The brainworms in the comments it's just incredible. There's one actual good detailed explanation in the comments, waiting to see what :galaxy-brain: takes show up

  • KiaKaha [he/him]M
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    2 years ago

    This leads to a weird situation where white South Africans in other countries are either there because they didn’t want to fight for apartheid, or because they were unhappy it ended, depending on when they left.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      This is very true. A Labour MP in the UK for example, fled South Africa to avoid military conscription. And did some cool work calling out Israel for being an apartheid state.

      In general, the more reactionary people left to Australia, New Zealand and sometimes the USA, while the less reactionary people fled to Europe, with the UK being an exception. And the Netherlands not really fitting in either category, as Dutch and Afrikaans are very similar languages, which makes assimilation easier if you speak Afrikaans. This is just a general trend, I'm sure there are plenty of reactionary SA immigrants in Europe unfortunately.

      I can actually understand a lot of Dutch lol, thanks to being taught Afrikaans in school.