Taking self-delusion to the next level

Any Quora discussion on the Boer War quickly degenerates into a few idiot True Believers screaming about ‘the camps!’, so it was a pleasant surprise to see an especially stupid one trying a different tactic. When someone pointed out that, thanks to the Boers, women and children died in the Siege of Mafeking, an unspeakably ignorant fellow frantically leapt up to deny this uncomfortable reality:

Obviously a man who cheerfully gulped down the National Party Kool-Aid, Mr Walsh starts his rebuttal with a blatant lie: Cecil Rhodes was not in Mafeking during the Siege, he was in Kimberley. Thus having proven beyond doubt that he doesn’t have the first clue about the Boer War, he then makes the unbelievably farcical claim that the poor, innocent, God-fearing invading Boers were in no way ‘responsible for the deaths of women and children in Mafeking’.

Yes: according to Mr Walsh, there is ‘no evidence’ that men who had invaded British territory and besieged the town, and who for months bombarded it and tried to starve the townsfolk into submission were ‘in any way responsible for the deaths of women and children in Mafeking’.

In the same way, presumably, that the Luftwaffe was in ‘no way responsible for the deaths of women and children during the London Blitz’. Sure, they were dropping bombs on the city, but – hey ho.

Such is the level of sheer self-delusion and utter pig-ignorance required to try to champion the National Party myths.