3 ms·

> If it was one-sided, it was in favour of the Apartheid regime. Who committed most of the crimes (and by far the worst crimes) back then? Definitely not the

• _djo_ 2y ago
  When talking about crimes committed by or on behalf of organisations the answer is by far the apartheid regime and its security forces. They brutalised & terrorised the majority of the population for decades in order to uphold a racist white minority regime, murdering many people in the process. I’m astounded that you think this is even a debatable point.
  • deisteve 2y ago
    Its not so clear cut and dry. Even Nazi Party had considerable support from Americans seeing many of its corporations took party in atrocities. Simply writing off South Africa as racially politicized event is lazy.
    • _djo_ 2y ago
      It is exactly that cut and dried: We have primary source accounts from the architects and implementers of Apartheid where they outlined their rationale and their beliefs that black South Africans were inherently morally, intellectually, and culturally inferior in every way to white South Africans. They banned racial iteractions to absurd degrees, forbidding interracial marriages, dancing, education, and a host of other things. They forced black South Africans into intentionally inferior education systems, the so-called 'Bantu Education', designed to keep them broadly uneducated and only able to carry out semi-skilled work at best. They implemented a brutal system of repression and pass laws. I could go on and on. It was a system explicitly and unmistakably based on racism.
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]