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I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.
If your children are old enough to work, and they don't even know about your country's most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they're at the bottom of the hiring list.
They're ignorant fucks! Lol
I mean... he didn't say they are at the bottom because they are white.
Maybe they are at the bottom of the list because they are dumb as rocks, and happen to be white. And he knows being dumb in America is no impediment, so he wants the asylum.
I mean, that's probably not what they're implying.
I read that as "when my kids who have never experienced the reality of apartheid grow up, they will be discriminated against because they are white"
The article is FULL of little bits like that to make them sound like reasonable people just trying to live. Thankfully the article also provides contrary evidence: 9.2% unemployment rate.
Rich afrikaners who are upset apartheid is gone and they now have to be treated like normal people bitching about how they now have to actually earn jobs instead of being handed one for being white, and they still have the majority of jobs.
imo, you read that with a positive interpretation.
If they were saying that, they should've said that their kids "never experienced it" or "never participated in it" or "didn't live through it".
But instead, they said their kids "don't know what apartheid is".
If they misspoke, fine. But I don't know with certainty that they meant what you said. I think they might've meant what they said.
“I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.”
Maybe you should educate them about history and then there can be a move towards reconciliation that’s helps reduce racial violence?
Trump's main minion Elon is behind these whispers into Trump's ear about his bringing over his "ilk".
also to whisper you pooped yourself again.
We don’t need more Nazis
Any bets on how quickly these folks are fast tracked to Green Card status?
Knowing him he'll probably allow them to get on that "Gold Card" track without the money as a show of "combating the horrible racial injustice" in South Africa.
Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they'll be the ones with the "millions of illegals voting" for them.
Is there a slur for white South Africans or do I need to make one?
Die Antwoord.
Zef
Why would I want these ultra racist slavers to come here when the economy is tanking so they can buy up shit cheap?
We already have one in the US that is doing just that
You think these losers are going to be buying anything ?
We have these arseholes in Australia and they are barely capable of cleaning bogs.
Because that's what amerikkka is all about.
Why would I want these ultra racist slavers to come here when the economy is tanking so they can buy up shit cheap?
Since you asked and now that I think about it, with educated and more open-minded Americans emigrating, I think Afrikaners will take their place instead...
I know what they're going to do I'm asking why would I want them?
Non-whites have 4x the employment rate and whites are whining about not being on hiring lists? And are they aware that Trump was partially elected because of people here not wanting them competing for same jobs?
What a mess we've made of our species
I am not defending it but their population metrics are crazy. They have 80% black africans from different tribes. While white people account for only 7.3% of the population. It seems more like a failure of their government than the fault of any particular race here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_South_Africa
What are you suggesting is a crazy metric?
What do you see as a failure? Specifically, what are you not defending?
I'm not sure what correlation is obvious, but I'm missing it.
We have got to revoke their refugee status after this administration. This isn't remotely valid claims.
If there even is an "after this administration", that is. I have my doubts tbh..
https://erinfongstudio.com/products/free-digital-download-of-the-fight-fascism-zine or "40 ways to fight fascism" or "don't just do nothing" are good zines about how we can ensure there isan "after this administration"
Nothing lasts forever.
"Changes aren't permanent, though change is"
There always is. Everything in life is only temporary ...
Fuck me I don't want these fuckers here.
USA can take all the racists and the rest of us will take the American refugees. Then we can finish the wall from the outside.
I suspect that Trump offering asylum to Afrikaners has more to do with USA being pissed at SA for the Gaza case than him thinking there is a "South African Genocide". He's just trying to stir the pot but generally South Africans don't take this seriously. Some people on here though...
It's a way of getting more fascists into the country.
It has added some new jokes at the braai. Also spawned arguments about who wants Elon the least.
Nice to see a fellow SAn here.
I don't know, the whole "the blacks in South Africa have physically removed white land owners. It's now illegal to be white in South Africa" shit was a major MAGA/qanon/Fox News talking point for a while.
I think this is truly just racist brain rot.
When a major political party has rallies with chants such as “shoot to kill, kill the Boer, kill the farmer”…
I’d say refugee status is appropriate.
There aren't white farm workers in South Africa. Only black Africans are doing farm labor. So who is the 'white farmer'? What does it mean? It's the farm owner who gets all the product of the African farm labor and gives next to none of it to the farm laborers. Don't try and condemn something you don't understand.
A major political party with thousands of followers threatening to kill you is pretty simple understand.
Owen Wilson is looking rough these days.
wierd how they dint try to expel all the whites from africa after it ended.
How come they say Afrikaners instead of Africans?
Dang, they really wanted to separate themselves from the people they were colonizing.
They kept themselves apart, in their own hood.
Because it has a very specific meaning.
White pride?