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Social apartheid is de facto segregation, no laws are strictly necessary, but often support it. It’s most prominent aspect is seen in the division of white/blac
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Social apartheid is de facto segregation, no laws are strictly necessary, but often support it. It’s most prominent aspect is seen in the division of white/black capital. Zambia is very much a country with vastly wealthier white demographic.
“ On the eve of independence in 1964, 2 percent of Zambia’s 3.5 million people were white, but they controlled everything in a system resembling apartheid.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/04/23/black-white-zambia/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/04/23/black-white-zamb...
I’m saying Musk has a lineage of abusive behavior and was raised by those same people. It explains his exploitative and abusive behavior for workers.
- birdyrooster 6y agoThe point is that Zambia is a place white colonizers have been exploiting forever and the Musk family certainly has been doing business in south east Africa for some time.
- FredPret 6y agoIf you say he’s worthy of abuse due to his “lineage of abusive behavior” the I will say you are a racist. I’m descended from an ethnic group that has done some bad things. Am I now a bad person? For instance, are all Germans Nazis to you?
- rsj_hn 6y agoEveryone comes from a lineage that committed great violence in the competition for resources vis-a-vis other groups. If your ancestors did not do that, you would not be alive today. Let us not forget the Zambians, themselves foreign Bantu invaders who genocided the native Khoison population (but perhaps the Khoisons genocided who was there before them).
- FredPret 6y agoAbsolutely spot-on. In fact, the Xhosa tribe (a Bantu tribe famous for the clicks in their language, and for producing Nelson Mandela) got those clicks from the Khoisan tribes (the original clickers) by committing a massive genocide and taking all their land. The linguist John McWhorter gives an explanation of how this happens in his Great Courses series.
- birdyrooster 6y agoHe's not worthy of abuse, just not worthy of my purchase You are not a bad person, and I never said Elon is a bad person It's not apples to apples to compare those, and it implies a slippery slope
- FredPret 6y agoIt’s absolutely apples to apples. Don’t back track now. You proposed to treat the man differently due to his line of ancestry. That’s racist. I’ve personally experienced this line of “ethnic expectations.” All it does is to put the target in a box marked “probably racist” for no other reason than the conditions of their birth.