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419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective
dasboy writes "The LA Times has an article entitled I Will Eat Your Dollars about Nigerian 419 scammers that presents some of the cultural basis for the crime. They follow some young men in Lagos who toil over computers all-day and long into the night to snag a new victim. They even have a fight song entitled 'I Go Chop Your Dollars.'" From the article: "Scammers, he said, 'have the belief that white men are stupid and greedy. They say the American guy has a good life. There's this belief that for every dollar they lose, the American government will pay them back in some way.' What makes the scams so tempting for the targets is that they promise a tantalizing escape from the mundane disappointments of life. The scams offer fabulous riches or the love of your life, but first the magha has to send a series of escalating fees and payments. In a dating scam, for instance, the fraudsters send pictures taken from modeling websites."
"Scammers, he said, 'have the belief that white men are stupid and greedy.'"
If the exact same sentiment was expressed about blacks by a white person, he would immediately be labeled a racist and have his entire world ripped apart.
But since a scamming nigger said it, it's all good.
Now mod me down you fucking idiotic, brainwashed, self-hating whites.
BLACKIE IS SUPERIOR! HE MUST PROCREATE EXPONENTIALLY AND TAKE OVER ALL LANDS IN THE WORLD FOR BLACK RULE IS THE ONE TRUE WAY! KILL WHITEY!
Right? Fuckheads.
I feel sorry for the people that think Gore or Kerry would have been any better.
What a bunch of fawking guilt-ridden whiners Slashdot has attracted. I've been on this site since it began and this is probably the last post/responses I'm ever going to read.
Why? Here is a story on how THIEVES are stealing money. And the Slashdot crowd blames who? The victims! Why? Because the victims happen to live in a society that 1) works for a living, 2) because of their work has a higher standard of living, and 3) comparably lives better than African countries, DESERVE TO HAVE their money stolen?
If this isn't white, liberal guilt run amok, I don't know what is.
NOTE TO GUILT-RIDDEN CROWD: Get over it. Some of us don't feel guilty about living in a society where our forefathers worked harder, worked smarter, and accumulated enough capital and knowledge to pass on to their descendents.
Americans don't want to hear about poverty, Americans don't really care about the poor. A generalisation, but given the last elections, is true in the majority. A typical response from an average American of the 'values' majority is 'I know what poverty is and I don't want to hear about it, I know that I wouldn't choose it for myself' - to them that's all that matters in a portrayal of poverty, that they know it's bad already and that they wouldn't choose it for themselves, and as far as the others are concerned, well, it's no concern of theirs. To them, if the poor are poor it's their fault, it's their 'moral' failure; they chose to be poor, and if they be 'moral' then wealth will be their reward - to them wealth is a blessing from the Lord, and they sure deserve it and deserve whatever they can get, even if their unethical corporations grab it from the poor of the Earth. I have talked to many 'values' Americans and repeatedly found them the least empathic people I've ever had the displeasure of talking to - it's useless to tell them about the poor. And they wonder why the world hates them; well, having talked to them, may I be forever damned if I don't hate them.