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sordfysh -3 points ago +4 / -7

What does SA have to do with the US?

Even affirmative action is potentially going to be stricken down by the SC soon. The US has never done the imminent domain reparations BS that SA did.

Besides, Black Americans have little in common with Africans besides long prior ancestry. White Americans of german ancestry are not more likely to be fascists.

Where do you get these beliefs that racism in Africa has anything to do with the US? We're not even talking about remotely similar groups of people beyond the color of their skin.

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IamM 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's a great "testing area" of sorts, as in life and nature things that don't work in the small scale tend to work exponentially worse in larger and larger batches (see: socialism). What South Africa has shown is that in a society that gives one race massive privileges over another through government involvement, crime rates skyrocket and quality of living goes down.

Ultimately, if black americans want to raise a family in peace they should be allowed to in America. That being said they also need to play by the rules set by said country, and shouldn't think that they should get any preferential treatment.

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sordfysh 2 points ago +3 / -1

Exactly. Black families, especially the ones who are joining the Trump train in droves, just want the American dream of working hard and having a family. And they're getting the hell out of the Democrat cities.

South Africa is more like a combination of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. They bolshevik'ed and then persecuted a group of upstanding people who had nothing to do with wealth disparity. And they got the worst of both worlds. Fucking morons.

But there's nothing similar about black revolutionaries in Africa and the American-raised metaphorical descendants of Frederick Douglas. Look instead to Myanmar, India, or Brazil for racial issues if you are looking for things more similar to US racial issues. You can't even compare Europe because Europe has an immigrant problem, not a racial issue.

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fdagasfd 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are differences in individual historical figures in both countries, but I think the larger topic he's discussing is specifically racial politics and racial scape-goating.

The US isn't Africa, sure, but if the exact same thing is happening (scape-goating an entire race for problems they cannot factually be tied to) it's reasonable to assume or expect similar results.

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sordfysh 2 points ago +2 / -0

I totally agree. Don't scapegoat any race. If you want to blame a group of people, blame them based on their ideology.

The racist liberals, the antifa thugs, gang culture, victimhood. Good things to call out.