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[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everyone of race X who lived in location Y at time Z thinks the same

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.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.