their favorite vile regimes.

Oh look, more sobs of “but the blacks!” from the local apartheid apologist. Too predictable

Next you’ll start crying about how “racist” it is to hold your colonist heroes accountable for wrecking the continent again
 
There you go with the racist nonsense again.

There was nothing racist about what I said.

The Aztecs, as per my link had a culture of warfare "Warfare was a fundamental part of Aztec culture"

That doesn't counter-act or disprove anything I say. You are bad at this.

I was countering your obvious obsession with alleged misdeeds by whites with evidence that they were not the only people who conquered others.

That was never my contention. You are increasingly poor at rebutting anything I've said here.

The Woke crowd can be any race. Look around you.

Are you done yet?
 
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