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By: Ovidia

Ovidia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:28:24 +0000

okay, I’m overreacting & oversimplifying, I know…

I’m glad I get internet contact with white (I assume) people online like gartenf & yogamum because it gets too easy/tempting to sit in a hole & start hating everyone outside… sorry–it’s like how I love so much about Japanese–people/art/literature/engineering/tea/fashion/cuisine/customs both contemporary & historical & yet it irks me so much that their right wing conservatives still insist we ‘invited’ them over here to occupy us during WW 2!!

By: gartenfische

gartenfische — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:41:20 +0000

Hmmm, “right-thinking people,” eh?

And those white students, how ugly. Privilege breeds contempt, it seems. Especially when there are no counterbalances.

By: ChaoMugger

ChaoMugger — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:44:57 +0000

your cynicism burns ouch.

By: Ovidia

Ovidia — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:50:49 +0000

Nah don’t do it. Would just be making life more difficult for poor migrant workers who don’t get paid/don’t get paid enough by construction companies anyway.

Won’t make no statement that registers–probably just happy with you for speeding up redevelopment / urban facelift…

And/But of course you would get into major hot water

By: ChaoMugger

ChaoMugger — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:05:36 +0000

Or we could all go the route of the ANC/Umkhonto we Sizwe. Attack property, not people and still make a statement that way! (tempted, but my citizenship at risk, better not even think about it!)