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Who could have guessed that the rich white South African would turn out to be a white supremacist?
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And Space Karen also believes he has diplomatic immunity.
Fuck off. Being South African has nothing to do with this guy’s bullshit.
Edit: ppl downvoting this fact without even attempting to back up the contrary are idiots and cowards.
I don't think they're saying each item individually.
Sorry but, no. Stereotypes are bad.
He's a white supremacist. That's all that matters here.
Except South Africa has a specific history where being a white South African, raised in the era in which he was raised, can be expected to have a very relevant influence on how he sees the world.
No. This is textbook bigotry. You're literally implying all white people around his age who were raised in South Africa are just like him.
That's fucked up.
Look, my last comment left out the word "rich", the original I replied to used it. As far as I'm concerned, any rich white South African from the apartheid era is sus as fucking fuck, at a bare minimum. Onus is on THEM to prove they aren't monsters.
If that's bigotry to you, you have a lot of growing up to do. This kind of nonsense purity testing is the reason the left remains a fucking meme.
ETA: Ah, you even put words in my mouth, "just like him". Did I make such a claim? What I said in the first place is that growing up that way would definitely influence how someone sees the world. So the ridiculous hair-splitting you're doing isn't even close to accurate, you had to invent a comment I never made to throw your bad take at. Yikes.
Imo the rich part matters too
It matters in the same way that fire can kill you. If you're in a house fire, you died of smoke, not fire. But.....fire can still kill you, and is dangerous.
Wut?
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Where the attitude comes from matters a lot actually. It informs the conversation and gives relevant context that can be used to determine the veracity of the claim that, no he's not just some awkward guy making a weird gesture, he's a fucking rich white South African who grew up believing that some people are more important than others.
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The (white) African I know said that virtually all south Africans they spoke with would be casually racist without a thought about it
Doesn't make it true for all white South Africans.
If we're ever going to move forward, I think we need to stop seeing others as only members of various groups, each of which we have prejuidces about.
Not all white South Africans are rich.
Darthelmet specifically talked about rich white South Africans.
And in the time that musk’s family lived in South Africa, apartheid was still a thing.
No one here is doing that. What was said is that if a south African does a racist thing, you shouldn't go out of your way to give them benefit of doubt.
Of course it's "not all "
Stereotypes are bad.
Patterns are real.
Judge every individual as an individual
Still protect yourself and know the odds.
Educate yourself on the real odds.
The US saw the civil rights act get passed in 1964. 60 years on, we're still horribly racist on the whole, especially among the super wealthy. South Africa has only been on the mend for 30 years. It's a very good bet that they're not different.
WHO is downvoting this??? You're absolutely right!
I am! Because the fact that his family, the figures he looked up to, and he himself, all directly benefitted from the system of apartheid that was a specific integral part of the system in South Africa from which they derived their gains?
That is relevant in the same way that saying "he was born in Alabama in the 1850s, is the son of a slaveholding knight of the golden circle, and owns a lot of bedsheets with eyeholes cut in them" would be a valid set of concerns, all of which can be used as valid identifiers that, why, yes, these add together to paint a picture of the culture that this hypothetical man is most likely to espouse. So when he "accidentally" lights a cross on fire while holding a rope with a slipknot in his offhand, do we really think that the tied slipknot at the end of his rope is to lead cattle, or is it more likely that he intends to lynch someone?
That's all too many words. You don't need all the exposition. You know how you know the guy you described is a racist? By the the fact that he's a racist. Doing racist things.
All that other stuff is extra padding.
Sorry use many words. I see question, think want answer. Am wrong?
Depends on your goal. Short communications make bigger impacts.
You're right! You know what I could have said instead?
See the flaw in using too few words?
I don't see any flaw. The meaning of that sentence is very clear.
If the post lead with that then maybe there wouldn't be any complaints.
It literally DOES start with that! That's the top level comment, word-for-word, which at least two people were too thick to understand. So yes, I gave a longer explanation, like I apparently must also provide to you.
You asked "Am wrong?".
The content was fine but Your post was not as clear as the top post. That's what was wrong.
Yes, I added shiny metaphors, explications and implications, because the subtext of the original post was apparently utterly lost on both of them.
Why use many word when few do trick? Because some people don't understand the few words.
Says someone who's brain is rotten from the internet. "Nah miss me with those books fam, if you can't say it in one sentence like a viral tweet then I simply can't use my brain."
You wrote a lot of words, but your argument is unclear.
Don't conflate an argument being unclear, with you having trouble understanding it
Don't assume anything about anyone you've just met.
I've made no statement about you. So, your response is a bit weird.
That was a "you" statement.
The argument is that the explanation was valid, and whether or not you found it valid, is more to do with your inability to get it. Now, this isn't saying anything about you, because you might get it. So, the "you", is not the particular you, but rather "one such that would meet the requirement". But hey, you do you.
Is not a clear explanation.