User:Kierano/AlcatelWatch

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Contents 1 List of Diffs 1.1 Insertion of racist terms 1.2 Inserting unsubstantiated, POV "facts" 1.3 Other obstructive behaviour

[edit] List of Diffs

[edit] Insertion of racist terms

• Changing "raiders" to "raiding kaffirs". Although "kaffir people" was used historically to refer to a segment of the native South African population, it is now an ethnic slur, and even then was quite poorly-defined. diff

• Used to try to illustrate racial segregation in commemorating the Battle of Blood River, using factually incorrect information (see below) diff Subsequently "legitamised" by capitalising the word. diff

• Stating that the meaning of the name of the Mpumalanga province was in "a local kaffir language" diff

• Creating a whole page, with frequent usage of the term "kaffir", and claims that boers were more successful due to a difference in IQ. (The reference used seems to be a favourite of white supremacists) original version

[edit] Inserting unsubstantiated, POV "facts"

• Johannesburg being the most dangerous city in the world diff
• Removing statement that non-whites couldn't vote. (A virtually powerless separate government was put in place for Coloured and Indian people, but only in the 80's).diif
• Rephrasing of another page, on the same premise [1]
• Changing "the first Democratic Elections in 1994" to "the start of black rule" diff
• Totally unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that the government plans to drop "Natal" from "KwaZulu-Natal", because it is of Afrikaans origin. (It actually originated from Portugese explorers, and the province was better known for being under English control...) diff
• Calling the current government incompetent. (OK, the sentence expanded was pretty poor to begin with.) diff
• Adding the "fact" that the "Day of the Vow" was called "Dingane's Day" by "blacks" (first edit was a racial slur, see above). (Presumably because it had a Zulu name in it, (s)he assumed it must have been used by Zulus.) A little investigation turned up that this was in fact an Afrikaner name for the day. diff

[edit] Other obstructive behaviour

• Moving kaffir (ethnic slur) to Kaffir (South African usage), regardless of there being mention on the page of its use in Jamaica, and of there being a higher-level disambiguation page. It is likely that the user was in some sense trying to legitamise the use of an extremely offensive term. diff

• Uploading [2], [3] and using [4], [5] disturbing images to make a point.

• Creating a page to be a political soapbox, incorporating racist terminology [6], then reverting back to the original biased version more than three times when other users attempted to rewrite the page page history.