Saturday 7 December 2013

The baboon storms the mountain

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Current feminism is really very boring indeed. Identity politics is psychological corruption. I just pointed out to some guy that when Richard Dawkins, in a mode of rightwing identity politics, makes fun of Luce Irigaray, by pointing out (as this black Zimbabwean presumes), her alleged lack of intellectual acumen, this is not different from when the white minority leader, Ian Smith, counteracted the protests of blacks storming parliament by singing, Bobbejaan Klim die Berg. Some say he meant nothing political by it, but the Afrikaans words mean “baboon climbs the mountain”. It could be a funny joke under the circumstances, or it might not be, but many ignorant male people are now reinforced in their views that women cannot be philosophers. And, of course, Smith suggested that blacks would be ready to rule in about 1000 years.

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