I watched Lauren Southern’s documentary ‘Farmlands’ last night, focusing on the seizure of white farmers land in South Africa (and often their brutal murders as well). An interesting situation, particularly as it shadows Zimbabwe who have come out the other side of the same problem – same problem being after they’d killed a number of the white farmers they realised they needed them and invited the remaining ones back. I imagine it was a hard pass on that RSVP.

The documentary begins with an unresolved question in the viewers mind, is Lauren Southern hot or not? It’s hard to tell at the start, especially when she decides to revisit/rewrite South Africa’s history with what she calls ‘settlement’. According to her, the settlers landed and made a deal with the locals, a deal the locals went back on. But because a deals a deal, hundreds of years later – ignoring that pesky little bit of suffering under Apartheid – the land totally belongs to the whites. Which is like saying Native Americans have no claim to American land, “Because we gave them blankets damn it!”

Regardless, a horrible situation and well done to her for covering this issue. Two take aways. One, the cameraman needed to clean his lens. And two, I dunno, she’s kinda sorta hot, maybe?