You've heard of racist dog whistles now get ready for a tucking TRAIN WHISTLE holy fuck
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Trump raged in his order that South Africa’s government is seizing “ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and enacting “countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity” in employment, education and business.”
TLDR: The POS US president bitches about a lack of "DEI" in South Africa, without proof, and wants to bring more white SAs to the US
Elon Musk, a clearly Nazi leaning former South African, is in charge of the gubmnt, and now resettlement of Afrikaners becomes a priority?
It's pretty clear who is running this government.
because of....
"government-sponsored race-based discrimination."
o.m.f.g.
Hmmm... This sounds like DEI?
No, see, when white people oppress black people, that's fine. When black people want to recoup some of what was taken, that's DEI. Gotta stamp that shit out.
I get that your comment is tongue in cheek, but there is nothing Diverse, Equal or Inclusive about this policy.
They believe (or at least spout it) that DEI is discriminatory.
Not hiring white men = racist.
Doesn't matter that the demographics of an office should, all else being equal, be roughly equal to the demographics of the community around it. If white men aren't getting hired, there's a racial bias at play.
Now...we know all things aren't being equal, because of generations of oppression. But that's besides the point. To them, if other people aren't being oppressed, then they are being oppressed.
To the privileged, equality feels like oppression. Because white privilege is eroding. As it should.
So somebody is still salty about the end of apartheid, I wonder who it could be
A whole lotta old qons in this country, if we are being honest. I remember their Outrage Industrial Complex wailing and whining about it in the 90s.
I'm guessing white South Africans are very good at producing eggs on the cheap, as President Trump is obviously laser-focused on lowering the price of eggs.
Well Ya they have a couple hundred years experience forcing people with darker skin do all their labor. So they'll fit right in
couple hundred years experience forcing people with darker skin do all their labor
Almost 400 years actually.
"Trump" and "laser-focused"... most clashing words ever used in one sentence.
Are you sure? For example:
"A single seasoned engineer laser-focused on an arduous problem would trump a team of sloppy inexperienced technicians any day."
or more topically:
"Trump's trump Elon Musk is laser-focused on fucking up the United States on his behalf."
both seem like valid and plausible sentences.
Well, I was just jesting about Trump, not directing it at you.
But if you want me to break down what I meant, it was in a general sense of "Trump" as in the current president as the subject and "laser-focused" as an adjective for him, similar to how you used it in the post I was replying to. My point being that the man is completely incapable of being laser-focused. Neither of your follow-up examples fit that.
I hope that clarifies. : )
Relax, I was kidding 🙂
Haha, I couldn't tell! : )
What happened to America first? /s
"America" = "cishet white men".
When I first read the headline, I thought this might be donvict wanting to move fElon to South Africa.
I'm 100% sure he wants South Africa for himself.
LOL, it's like donvict is stuck in the 90s. This was a huge issue on the Outrage Industrial Complex way back when.
Immigrants are BAD! UNLESS they're White and from South Africa!
Won’t somebody think of the rich white people??!
Truly the most oppressed people in the world. One day, maybe we will see rich white men in charge of things.
What in the actual fuck.
Can't be an undocumented illegal if you're white...
From over here in Europe, I'm just hoping that the US government disintegrates entirely from internal strife, before they consolidate into a unified force that decides colonization was a great idea, but let's UNO reverse it.
Unfortunately, fascists don't tend to do that. If there is a benefit to embracing the concept of might makes right it's that the bootlickers don't really mind when the Night of Long Knives stuff happens, they simply view it as the strong proving their strength and thus rightness.
This descent into fascism won't be stopped without a civil war, and quite frankly I don't think the circumstances exist for it yet.