What in the fresh hell is this?

Updated — 5 pm EDT: I was going to simply ignore the racist’s feckless nonsense here… but it continued to… eat at me, this afternoon, on the train.

Hinderaker links a video by a racist, to suggest that the “problem” with Papua New Guinea’s relatively impoverished per capita annual incomes (compared to near neighbor Australia, no less — and… its plunderer, for ~400 years!)… is… wait for it!… due to poor economic policy “freedoms” — in the post-1970s local Papua- governance.

The nation is a democracy — with a five year election cycle. It is not a socialist state. [So even the premise — bashing a “socialism-first” approach is… false.]

But more directly, for well over a thousand years (into the last century), in serial fashion… the Chinese, then the Dutch, then British expats in Australia, and then the Brits themselves… exploited and almost universally enslaved the indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea.

In the last century (after the formal end of slavery), British and Australian forces exploited most of the oil and mineral wealth of the nation (for a mere token-style of compensation to the locals — and in many cases, nothing at all), leaving only scraps behind. Then came independence from the British Crown in 1975.

And these feckless a-holes run screens of grass and bamboo huts, and dirt roads… and blame it all on a post 1975 democratic form of self-governance.

This is simply… lunacy.

And a refusal to accept responsibility for plunder, of a weaker neighboring nation.

D A M N A T I O N.

Out.