Here are the photos of the South African Antarctic expedition that’s been in the news recently:
From The New York Post:
Nine members of an Antarctic expedition are locked up together at a research station 2,000 miles from civilization.
And one of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassing at least two of his teammates.
The Post can reveal that the South African crew of three women and six men includes a glamorous doctor with her own skincare line and a deputy team leader who helped produce a short horror film during a previous stay at the station — along with engineers and a meteorologist.
The researchers on South Africa’s SANAE IV outpost won’t be relieved until December, when temperatures at the South Pole are at their warmest for the year and seasonal ice storms pass.
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According to urgent emails fired off to authorities from the remote base, an unidentified male member of the South African crew stuck at SANAE IV became “deeply disturbed” within weeks of arriving.
This was despite, the complainant alleged, authorities being warned about his behavior even before the team left South Africa on Feb. 1.
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The message, which was sent Feb. 27, alleged the crew member assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues, and even threatened to kill one of them, creating “an environment of fear and intimidation,” the Guardian reports.
“His behavior has escalated to a point that is deeply disturbing. I remain deeply concerned about my own safety, constantly wondering if I might become the next victim,” the email said, as first reported on by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper.
The identity of the crew member believed to have snapped was not released.
Hm. Six Negroes, an Asian, a Muslim, and a beautiful white woman. Confined together, inescapably, for 13 months in the harshest land conditions on Earth. There’s no reason to exercise a little forethought about such a crew, is there?
Quoth Divemedic:
Take 6 black men, a Muslim, a Black woman, an Asian woman, and a white woman. Put them in an isolated research station on Antarctica. What could go wrong?
The who-what-when-where of the threats and “sexual harassment” aren’t given. I can’t imagine why. Apparently the unnamed “madman” at the center of it all hasn’t been forcibly restrained by his colleagues. I can’t fathom that, either. Can you, Gentle Reader? As for what possessed a beautiful white woman to sign on for such a hitch, I decline to speculate.
But the South African “authorities” are “remotely monitoring” the situation and assure us all that it’s “under control.” Such a relief to know!
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This highlights the ultimate problem we’re all dealing with.One segment of our society quite literally lives in a make believe world. There’s shades of grey around the edges, for sure, but so many of the people simply go-along instead of thinking critically and asking if this is right or even possible.e.g. Men can get pregnant and have babies.Six black men and three women can operate a science station in remote seclusion for a year without issue. I saw something like that with that sigourney weaver chick and a big scorpion thing. It’s totally real, it was on the tee vee.They LITERALLY think wakanda was a real place, and it is lying hidden in the african jungle right now.They were told they’re special so many times they believe it.They’ve never lost – they received no grading, don’t know what a valedictorian is, and have a room full of trophies and ribbons with “You’re a winner!” on them to prove it!
Literally, live in a different world than you and me. That’s why we can’t get along. We will NEVER get along, until we both accept the same reality. Dindu’s gonna dindu, it’s just fact. That’s what the fight is all about, accepting reality or ignoring it and moving on anyways. Guarantee you someone said something at a planning meeting, or in hushed tones afterwards, but was derided in such a way to ensure they never speak up about the real world again.
So you touched on some taboos. There is one more taboo. First let me say I was in the military for 20 years during the Vietnam war. In addition to the war something else happened in that time, more women were being brought into the military. Some of those women were maybe a little naive or young and were drawn into a relationship with a black man. Once this happened a week or three later they would be “handed” off to another black man, and then another etc. We would see it all the time. Not judging, not my problem, whatever. But either by choice or by being trapped they usually did not break out of that “choice”.
So my response to why would this glamourous white women from South Africa make this choice? Because she already made the choice in South Africa and was even perhaps looking forward to being alone with the black men for 9 months. As to the threats of violence and sex. Well that too is a taboo that anyone who knows the black culture understands very well. My guess is one of those ladies refused to play the game with everyone of the black men.
They’ll never make it to Dec.