An absurdly whiny and precious post from Kubatana on the sale of Zimbabwe dollars as a novelty item on eBay:
I wish I knew the dockworkers instrumental in stopping the Chinese weapons from being unloaded in South Africa. If I did, they might have some advice as to how to shut down the sale of Zimbabwean Dollars on eBay. Perhaps it’s not neatly parallel or fair to compare the sale of weapons to a dictatorship with a few people making money on eBay. However, there are similarities in the underlying end results. In both cases, a set of people are operating (consciously or unconsciously) with seemingly no concern around the difficult and unjust realities for a much larger set of people.
Do you understand how fucking ridiculous you’re being? Selling Z$, unlike selling guns to Robert Mugabe, has no positive impact on the Zimbabwe government – the only impact it could possibly have beyond the private transaction is to raise awareness among anyone who’s been asleep for a fortnight of how badly the dictator has fucked the country.
Oh, but it hurts our feelings to have ourselves mocked – it’s “hyper-insensitive”… Well, fuck off. I’m fully in favour of anything that could possibly help Zimbabwe, but that isn’t going to stop completely mocking the end results of Dr Mugabe’s insane policies – and the people who continued to vote for him in democratic elections up until last year hardly lack complicity in that…
