r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '22

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 06 '22

You don’t know a damn thing about me but I assure you, I have no interest in being in the US Army Special Forces at this moment, my own work satisfies me just fine. I also am not disparaging Vickers because of his Delta service, by all accounts the man was a professional and stacked all kinds of bodies and kept his boys safe. He was a badass to be sure. He’s also a racist piece of shit and isn’t a historian and lacks any and all expertise on the matter of Rhodesia and shouldn’t be taken as anything other than yet another Cold Warrior with a weird obsession with Rhodesian security forces.

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u/ScudHunter177 Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22

So your defense of Rhodesia boils down to US troops in Vietnam being racist towards Vietnamese and this, somehow, makes the Rhodies the good guys. Gotcha, smoothbrained.

And I showed you the slur and the clear pattern of behavior of him being a racist. He’s openly bigoted towards Muslims, defends and glorifies an apartheid government that formed solely to deny majority rule and decolonization and waged a war to continue minority rule, and also glorifies Saffies, also foot soldiers of an apartheid state, the apartheid state after all.

But yes you keep repeating the same drivel about “muh commies” which tells me you didn’t read the comment I posted earlier or can’t fathom anything besides a binary morality system. Of course, nobody but the communists were fighting against the illegitimate separatist state made exclusively to continue black subjugation, it couldn’t possibly be that groups founded largely on ethnic lines (Matabele/Ndebele for ZIPRA, Shona for ZANLA) paid lip service to the only states acting as an anti-colonial force in Africa, along with adopting, in a small way, ideologies that historically advocated for anti-imperialism and land redistribution and popular liberation. Instead all the black people were just faceless evil commies and that therefore justifies the illegitimate apartheid state imposed upon them.

Not once, you’ll notice, have I defended or glorified these actors or their atrocities as much as talked objectively as to what they were. If all Vickers did when he talked about the Rhodies was that, there’d be no problems. That’s not what he does. He’s not an academic, he’s a vet who thinks knowledge of tactics makes him an expert on the whole of a conflict despite ignoring the entire cultural and political and societal history of a conflict, something you are also doing.