I read the South African Sunday Times for one reason and one reason only. My neighbour drops it on my porch on a Monday morning once she is finished with it. I normally do not pay for quasi-journalism.
On page 22 a lady by the name of Christi van der Westhuizen, whose resume says she is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria wrote an article about "New Afrikaners & Inclusivity"
These types of articles are sometimes quite interesting in that you can read the prejudice basically throughout the article. You could see where she was going by just reading the first paragraph. I am now going to do exactly what she did: Categorise and typify.
Writers in this category claim to know their subjects by "the research I did" Classic Associate stuff
She typifies her victims by the use of all sorts of cliche words , Racial organisation, dominant Anglo whiteness, enclave, expansive and imaginative kind of identity et all.
Very evidently there was a purpose to this piece of junk prose. I could not find it. Probably to tell the world that Whiteness - yes in the sense that there are white people, of which the writer apparently is one - and Blackness is not the same thing. No Madame it is not and never will be. Your assumptions and statements have been made by hundreds of writers before you and it will happen hundreds of times again and again.
What you have written does not encompass even one percent of what it means to be an Afrikaner or Afrikaans speaker and attempts at making it seem like a crime and have Afrikaans speakers come out in droves to repent is not going to happen.
I officially distance myself from such quasi-prose and read it with the contempt it deserves.
On page 22 a lady by the name of Christi van der Westhuizen, whose resume says she is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria wrote an article about "New Afrikaners & Inclusivity"
These types of articles are sometimes quite interesting in that you can read the prejudice basically throughout the article. You could see where she was going by just reading the first paragraph. I am now going to do exactly what she did: Categorise and typify.
Writers in this category claim to know their subjects by "the research I did" Classic Associate stuff
She typifies her victims by the use of all sorts of cliche words , Racial organisation, dominant Anglo whiteness, enclave, expansive and imaginative kind of identity et all.
Very evidently there was a purpose to this piece of junk prose. I could not find it. Probably to tell the world that Whiteness - yes in the sense that there are white people, of which the writer apparently is one - and Blackness is not the same thing. No Madame it is not and never will be. Your assumptions and statements have been made by hundreds of writers before you and it will happen hundreds of times again and again.
What you have written does not encompass even one percent of what it means to be an Afrikaner or Afrikaans speaker and attempts at making it seem like a crime and have Afrikaans speakers come out in droves to repent is not going to happen.
I officially distance myself from such quasi-prose and read it with the contempt it deserves.
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