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Dr Strangelove
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This entire thread is racist! You should not discriminate among respondants to your question according to marital preference. On behalf of married and all other non-single people I protest the very existance of this thread.
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The Mad Viking
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of the Great White North
Feb 2000
time: 05:34
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Henry Wellington Wack, 1905
The Story of the Congo Free State
A very detailed and balanced book, as free of bias as one can expect from a western source a century ago.
He describes over 100 tribes in his book, but alleges cannabilistic habits to only "a few".
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It is not necessary in this place to give the names of all the tribes of which the native population of the vast Congo region is composed. They are numerous, and for the most part not easily pronouncable. Of the tribes not already referred to, the Basundis, Bakuendas, Batekas, Bayanzis, Batetelas, Mongos, Bantu, and Mombettus are most prominent. While differing in personal appearance, prowess, habits, and customs, clearly denoting that they are not descended from a common stock, there are not wanting certain traits which distinguish them all. All are polygamous, nearly all are cannibal, and the morals of the most advanced among them such as shock the average civilised man upon his first contact with them. Strangely inconsistent with the low moral sense which prevails among most of the tribes, some of them punish the crime of adultery with death, others by horribly mutilating the male offender. Cannibalism has long been suppressed by the Congo Government just as murder is suppressed among civilised communities; but the horrid practice is still indulged here and there, as opportunity occurs for evading the vigilance of the authorities. So recently as 1898, and possible to the present day, it was necessary to maintain a constant guard at the cemetery in Leopoldville, the chief station on the Upper Congo, to prevent the Bangalas unearthing the dead and carrying them off to feast upon. Several such cases were proved against them, and capital punishment had to be resorted to in order to stamp it out. This horrid subject is sickening to contemplate; but no description, however brief or superficial, of the Congo people, can ignore a fact which has occasioned, and still presents, such a tremendous difficulty for civilisation to surmount. This is but one of many difficulties with which the Congo Free State has had to contend, and those who sit in judgment upon that State should bear in mind that the Central African black is not by nature predisposed to civilisation. Not all the cannibal tribes are so repulsive and cruel as the Bangalas. Most of them eat no other human flesh but that of their enemies slain in battle. That source of supply will not suffice for the Bangalas, who make up it's deficiency with prisoners or slaves. Having broken their victim's limbs, they place him in a pool of water, with his head supported just above it's surface so that he may not drown. After having left him in that position for three days (if he survives that long), he is killed and eaten. Another method is to behead a victim, singe all the hair from the body over an ember fire, and then cut it into pieces for cooking. The portions not immediately eaten are smoke-dried and put aside for another occasion. The teeth are extracted and made into necklaces by the women. Sometimes the skin is used for drumheads. |
This is one of scores of descriptions of congo basin cannabilism.
I fail to understand why racists trying to falsely paint a picture of savages would consistenly ascribe cannabilism to the Congo Basin tribes, and consistently NOT to scores of tribes in other parts of Africa; in dozens of documents written by English, French, German, Dutch, Belgian and American authors unfamiliar with each others works.
Instead, you choose to follow Arens crapology, who posits that canniblism is a myth and then seeks to prove it, and denies that it took place at all, even on Easter Island or New Guinea.
It is PC rubbish, and it is beneath you.
The PC are really just like conservatives. They don't think. They "know". Then they pick and choose facts, embrace supportive rumours, and string them together with rhetoric instead of logic to support what they "know."
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Dr Strangelove
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quote:
Originally posted by The Mad Viking
Henry Wellington Wack, 1905
The Story of the Congo Free State
A very detailed and balanced book, as free of bias as one can expect from a western source a century ago.
He describes over 100 tribes in his book, but alleges cannabilistic habits to only "a few".
This is one of scores of descriptions of congo basin cannabilism.
I fail to understand why racists trying to falsely paint a picture of savages would consistenly ascribe cannabilism to the Congo Basin tribes, and consistently NOT to scores of tribes in other parts of Africa; in dozens of documents written by English, French, German, Dutch, Belgian and American authors unfamiliar with each others works.
Instead, you choose to follow Arens crapology, who posits that canniblism is a myth and then seeks to prove it, and denies that it took place at all, even on Easter Island or New Guinea.
It is PC rubbish, and it is beneath you.
The PC are really just like conservatives. They don't think. They "know". Then they pick and choose facts, embrace supportive rumours, and string them together with rhetoric instead of logic to support what they "know." |
It should be noted that the Belgian Congo gained a conspicous notoriety for its horrendously cruel treatment of its natives, so much so that the King of Belgium recieved letters of censures from virtually every goveernment of Europe. Belgian industrialists and plantation owners took natives as virtual slaves and forced them to work under conditions without the slightest regards for the native's health or lives. Tribes that resisted were brutally tortured and slaughtered. Families were taken hostage to ensure the enthusiasm of the workers. The mistreatment of Africans by the Belgians became the excuse for the gobbling up of the whole continent by the other colonial powers, as they scrambled to take the hapless natives under their "protection". I would deeply suspect the writings of a white man involved with colonial Africa during this period. People who abuse and persecute other people are well know to fabricate all sorts of rationalizations to excuse their treatment of their victims.
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Firelad
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Haifa, Israel.
May 2002
time: 07:34
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About humour etc. - we tell holocaust jokes all the time. At least my friends do. The kind of people I hang out with. They do get carried away with it occasionally, forgetting that there are other funny things in the world apart from holocaust-themed Audience Participation Lines at Rocky.
NM.
I like that joke btw. It's quite amusing.
And it's 10,000 BANJO PLAYERS at the bottom of the ocean, please!
(Me amateur banjo player btw. Only banjo players like banjo jokes.)
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Pax
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This joke is not funny.
I heard it a long time ago.
Not racist in present form. I did not see a black person. If you mention cannibals I think of the Pacific Islands. Probably from too much gilligan's island. When I hear sodomy I think of Greeks and Romans.
Comedians like Chris Rock may make everyone laugh but they are not saying the same things to every person that hears it. A lot of his comedy speaks on things that are bothering him as an 1. American 2. Black 3. Man 4. New Yorker and etc. You may connect on different levels. Lastly, his comedy speaks to things to change, to discuss, to think about. It's without malice or hate.
The BMW joke. Black man's wish racist
The Womback joke, Black guy helping a guy back his car in "Womback!!!" racist
Archie Bunker personifying bigotry to show American society how ridiculous it is- not racist
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19-02-2004 03:07
I wonder who.......? 
) but whether or not stereotype jokes which of the Congo-bungabunga etc.-type are racist or not and I say as long as they aren't based on any reality, they are racist.
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