Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, give a man the internet and he will start any number of strange online petitions.

Now a certain Brazilian man, Rodrigo de Campos, has taken to petitioning on behalf of white South Africans, Namibians and Zimbabweans to be given automatic European citizenship. The petition has currently been signed just shy of 19 000 times and seems to be gathering steam.

So on what basis does de Campos make his argument? This directly from the change.org petition entitled ‘Allow all white South Africans the right to return to Europe’:

The white South African population currently faces ethnic cleansing and persecutions at the hands of the ANC government, the EFF, and various individual anti-white aggressors…

Based on the Israeli government’s policy of allowing all Jews the right to return to Israel, we believe it is not only advisable but morally obligatory that Europe should allow all white South Africans the right to return…

Also this would extend to whites in Zimbabwe and Namibia, given that they face a similar situation.

South Africans have been granted asylum seeker status in other countries, with 23 from 151 applicants between 2006 and last year having been successful.

Many of the people signing the petition took time to leave heartfelt messages, but political analyst Shadrack Gutto was rather dismissive. This from TimesLive:

You could petition to go to where you believe you originally came from but if you investigate further you find you came from somewhere else.

What this shows is that education is a problem. It is simply not good enough, and that is even globally.

Quite why this Brazilian man feels it is his duty to create such a petition isn’t clear, and perhaps someone should remind him of an old saying from a rather popular book. You know the one, ‘first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye’.

[source:change&timeslive]