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sunglasses wrote:I legit got into an argumentative discussion when when Zimbabwe was its own country and when Mugabe came into power.
Short story: I was right.
Long story:
The Zim is in the news, as the military have totally not had a coup per their news reports. Someone on Tom's FB feed talked about how Mugabe helped to "rid Zimbabwe of the shackles of Colonialism and then went power hungry." So, naturally, a loud discussion ensued on when this happened. I had read a mystery novel that took place in Zimbabwe in the 2000s and the one character told the MC about how her (white) family had been chased out in the 80s and went to South Africa. So I had some knowledge of the time period from that.
Tom: "Mugabe is like 90, it had to happen in the 40s/50s"
Me: "No fucking way, Britain was still too busy dealing with a fucking war in the 40s and post war recovery. Plus they weren't forced to give up Rhodesia then."
Tom: "But they had to be trying to get rid of Colonialism then."
Me: "The anti-Colonialism movements didn't get any real teeth or traction til the 70s. MAYBE they started in the 60s, but Zim wasn't it's own country until the early 80s."
*eventually I get on History.com and wikipedia*
Me: "HA! He was a teacher in 1945. He was in jail in the 70s and Zimbabwe was its own country in 1980. ...and then he declared it was an authoritarian country in 1987. But yeah, you're right he is like, 92."
My apologies to anyone who actually was taught anything about African history beyond the dangers of the Cape of Good Hope for trade routes and why we have the Suez Canal. (We also learned about Cape Horn and why we have the Panama Canal at the same time). We really weren't taught much at all about modern African history. Least not in my schools. The most modern we got with African history was a brief skirting of the fact that there were some battles found in North Africa during WWII.
And that was my morning.
sunglasses wrote:The Zim is in the news, as the military have totally not had a coup per their news reports.
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Tesseracts wrote:In this age of falsehoods and lies, it's comforting to know some people are genuinely idiots.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
sunglasses wrote:I had read a mystery novel that took place in Zimbabwe in the 2000s and the one character told the MC about how her (white) family had been chased out in the 80s and went to South Africa. So I had some knowledge of the time period from that.
sunglasses wrote:39 years ago today, the Star Wars Holiday Special premiered.
We've been trying to forget it ever since.
Tesseracts wrote:In this age of falsehoods and lies, it's comforting to know some people are genuinely idiots.
BROWNRECLUSE wrote:sunglasses wrote:39 years ago today, the Star Wars Holiday Special premiered.
We've been trying to forget it ever since.
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Tesseracts wrote:In this age of falsehoods and lies, it's comforting to know some people are genuinely idiots.
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