• "Whiteness burning": UCT Students are throwing “colonial” art on the pyre. Forgot College education
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[URL]http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21693278-students-are-throwing-colonial-art-pyre-whiteness-burning[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yS4Y3qZ.jpg[/IMG] [quote]FIRST they came for the statues. Last year students in Cape Town sparked national protests by calling on the University of Cape Town (UCT) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist who, like most Englishmen of his time, held racist views. The statue was removed but students were still angry. Many marched on South Africa’s parliament to complain about high college fees, among other things. That prompted a cash-strapped government not to raise fees after all. Protests about statues of dead racists soon spread around the world. Students demanded that Oriel College, Oxford take down its statue of Rhodes. (It refused.) The University of Texas at Austin has moved a bronze of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president, and will put it in a museum. [/quote] [quote]Meanwhile, back in Cape Town, UCT students starting a new academic year after the long summer break were quick to resume protests, this time over gripes such as not having enough spaces in university dormitories. They stormed through the campus grabbing artworks and burning them. Most of the paintings they heaped on a bonfire were portraits of white historical figures. They were, declared one protester, “symbols of the coloniser”. Another protester proudly posted pictures of the bonfire on Twitter, showing flames licking at the edges of a plaque commemorating Jan Smuts, a British-educated general who was twice South Africa’s prime minister and helped write the preamble to the UN’s founding charter. The tweet accompanying it proclaimed: “Whiteness is burning”. Some of the art-burners might usefully have spent more time in the library studying South African history. Among the works they turned to ashes was a 1993 oil painting by a black anti-apartheid artist, Keresemose Richard Baholo. It was called “Extinguished Torch of Academic Freedom”, one of a series of paintings depicting protests at the university. Students defaced a statue of Smuts and a bust of Maria Fuller, one of the first four women to attend the university. She enrolled in 1886, when most courses were open only to men. She went on to play a role in opening a women’s hall of residence. She was, however, white. [/quote] [quote]Students arrested for damaging property at UCT included several who are not obviously poor, such as the son of the chief executive of Eskom, the state power utility. Other universities have seen violent protests, too, largely over fees and overcrowding. A student leader at Walter Sisulu University told the [I]Daily Sun[/I], a tabloid: “We’re going to destroy everything.”[/quote] [video=youtube;io4TW6drq2s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4TW6drq2s[/video] Images of this: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/G65148Q.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YhSkWT4.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/oyGuUfC.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Sv0vzZT.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/64fvR9O.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XTiry84.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Cv2pgZx.png[/IMG]
good for them
"Fuck White People" Yeah this isnt racist at all
Vandalism is a great way to get your point across and doesn't make your viewpoint become associated with delinquency at all
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;49775309]good for them[/QUOTE] Are you serious right now?
The world be a lot better without white people. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
Mandela would be disappointed
I'm sure ISIS would approve.
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;49775318]Vandalism is a great way to get your point across and doesn't make your viewpoint become associated with delinquency at all[/QUOTE] people like this don't really care though their social movements are just an excuse to do shit like this
Wait so it's the liberals who support what is essentially book burning now? What a time to be alive.
Let's throw them on the fire then. If you want to act like racist pieces of shit and destroy valuable cultural items, the world doesn't need you around.
[QUOTE=Thlis;49775321]Are you serious right now?[/QUOTE] out with idols of colonialism.
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775324]The world be a lot better without white people.[/QUOTE] This is satire right
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;49775309]good for them[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775324]The world be a lot better without white people.[/QUOTE] snip but you guys are racist as fuck if serious
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;49775338]out with idols of colonialism.[/QUOTE] Yeah they should burn books as well then right? You could also try reading the fucking article to note this bit. [quote]Among the works they turned to ashes was a 1993 oil painting by a black anti-apartheid artist, Keresemose Richard Baholo. It was called “Extinguished Torch of Academic Freedom”, one of a series of paintings depicting protests at the university. Students defaced a statue of Smuts and a bust of Maria Fuller, one of the first four women to attend the university. She enrolled in 1886, when most courses were open only to men. She went on to play a role in opening a women’s hall of residence. She was, however, white.[/quote] [QUOTE=Ruski v2.0;49775348][img_thumb]http://38.media.tumblr.com/1eb867d6bd551af6f3b5e7422790786b/tumblr_inline_n3w3udYuRx1rnvvfh.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] I honestly think there are people on this form that unironically believe their "sentiment"
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;49775325]Mandela would be disappointed[/QUOTE] Yeah, Mandela never did anything violent ever.
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775324]The world be a lot better without white people.[/QUOTE] I see you make a compelling argument, but I'm not so sure I agree. Thanks for the helpful insight though and I hope you enjoy a comfortable evening!
[QUOTE=phygon;49775347]This is satire right[/QUOTE] No? Think about all of the imperialism and colonialism.
Yeah yeah burn white people That doesn't sound bad at all
[QUOTE=Thlis;49775355]Yeah they should burn books as well then right? You could also try reading the fucking article to note this bit.[/QUOTE] shit happens in mass burnings
[QUOTE=Thlis;49775321]Are you serious right now?[/QUOTE] He is judging on his post history. Honestly, this is what we refer to when we say "the regressive left". Racism is not how you solve racism, sexism is not you solve sexism, etc.
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775361]No? Think about all of the imperialism and colonialism.[/QUOTE] "Man, the world would be so much better without black people. Think about all the slavery they committed and all the wars they've gotten into and all the warlords who killed tons of innocents. Fuck those guys!" -you
There's protesting, and then there's whatever these stupid fucks are doing. I want the University to toss them out just so I can laugh. At some point you need to stop accepting these people's bullshit and tell them to fuck right off.
[QUOTE=Nautsabes;49775370]shit happens in mass burnings[/QUOTE] Mass burning shouldn't fucking happen in any society
[QUOTE=phygon;49775375]"Man, the world would be so much better without black people. Think about all the slavery they committed and all the wars they've gotten into and all the warlords who killed tons of innocents. Fuck those guys!" -you[/QUOTE] what
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775361]No? Think about all of the imperialism and colonialism.[/QUOTE] The world would be much worse off without European colonialism and imperialism. The Zulus would never be reigned in, democracy would have never caught on, Japan would still be a backwards state ruled by a warlord, less technological advances, etc.
South Africa in general is steadily falling apart and regressing - a lot of white farmers have been murdered or had already fled due to the violence, and large parts of the countries infrastructure and educational systems are in decline.
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775361]No? Think about all of the imperialism and colonialism.[/QUOTE] so you support destroying historical artifacts because they were made during a time when things were shit?
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;49775383]what[/QUOTE] You're making statements that are A. stupid as fuck B. racist C. are INCREDIBLY ignorant in that they only look at a single point on a wide spectrum of things that happened
From an artistic perspective some of those portraits look nice and well done. It's too bad they have to be destroyed to get your point across.
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