On this day in 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred at a police station in Sharpeville, South Africa when police fired into a crowd of anti-apartheid protesters, killing 69 people and injuring at least 180 more.
The protests were organized by the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), a black nationalist rival to the African National Congress (ANC). More than 20,000 protesters showed up at the police station in opposition to apartheid.
The unarmed crowd was met with armored police armed with Sten submachine guns and Lee–Enfield rifles. After F-86 Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers flew low over the crowd, within a hundred feet of the ground, in an attempt to scatter it, the crowd began throwing rocks at police.
The police responded by opening fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others. 29 children were casualties of the violence, and many people were shot in the back as they fled.
A storm of international protest followed the Sharpeville shootings, including sympathetic demonstrations in many countries and condemnation from the United Nations. Sharpeville marked a turning point in South Africa's history; the country found itself increasingly isolated in the international community.
The Sharpeville Massacre contributed to the banning of the PAC and ANC as illegal organizations. The massacre was one of the catalysts for a shift from passive resistance to armed resistance by both of these groups.
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Reported an account for racist ass eugenics shit and got this expected but kinda funny message from twitter
Hello,
After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know SkullMeasureHQ hasn’t broken our safety policies. We know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for. If this account breaks our policies in the future, we’ll notify you.
Lmao literally skullmeasure
“We’re sorry it doesn’t seem TurboHitler88 has violated any of our policies”
Literally the same shit I go through on facebook reporting accounts. It's techbro centrism, wherein the account won't be banned if it's doing dogwhistles. It needs to explicitly say "I love hitler and wish to genocide jews" to even begin to be banned.
yeah in all my years ive got one account banned and its only bc the dumb fuck basically said some shit like that and had a photo of the train tracks into auschwitzt as his banner
It feels like "dumb ass 4chan /pol/ poster who's out and proud in his groyper nazism on social media" are few and far between, most of the young neo-nazis are constantly cooking up new dog whistles and giants like facebook and twitter just don't give a shit.
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In clueless suburban boomer news, my coworker claimed he just learned that the phrase "jew down" in context of negotiating a price, was offensive to some people. :nkrumah-baffled:
- ive never heard that phrase but thats fucked up
- this one is particularly obviously bad, but
- in general if people dont realize something is offensive until someone tells them, i dont think thats usually all that damning as long as they're willing to change. we all have stupid shit we overlook but you gotta be willing to self-crit and grow
but still, wtf who would say that lmao
it's a fucking great title. imagining what it would take for atlas to shrug with the weight of the world on his shoulders is probably the only good bit of writing rand ever pulled off
"Zeus deletes Tinder" would be more fitting if the title is meant to evoke a feeling of "Damn, the situation is that fucked up?".
The cherry on top was his own daughter who's unhinged herself being like dad stop.
The social movement in France is getting fucking serious. The cops have been fucking unleashed (a few representative video examples there, all from the last few days - ignore the awful sub though, and also CW violence obviously) and it's a matter of time before there's a death if this continues. Today Macron decided to address the country publicly - at the 1pm national news TV journal, basically when most people watching are retirees - and just piled contempt upon contempt (daring the compare the current protests to the US's January 6th for example, among other things; also thinly suggesting the long-term-unemployed are also to blame). Of the police violence, no mention, of course - despite official protests by, among many others, Amnesty International, a galaxy of human rights non-profits, and french judges.
People are very very pissed off, in a way I haven't seen before; tomorrow is the next big strike (mind you, there are protests and direct actions every single day at this point - despite mainstream news not covering a lot of it).
That video was infuriating to watch. Solidarity to everyone out there. I hope they make Macron regret forcing that law through
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Reject peaceful protest. Return to tradition :onechoppyboi:
r/moretankie196 got taken over by vaushites :deeper-sadness:
went to hexbear for more slop, website is down :sadness-abysmal:
Anyone wanna start a podcast with me so that we can invite matt christman on when we get like low triple digit listeners
He does go on the weirdest podcasts lmao. A true auteur of his craft.
id imagine getting emailed from people who legit love you and tell you they are the reason they are doing this new podcast makes the guilt of saying no to high for many of us betas.
:sweat: Me running into my landlord at the grocery store when he asks me what i'm planning on cooking with 8 blocks of lard
"Is your vision okay? How many fingers am I holding up?"
:waltuh::waltuh::waltuh::waltuh:
I think it’s so funny that “Act of God” is basically a legal term. My friend’s lease says they’re responsible for paying for plumbing repairs unless a plumber signs off saying it was due to “defective plumbing, tree roots, or an act of God.”
Full support to plumbers, skilled people doing a very important job, but I don’t think they’re qualified to determine what an act of God is. If that’s the cause I think you need to accept a letter from a priest! “Yeah, I asked God if he broke the plumbing, he said yes.”
god can do anything he wants except control tree roots or make plumbing defective so they had to list those separately
Comrades, I’m depressed.
The “org” I’m in sucks. We can’t put together a D&D game, let alone a revolution.
I’ve tried to join PSL three times, and they never call. I get a lot of emails from them, so I know the submission went through.
I joined CPUSA, and, at the new member orientation, someone asked what to do if you don’t want to slavishly support the DNC, and the cochair of the national org said to join a different org, so I quit.
Comrades, I’m depressed. I keep coming to the conclusion that it’s time to give up on my dreams. I don’t have politically active friends outside of the “org” I mentioned. I’ve run into some “anarchists” that were just radlibs, but no ML’s.
I started reading Camus’s Myth of Sisyphus because I’m depressed and slipping into nihilism, and Camus sucks.
I decided I’m not quitting my job to go back to school because, honestly, it’s really easy for how much they pay me, and I still can’t figure out a major in my mid 30’s.
I don’t know what to do anymore, and I don’t just want to be hug boxed but I’m kind of at my wits’ end here.
Comrades, I’m depressed.
unfortunately 99% of politically active people will not be as cool as some of the posters on Hexbear. thankfully it's 2023 and everything is changing very quickly, so just hold on a little bit longer, comrade, a new age is upon us
idk, I hope I'm wrong but my experience is that hexbear, being an internet forum, doesn't exactly encourage real organizing offline. whereas if you find a local food not bombs, you'll meet a lot of people who may not 100% agree with your ideology but who will have your back to the hilt in a confrontation with the cops or the fash, whether it's just to oppose the latter, or to protect the encampments of the unhoused. we're only going to build a successful party if we can organize the people actually doing work into something greater than the loose network of affinity groups and collectives that have taken root in one's place. anarchists, for all the shit they get on here, are good people doing deeply necessary work - if you can't find like-minded MLs, it's a different avenue that's worth a shot.
That reminds me gotta call my ISP because my deal is about to expire. They apparently no longer do contracts, but you still need to call their sales team to be locked into the "deal" price lol.
It's really nice just never having to worry about latency or download speeds ever. Sometimes people will be like "Oh you're playing game I will download hte game and play with you" and I'm like "Cool" expecting it to take an hour or two and five minutes later they're like "Done"
Americans actually think they were Mandela fans from day one. Day one began in 1994.
The US blocked all sanctions on the apartheid nation from happening until 1986.
