No. Don't laugh. In an open letter to shareholders, mining giant, Rio Tinto's chairman,

[Joe Chi Minh]

Jan du Plessis, in the words of a Daily Mail columnist on the City and Finance page, 'tore apart the Australian government's plans to introduce a mining super tax, saying it could hit the entire country's future prosperity'.

It's so unusual for the CEO of a multinational to feel any kind of loyalty even to their own country, that such remarkable compassion towards a foreign country is worthy of note in the cruel selfish world of big business. You shine out, Mr De Plessis, 'like a good deed in a naughty world.' NOT!

[tabatha]

1. He is also an Afrikaner.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Obviously, with that name

But does that in itself make him evil? Why do you point that out?

[provis99]

3. name any Afrikaner who isn't evil.

its like trying to name a white Southerner who isn't racist.

[Fumesucker]

4. How about Harper Lee?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007

[Scuba]

5. I know white southerners who aren't racist.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. What an abominable post

Shame on you.

[dionysus]

7. ernie els

[conscious evolution]

8. Here is the name of a white southerner that isn't a rascist

Conscious Evolution

[tabatha]

9. Nope, it does not make him evil.

But right-wingers do have a lack of empathy.
This has been studied.

I have known Afrikaners who have empathy, but they usually tend to be more liberal, like Max DuPreez.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. Yes, I noticed that, when I read up about him. He also has an ugly charge-sheet: former CEO of other

large corporations.

They all do it. It's a kind of infantilism. If you do stuff I don't like, I'll go home and take my bat and ball with me.

Trouble is, they never put it in writing and have it notarized. Michael Caine has been at the sauce again, once again whining that he'll leave the UK if he has to pay Osborne's higher capital-gains tax on personal assets - second and third homes, etc. There are a few of them. They think the country will go down the pan without them, instead of their having contributed to its demise by their rabid support of our (former) far-right governments of the past 30 years.