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The video is about killings and rapes so no its not a strawman. You are the one saying you have no sympathy for those people mentioned in the video.
There are millions of White South Africans there. Lots of then are born after apartheid so had absolutely nothing to do with it. But I guess you got some north Korean ideas on multi generational suffering.
Also there is suffering between the black fractions within Africa. For some reason people seem to group all the black people in south Africa as one homogeneous group. But some tribes absolute hate the other tribes and have killed each other just out if racism. The country is a mess.
They were born into an economic apartheid even if political apartheid has ended. And they're only 7.3% of the population.
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So what's your point here? White people deserve to be killed and raped?
Good quote. Maybe the government that has been in power for the last 30 years should have done something about that.
You're holding on to that strawman so tight your knuckles are turning white.
What point are you making then?
[Video about south Africans white and black being victims of violent crime]
You said you have no sympathy for white south Africans.
That's just an outright racist statement. Whatever happens to any white South African, what they deserve it? It doesn't matter? They had it coming? I want to know. Then you try to back up your racism with stats about poor funding from a black majority government
I'm asking you what your views are. It seems obviously to me your racist.
Some 3 year old baby gets shot and slowly bleeds to death. You don't care? Would you say that's good?
It seems clear to me you don't care what happens to any white south African because (and only because) they are white. That couldn't be more racist.
My point is that it's racist to focus on the plight of white people in a country where by any objective statistical standard white people are far better off than the rest of the country and are just a tiny minority. It's like stepping over people bleeding out to put a bandaid on scraped knee.
The white people in South Africa should have paid huge reparations. They got off easy, and now want us to feel sorry for them because they are experiencing some of the strife and violence that is the direct result of apartheid. They are like a physically abusive parent seeking sympathy when their adult children are openly hostile and struggling with mental health from the childhood abuse.
Think that video talk about everyone. The only person talking specifically about white people is you. In which you seem to be saying fuck them they all deserve it because they are white.
We're going around in circles. I made my point.