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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Documentary on South African farm murders
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 03:24:41 -0400
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On Sat, 24 May 2025 23:28:36 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>On 2025-05-24 10:22 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> 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'?
>
>Philosophical posturing aside, how many stories have YOU heard in our 
>legacy media about South Africa since apartheid ended? Why do you 
>suppose that is?

Legacy media? Not many because it's not a concern to the daily lives
of their viewers and that is all that really matters to them. I did
know about as it was brought up over the years in other media like on
the social platforms. Not that it ever got enough attention to make a
difference but it wasn't unmentioned.