I heard an interview with a Mugabe supporter on the radio. When asked about farm nationalization, he said it was an unequivocal good. Was it? Clearly not. Mugabe isn’t the only crazy one. He’s a crazy figure head of a crazy segment of his society.

Here’s a little controversy for you: Look at the impact – the KKK versus young black criminals. Which group has killed more black men? Which group has done more economic damage to black society? After 9/11 we started wars in two countries over the death of less than 5,000 people, while 42,000 die each year on Federal highways because we can’t keep our roads safe.

When we get caught up in the blame game we lose sight of the impact. What matters is the impact. Why? Because focusing on the impact is how we really change the situation on the ground.

Rather than argue principles, focus on accountability and impact. Colonial or self rule – hate groups versus criminals – an unjust occupation versus political stability… let’s not make a moral drama of these problems, let’s talk about the impact.

I don’t know what the point is of an argument that places brutality under colonialism above brutality after colonialism except to say that black people are somehow more depraved. The crux of the argument is ultimately that colonialism is in itself somewhat justified by racial difference, which is in itself a social construct. It’s somehow less fucked up for white people to do what they did during colonialism because, they weren’t “doing it to themselves”?

I simply don’t know any of these liberals who defend Mugabe’s brutalization of his own people. But even if these people do exist, I find it equally abhorrent that the most important argument people like Megan and her buddy feel compelled to engage in while Mugabe is butchering the people of Zimbabwe is whether or not the white supremacist regime was slightly better.

What kind of fucked up ass self-aggrandizement is that? And how is it any different from the self-serving arguments of these liberals are making? In either case, these people are tooting their own horns–conservatives at what they see as the superiority of “white western culture”, of which they see themselves as its most stalwart guardians, and liberals at their own “enlightened tolerance”.