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Subject: Re: [OT] Documentary on South African farm murders
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 22:22:25 -0400
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On 5/24/2025 9:57 PM, Rhino wrote:
> I just watched a very powerful documentary about the South African farm 
> murders that have aroused a flurry of controversy in the legacy media in 
> the US lately. Frankly, I'm surprised YouTube allowed it, knowing how 
> squeamish they are about violence. You are warned that there will be 
> horrific details about what criminals have done to whites AND blacks in 
> these farm attacks.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBu6VZWE7k [68 minutes]
> 
> This is not a new documentary - it was made in 2018 - but it got the 
> journalist in serious trouble with the South African authorities when 
> she tried to leave, as she recounts in the closing minutes of the film.
> 
> This film will go a long way to demonstrating that this is not a new 
> problem: farmers and their employees have been getting tortured, 
> murdered, raped and killed for years now. It just hasn't crossed the 
> radar of most Westerners because our media follow other stories. (I also 
> suspect they secretly wanted the world to believe that South Africans 
> all lived happily ever after when apartheid ended and didn't want to 
> undermine that narrative.)

Has the end of a civil strife ever precipitated a 'happily ever after'?