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Liberty Needs To Reclaim Compassion
During my years attending an all-boys school, many of my previous and currently-disproved political convictions were formed. As an adolescent, I watched the series The West Wing in awe of…
Creating ideas vs harnessing White Monopoly Capital
University of Witwatersrand sociology Prof. Roger Southall begins his recent piece on “White Monopoly Capital" (WMC) stating that “many” want to unjustifiably marginalize a notion he maintains is politically “indisputably…
Nazi Matie Posters: Stop Playing Games
South Africans of all political camps seem to have a tough time effectively communicating their ideas. This is to be expected in a political culture that values singing and dancing as…
Could a simple plant end the opioid crisis in America?
The marijuana leaf could be the key to ending the opioid crisis as we know it. Roughly 60 percent of the American population lives in the 28 states and Washington…
Why SA is failing to resolve its racial problem Part 2 – The costly illusion of racial superiority
READ PART ONE HERE The political divide between black and white in South Africa since 1994 is widening at an alarming rate. If it continues to do so, the outcome…
Are white students at the University of Cape Town gutless?
This is an e-mail to a colleague at the University of Cape Town who complained about the absence of ‘whites’ in the forthcoming Students Representative Council (SRC) election – describing them…
Why SA Fails to Resolve Racism – The Deep Roots of Racism (Part 1)
Racism today is widely categorised as a moral crime, held to arise from individual moral aberration. The problem with this moralistic interpretation is that not only is it not true,…
Racialism is a nasty but profitable business
Races among humans are artificial, perverse constructs generated by misapplying the taxonomic category subspecies or by arbitrary socio-political construction. The subspecies, as a biological category, was formalized by Carl Linnaeus,…
Editorial: Don’t be Distracted – Media, not Roodt, are to Blame
South Africa’s left-wing media has done it again. It has managed to divert attention away from its own ethical bankruptcy onto a scapegoat individual. That individual - who, oddly enough,…
White Male Trolls ‘Social Justice’ Press Media – Calls for Disenfranchising White Males
The now-infamous blog post on The Huffington Post South Africa calling for the disenfranchisement of white males appears to have been written by a white male, in an attempt to…