[CW: Racism] South Africa’s president unambiguously sides with Palestine. Sympathizers of settler-colonial state respond predictably.
[CW: Racism] South Africa’s president unambiguously sides with Palestine. Sympathizers of settler-colonial state respond predictably.
They can’t help themselves, can they.
Real quick, someone tell me what Israel was doing in Africa during the Cold War? And what they’re doing now by sterilizing African Jews and having IDF train American police departments? Gee, sure is curious why their supporters seem to match this rhetoric.
I sure hope more Western chauvinists show their asses like this. I’m sure it will go well with the people of color in the West as well as all the African nations they’re trying to appeal to (lest they get seduced by big bad China).
Jesus Christ. The amount of mask-off racism/chauvinism in the past few days makes even the worst comments made in the first few days of the war in Ukraine seem relatively inoffensive in comparison.
White on White conflict doesn't energize bigots quite the same as defending the wholesale slaughter of POC.
Bemused By The Idiocy
The bemusement:
Bemusement actually means flat-out confusion anyways, these morons are just using big boy words to sound like grown-ups
Like I get that caucasian is just a way to refer to white people while sounding a bit more "educated" but white south africans were primarily anglos. Not like the people from the Caucus mountains descended upon South Africa.
Then I decided to look and oh look at that it's just more racism.
Thank god people with these views are an extreme minority when compared to the overall population over here. Vast majority of South Africans support Palestine.
I'm going to watch the rugby now, hope the Springboks win.
Wait till you hear about Julius Malema, leader of the third-largest political party in South Africa (the EFF).
The merger with Lemmy really opened the Lib floodgates, huh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters
During a 2016 political rally, EFF leader Julius Malema stated, "We are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now."
While still the ANCYL leader, Malema was taken to the Equality Court by AfriForum for repeatedly singing "dubul' ibhunu", meaning "shoot the Boer".
South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission disqualified EFF councillor Thabo Mabotja from the 2016 local elections due to a tweet by Mabotja calling for the hacking and killing of white South Africans.
Speaking at a political rally in 2018, Malema told supporters to "go after a white man", a reference to Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip, adding that "we are cutting the throat of whiteness".
Following the death of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Malema tweeted a number of controversial quotes from the late Mugabe that were malicious towards white people, most notably "The only white man you can trust is a dead white man".
The South African Minority Rights Equality Movement initiated a court case against Malema for inciting racial sentiment by stating that a "majority of Indians are racist" at an EFF Youth Day rally in 2018.
The EFF was criticised by the South African Council of Churches, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, and the ANC for comparing Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to a "dog" whilst protesting against the Zondo Commission inquiry into government corruption. The EFF also accused the anti-corruption investigators of being members of an "Indian cabal" commenting on the presence of Indian South Africans making up the investigative team.
EFF leadership and its supporters have been criticised for using Gordhan's second name, Jamnadas, as a racial dog whistle to highlight to his Indian ethnicity in a pejorative way and question his status as a South African on social media.
Anthony Mathumba, an EFF councillor of the Makhado Local Municipality, is currently in court for hate speech. In June 2020, he is alleged to have created a Twitter account where he pretended to be a white woman and made racist comments to black women.
at least for now
Lol
They do have a point about the non Indian comments. Never trust a bleach demon.
I love this guy, fuck yeah
This is tangential to the ANC-aligned president of SA making a statement of solidarity, but I still want to comment.
The EFF's racial populism (in spite of their efforts to try to reach out to other ethnic groups, including whites, particularly recently) is an unfortunate result of the racial antagonisms that the ANC failed to address. That said, it's currently the most likely South African party to be transformed into an actual vanguard, even if it's far from it now.
