One of the strangest things about True Believers is their inability to understand what the word ‘invasion’ means. For the sake of those who have an English-reading age of less than 5, here is a widely accepted Dictionary definition of the word:
noun:
an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force
an incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity
More intelligent readers will be wondering why such a basic concept needs to be defined, but there is a long-standing determination among Defenders of the Myth to pretend that the Boer invasions of British territory in 1899 weren’t real invasions. As ridiculous as this sounds, this nonsense is even perpetuated by a couple of increasingly-frazzled so-called History Professors, such is their desperation to keep their much-loved NP myths staggering on a little longer.
As used to this laughable mindset as I am now, I was still surprised to see that some of the more fanatical / thick-headed True Believers twist themselves in knots to excuse and explain away other invasions too. I could barely control my amusement when someone made me aware of a recent exchange on Facebook; it started off with a picture of some Boer traitors who threw their lot in with Imperial Germany at the start of the Great War:
This then prompted an interesting comment by a Mr Dominic Hoole, who remarked on an oft-forgotten (and not terribly successful) German invasion of South Africa, something which pricked the outrageously ignorant John Elsegood to swing into action:
And then, just when I didn’t think there was anyone out there with even less knowledge of South African History than Elsegood, up popped a character called Frik Brits:
Yes, folks: you read that right – poor old deluded Frik Brits genuinely thinks that the German invasion of South Africa wasn’t a real invasion as it happened ‘after Botha declared war against Germany’. In fact, unable to grasp just what an utter fool he was making of himself, Frik Brits then doubled-down on his mind-blowing ignorance:
Yup: in the weird and wacky world of Frik Brits, if an invasion happens after someone declares war, then it is ‘not a[n] invasion’.
Showing a lot more indulgence of this stupidity and self-pitying nonsense than I would have managed, Mr Hoole then pointed out the blatantly obvious. As far as I am aware, Frik Brits has yet to respond, but perhaps it was past his bedtime, or he was tired of dancing on the head of a pin.
It would have been fascinating to point out to the resolutely-blinkered Frik Brits that the 1900 British invasions of the Orange Free State and Transvaal also occurred after the Boers had (with mind-blowing stupidity) declared war on Great Britain… so – unless he is an unspeakable hypocrite, as well as an ocean-going buffoon – presumably Frik Brits also insists that these were, in reality, not invasions either?
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