The premise of this satirical piece from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show is of course not entirely correct – as anyone who reads the letters pages of South African newspapers (or the comments section of this Blog!) would attest, but the way in which it mocks that arch-racist Dan Roodt is brilliant. By mocking Roodt (seemingly without him realizing), the interviewer is not giving him the power to make his racist views potent and hurtful. Roodt merely becomes a buffoon and a laughing stock – and hence powerless.
A lesson for South Africans, perhaps?
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An avid follower of John Stewart’s Daily Show, this was brilliant!!
Making such a joke of über racist Dan Roodt is welcome anytime in my book!
Prof, just one issue, the clip is not viewable outside he US, some of your readers might have an issue watching it…
it should be viewable on the average broadband connection, it’s just slow in buffering
so, press play, wait for it to start, press pause…allow the stream to buffer for 60 seconds, press play and view about 45 seconds…repeat until done (6 min +)
it’s worth the trouble…dan roodt is hilarious
p.s. even our own MDF could not have scripted this any better
I am shocked that a smug representative of the liberal media of the arch-global hegemon would glibly rate our racism as superior to anything the U.S. has to offer. This from a country where many blacks live in poverty, and more than 20% of young black males are in prison or on parole. And where open bigots like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck rule the airwaves.
This Jon Stewart lackey comes here and interviews a young coconut from the SAIRR — who assures him that racism is not an issue in South Africa.
A disgrace. A bloody disgrace!
Would the Constitutional Professor please be so kind as to provide me with his definition of ‘racist’.
@ Pierre.
Lol!
@ Dworky – hey, is that you driving the golf cart?
Brilliant!
This is reminiscent of the type of unguarded truth spouted by someone like our Julius.
The problem is always that some see the lol value while others drink in every word as gospel. Did the rest of the world not initially laugh at Hitler and Mussolini and poke fun at their ridiculous soldiers goose-stepping?
Fortunately Dan is a relatively spent force. Julius, on the other hand, seems the darling of pretty influential people — locally too. No laughing matter at all!
pierre du preez is right: this is no laughing matter
dan roodt is assembling an armed and godfearing liberation force
(they will be modelling themselves on the 1994 AWB/AVF bophuthatswana invasion force, and will spring into action as soon as they can assemble a logistically sufficient number of mercedes benzes)
p.s. brett has apparently already signed up and will head up both the armoury administration caravan as well as the legal & statistical services tent
Hey Etienne
Dworky’s quirky brand of humour seems to be rubbing off on you!
Pierre, amazing the few comments on this specific topic. Thats very good news!!
Zulani says:
July 14, 2010 at 18:09 pm
Patience!
The troops are gathering.
When it’s cheaper to have fun than looking at facts, who am I to complain?
PS. See how the world laughed at another conservative -
http://thinkingmansguidetotheworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-is-peter-schiff.html
Video footage is priceless! Dan Roodt is jut another Peter Schiff!
That’s right, Fish Eagle: let’s all fall about laughing while South Africa is circling the plughole above a vortex of gurgling anarchy.Laugh, monkeys, laugh, while the going’s good.
The problem is, even after this video, he will continue thinking that he is a leader of some sorts, acting in the best interest of the Afrikaner and is morally justifiable. Somebody must really get the message through to him that he can only speak on behalf of his “numerous” supporters.
I thought it was brilliant. Because I truly believe that the average person in SA is actually too busy living to focus on racism. It is only the politicians and media who continue to fuel these fires.
Spend a day or two with the working classes and try to find out whether they have the time or inclination to worry about racism. I’ll guarantee you that most of them don’t.
The simple fact of the matter is that this video reflects a 2 1/2 hour interview – and several other interviews – all cut down to a skit lasting 6 1/2 humourous minutes.
And some people are drawing negative inferences from this ‘evidence’.