OPINION
The EFF's smashing day out
David Bullard |
14 March 2023
David Bullard writes on the looming, Fighter-enforced, "national shutdown"
OUT TO LUNCH
The threats of violence from the EFF high command ahead of 20th March 2023 on white owned businesses that dare to remain open and what might be termed ‘coconut’ enterprises sound horribly similar to what happened on Kristallnacht in early November 1938.
Back then the Nazi Kämpfer decided to destroy Jewish owned businesses and properties - in addition to synagogues - which they attacked with sledgehammers and anything else that came to hand.
The German authorities stood by and never intervened. Given the complete lack of enthusiasm for law enforcement on the part of the South African Police Service (sic) I think we can safely assume that they will stand well back once again on March 20th and should the Fighters decide to have a really smashing day out.
The EFF has already had a couple of dress rehearsals going back as far as 2018 when they completely trashed a few H&M stores in Gauteng. They also terrorised branches of Clicks for running the wrong sort of hair shampoo advert if memory serves.
The thing about an EFF demo is that most of the party followers lead frustrated and fairly pointless lives so a grand day out getting rid of all that pent up hatred and class envy is always a welcome diversion, particularly if a t-shirt is thrown in as an incentive. ___STEADY_PAYWALL___
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As my esteemed fellow scribbler WSM wrote last Saturday, the EFF have already posted a lovely pic of one of their members of the Mpumalanga provincial legislature posing with an automatic rifle with the caption “By all means necessary or possible, we are ready.” You’d have to be pretty dim to not see that as a threat wouldn’t you? Particularly as Malema adds a bit of clarification… “Let the state come with its power, we will come with our mass power … they will find us ready.”
Thus far though, not a word of admonishment from President Frogboiler which suggests that the ANC are very relaxed with the situation since it will take the common people’s minds off things like load-shedding and the cost of living.
The adults in the room will probably question how on earth a registered political party whose members of parliament pay themselves generously from the public purse can be calling for the destruction of the economy and encouraging massive damage to South African infrastructure.
To ask such a question though would reveal that one is a white supremacist, imperialist bigot married to the idea of a repressive post colonialist political system and utterly disrespectful of proud traditions such as the quest for decolonisation.
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Or to be more precise, selective decolonisation because one wouldn’t want to get rid of German luxury autos, designer clothes, Breitling timepieces and Louis Vuitton accessories even though they might attract a charge of ‘cultural appropriation’.
The important thing to remember about cultural appropriation, as Douglas Murray points out in his bestseller “The War on the West”, is that it is a one-way street. White women braiding their hair, white men with dreadlocks, white boys thinking they can rap are apparently all examples of ‘problematic’ and deeply hurtful cultural appropriation (I assume Eric Clapton playing the blues would also qualify). On the other hand, black men dressed in Jermyn Street shirts or sipping a fine Highland malt whisky are not examples of cultural appropriation. It can be terribly confusing, can’t it?
Apart from the EFF threat of widespread violence on March 20th we also have to take into account the complete lockdown of our already hobbled economy As JuJu has decreed there will be ….“no school, no university, no factory, no bus, no taxi, no trucks, no trains moving on that day”. So even if the EFF barbarians don’t get the opportunity to trash a few shopping malls and smash some display windows or set fire to businesses the economy is supposed to come to a grinding halt that day.