It seems that there was pointedly little to no racial policy, just an Anglophone-specific meritocracy that was being a ballache to get the locals on-board with. Cultural discrimination, not ethnic.
So,they supported racist black marxists.Who turned their country into shit.With secret police trained by North Korea.
...The exact opposite, in fact. Rhodesia lagged behind, so the home front turned on them. For standing by the system the home front set up.
And now it opposed it. So they had a duty to obey commands, if they were really so loyal to the home front. But they didn't, so they should spare us the whining.
For nearly forty years prior to decolonization Rhodesia was self-governing, and the decolonization process was just "go take care of yourself" with nothing done to make any changes to that self-governance. There was no such order when such an order meant anything, and yet once there was no meaning to such an order it was being insisted upon at considerable expense.
Then why complain about how they only kept the old system because they were ordered to?
...The people in charge were mostly born after self-government. Their entire life was under the old system of the vast majority of affairs of state being handled locally. The new system being pushed was "burn all of that down and bend over for the demonstrably uneducated masses you've spent generations incrementally dragging up". Do tell how many African countries that worked for.
How do you have a stable industrial country in overt denial of any attempt at educating the population in how to work in one? Because that's the point at issue. And I'd say that the people pushing for revolution by strict racial interests back in Britain were far more racist than the lot who went for a pure wealth qualifier that saw the slowly growing African middle class on the same level as any white man.
How the fuck is the British Parliament writing the angry letters and blockading ports to embargo oil a shadowy cabal?
You should spare us your whining.
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But seriously, the universal ailment of the modern age is that it was born of utopian, "progressive" ideas, which could never withstand the test of reality. The whole notion that the world -- and Man, too -- can be shaped and re-shaped to suit one's ideology stems from this terrible origin. It's caused the excesses of the French revolution, it's caused the deranged swerves that philosophy has taken, it's caused the insanely childish world-view of progressive liberals... and it's caused the certainly no-less-mad extremes of socialism, communism, nazism and similar ideologies. All rely on a fundamentally utopian view: WE can re-make it all in OUR image!
And anyone who tries to look at the world as it is, rather than how the utopians want it to be will be branded a heretic. A traitor to the cult of utopia.
Rhodesia was too sane to be anything but wicked in the eyes of modernity.
Yes, so it does.
Indeed.But there is difference between country ruled by normal capitalists who actually care about society and country ruled by grandkids of revolutionists who survived purges,and do not care about anybody but their needs.And behave like parody of real capitalist from commie propaganda.
Except Rhodesia was explicitly not an apartheid state if I’m understanding it correctly. It did not discriminate on racial lines but rather along the lines of wealth and education.
Rhodesian segregation was apparently a good deal more informal than what you’d have seen in South Africa, but it was there. Black Rhodesians were infantilised quite badly and seen as servants (as I understand, there were laws against them having sex with white people), with the voting system suspiciously weighting the vote in favour of whites. Blacks weren’t allowed to live in white areas, or go to white schools, and didn’t have as much in the way of “workers rights.” It must be emphasised that armed rebellions on that scale don’t come out of nowhere.
Funnily enough, a lot of modern Zimbwabeans agree with you. Yeah, can’t say they were happy about the political arrangement back then (for obvious reasons, let’s not mince words. I’ve heard tales of the police liberally using beatings) but they do believe things were far better run due to the absence of blood crazed Marxist lunatics in the halls of power. Many blacks in the Rhodesian Army certainly felt “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” and bugger me were they proven right.
And in hindsight we know that this and other heavy concessions to the "antiracists" by western countries, like extensive regulations, affirmative action programs and the like, still have not sated the demands and support to anti-western communist movements by the specific part of the public involved in such outcries.
Oh but the western establishment and talking head class are absolutely capable of shutting the hell up and having decent enough relations with rather illiberal, non-utopian countries if they want to, like Egypt, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, not to mention the visible even on the grandest scenes of international politics "Russia normalization" faction, Iran appeasers and many China simps.You should spare us your whining.
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But seriously, the universal ailment of the modern age is that it was born of utopian, "progressive" ideas, which could never withstand the test of reality. The whole notion that the world -- and Man, too -- can be shaped and re-shaped to suit one's ideology stems from this terrible origin. It's caused the excesses of the French revolution, it's caused the deranged swerves that philosophy has taken, it's caused the insanely childish world-view of progressive liberals... and it's caused the certainly no-less-mad extremes of socialism, communism, nazism and similar ideologies. All rely on a fundamentally utopian view: WE can re-make it all in OUR image!
And anyone who tries to look at the world as it is, rather than how the utopians want it to be will be branded a heretic. A traitor to the cult of utopia.
Rhodesia was too sane to be anything but wicked in the eyes of modernity.