Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 04/01/2025 07:30, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

In short, the 'racism' picture even in the southern
   USA was not as simple and monolithic as the usual
   rhetoric/media likes to portray. Reality would not
   be as 'politically useful'.

I found the same in South Africa.
Very complex relationships. Much affection on both 'sides'
But the Rooinek Afrikaner farmer who told me at a party that 'they don't have *souls*, you know'  summed it up. He had dogs, he had cats and he had Africans. All more or less wild creatures to be looked after.
It was all falling apart anyway, but the Marxists came along, stirred it up, taught everyone hatred, and made a great big disaster, and have been in power ever since., although there are signs that the Africans and other 'races' are falling out of love with them.
The most salient thing I learnt was that the white European/American 'liberals' had absolutely no frickin idea of what it was all about.
They just jumped on the simplistic bandwagon of 'political emancipation' achieved it, and then dumped the whole mess into the hands of the people living there.
It's important to remember that the Africans who became slaves were the ones that were too fat or too stupid to run away when the next door tribe came to 'harvest' them and sell them for cash.
The ones that stayed are pretty damned smart.
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“It is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell