I Think South Africa's Xenophobic Attacks are Great!

what do you mean by xenophobic. i have not heard of that. anyways, i haerd so many bad news today about SA. how they are attacking those illegal migrant from zimbabwe. hopefully that they will going to accept those people. as they are also people. but i really can understand if they really reject those people. but wish that they will have more love for other poor people. well i think that south africa is really one progressive country. and that they don't want their economy ruined by those illegal immigrants.

I know that the moral response is supposed to be "Oh no, you can't kill people!" but you do have a point. Jobs are opened up, thus lowering the unemployment rate. However, those jobs will be filled by people that are probably less qualified to do them (there is a reason that they did not have the job originally).

If someone goes out to a job interview and gets the job, they are probably better for it even if they are foreign. It would be so much more useful if the masses involved in causing the xenophobic attacks just dropped dead instead.

Then there is the moral response which is supposed to be "Oh no, you can't say people should die..."

Hi Henjin,
You clearly have no idea what damage these xenophobic attacks caused in our country! You are entitled to your opinion of course . . .
Unfortunately I do not agree with you. You see this is my opinion, the foreigners that the South Africans are attacking, killing and chasing out the country are not taking anyone's job but doing jobs that most South African do not want to do. It is by law that a company should not employ an illegal resident (foreigner) unless no South Africans are available to take on that particular job, so the government is not offering jobs to them. Private companies on the other hand struggle with South Africans that do not want to work (choosy, picky, lazy ... whatever the case may be)and resort to employing these hardworking, dedicated and ambitious people instead.
Xenophobic attacks are nothing but a sad story that South Africa has to undergo at the moment. I truly believe that South Africans are venting their frustrations at the wrong people, we need to channel this energy into creating something positive and not killing each other like animals in the wild. What are we doing??

Henjin, might I question your motives for saying that these Xenophobic attacks are creating job oppertunities? On a completely different note, remember the attacks in Zimbabwe against the farmers? Look where Zim. is now - an inflation of 100 000%, and yet there is nobody who can even try and produce a crop because the farmers were persecuted and 'removed'. Do you really want South Africa to move in that direction? Do you really want these attacks to spread to tourists when the 2010 Soccer World Cup takes place? Do you really want all of those people to live in fear of others?

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Henjin and Pirate_Arg, I going to tell you about yourselves and then you will tell me how wrong I am.

You seem to come from a medium to high income backround urban environment, you possibly went to a good government school or perhaps a private school where you spent most of your time on a computer. You have never left the country and the traveling you did around South Africa has been inside a car and inside hotels. You think your view of life is fine and you think you know enough about South Africa.

You are 18 years old. Have you even left school yet?

Now, you claim xenophobia is not such a bad thing as it creates jobs, have you ever had a job? I'm not talking about washing the dishes at home job for R10 from your mom, I'm talking about making a living to support yourself?

Do you have any idea what that's like? Do you think it's easy, especially in another country?

Do me 2 favours please, as a fellow South African who shares this country with me and foreigners, appreciate, like me, that you don't know whats best for the country at your nieve age. Secondly, go on a gap year to work and be independant if you have the courage. It will change your thinking.

But judging from your posts, you have no prospects of changing your thinking. But I want you to realise this.

Just remember, maybe one day, after the foreigners are all kicked out, the white 18 year old males will be targeted and some 15 year old coloured from Athlon will say:

"I think South Africa's white male attacks are Great!"

It puts things in perspective if you're willing to see.

Anyway, enjoy all the attention you're getting in the meantime. Jackass.