On this day in 2012, the Marikana Massacre took place when South African police fired on striking workers, killing 34 and injuring 76 in the most lethal use of force by the state in half a century.
The shootings have been compared to the infamous Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, when police fired on a crowd of anti-Pass Law protesters, killing 69 people, including 10 children. The Marikana Massacre took place on the 25-year anniversary of a nationwide strike by over 300,000 South African workers.
On August 10th, miners had initiated a wildcat strike at a site owned by Lonmin in the Marikana area, close to Rustenburg, South Africa. Although ten people (mostly workers) had been killed before August 16th, it was on that day that an elite force from the South African Police Service fired into a crowd of strikers with rifles, killing 34 and injuring 76.
After surveying the aftermath of the violence, photojournalist Greg Marinovich concluded that "[it is clear] that heavily armed police hunted down and killed the miners in cold blood."
Following the massacre, a massive wave of strikes occurred across the South African mining sector - in early October, analysts estimated that approximately 75,000 miners were on strike from various gold and platinum mines and companies across South Africa, most of them doing so illegally.
A year after the Marikana Massacre, author Benjamin Fogel wrote "Perhaps the most important lesson of Marikana is that the state can gun down dozens of black workers with little or no backlash from 'civil society', the judicial system or from within the institutions that supposedly form the bedrock of democracy."
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Furthermore, they should be barred from reposting a listing unless they have replied to all previous applicants.
Will be opening donations for my constitutionally impossible 2024 presidential run shortly 😎
There’s a company-wide meeting today and a charge in the air. I feel like layoffs are coming
Holy Crap, Lois™, this is worse than that time we had to make a condolences card tie in with the CTRL+ALT+DEL webcomic
"Gee Lois, this is just like the time we sold those baby shoes"
[Cutaway to peter standing in a dark alley. He's holding open his trench coat showing various pairs of baby shoes inside]
"never worn"
Absolutely losing my mind with some of the libs here lately. The propaganda brain. The chauvinism.
I just watched one call Saddam Hussien a genocider for that chemical attack that killed about 3 thousand people. Then turn around when confronted by the number (not mine don't know how it was arrived at) 4.5 million people the US killed in the region and they straight face said it wasn't as bad because the former was deliberately targeting a race and the latter was a misguided attempt at 'creating a new government and squashing an insurgency'. Completely flipped my shit on them.
My tankie levels are rising. I want these people in deprogramming camps.
Listen, I'm not going to start spouting off about critical support for the Baathist party or anything. But don't accuse me of diminishing anything. The poster specifically spoke of the chemical attack as a genocide. All I did was take the wikipedia number and compare their rhetoric and rationalizations
with a number four orders of magnitude larger.
No, not at all. I probably should have done more due diligence educating myself on the context of those events. I've been thinking about it for the last ten minutes or so and I can talk myself into holding the principle that war crimes wedded to genocidal acts in the same campaign can be considered a part of that genocide. Just because I'm focusing on a single event, I'm not absolved of responsibility for how I represent events. Knowing how they fit into a larger picture isn't something that should ever be ignored.
Thank you for doing me a service and checking me
I ffucking hate every employer that makes you like work until 7pm and then come back in at 7am for a morning shift. Fuck them. The sous chef Im working with is doing that today so I gotta be up early and guess what i couldn't fucking sleep
I hate every employer who makes you work and come back.
(I have a solo shift today and can't sleep)
It was 40 degrees yesterday, wake up to wildfire smoke blocking about 60% of the sun, breathing air is irritating my lungs, walk past the park filled with boomers in dark glasses having the time of their life's playing pickle ball..
I want to do so many things in minecraft.
"hey whatever happened to [user you faintly remember]? I haven't seen them in ages!"
{checks modlog]
[they were banned over 7 months ago]
oh
Some believe his spirit marches on as catholicsocialist
haven't stopped by in awhile, it's nice to see we've got PvP enabled now
just putting this thought somewhere, perhaps somebody can point me towards a thinker who has expressed this before: I feel, rather than liberals being unable to see systemic problems as being systemic at all, instead liberals see the individual as systemic (usually in enemy countres), and the systemic as individual (usually in their own or allied countries). So if a bad thing or things happen in an enemy country then that's because that's a fundamental part of their system, whereas if bad or bad things happen in their own country, those are just unfortunate little things that don't taint the wider society
For example, when faced with problems of low wages in America, rather than taking a wide-scale approach they might be like "Well, if you work hard then you can get promoted to better positions and make more money," which obviously doesn't address the fact that if everybody tried to do this then there would be nobody to work the bad but necessary jobs. But when faced with individual stories of people being repressed in Bad Countries like Russia or China or the DPRK, like via the stories of dissidents, then their individual experiences are magnified and generalized to become a systemic part of that Bad Country.
You're on to something. They do generally seem to essentialize people from bad country - there are no individuals in Russia, China, or the Dprk, everyone in those places is either an evil authoritarian communist or a victim of the regime. And often it seems they think both to be the case.
There's some loose comparison to the fundamental misattribution error in psychology to be found there but I feel like I'm only grasping at one end of a thought thread.