Alternatively: please recommend me good books on African anti-colonial history
There is a selection bias where the white south africans that you meet outside of south africa are emmigrants whose motivations for leaving are :ursus-hexagonia:
I don't think I've come across one in real life, but every single one I've seen on twitter is... exactly what you'd expect.
Exactly who I was going to say, features prominently in Nelson Mandelas autobiography (along with the rest of the SACP).
My flatmate is a trans dude white south african who doesn't like colonialism.
My friend is in my communist org and they're a white south African, so at least one
Incredible. A people so terrible I feel fine siding with the English over them.
The guy from District 9 at the very least learned some empathy after what he went through. Maybe.
Ronnie Kasrils and Firoz Osman are pretty based. And there's this friend of mine on Discord who lives in Nelson Mandela Bay, already reading Marx and Lenin at the age of 13.
Also I suppose if I ever move back to Johannesburg and make it a habit to read "The Governance of China" out loud from my high-rise balcony or in public...
Joe Slovo.
Also all the communists that joined the MK.
Also all the people that fled the country to escape military conscription
Johnny Clegg as well
Also should I just say Boer? Afrikaner? Do the Africans in South Africa identify as "South Africans?"
only afrikaners generally identify as anything other than south african as a nationality
they don't like being associated with south africa, i wonder why :thinking-about-it:
Is Charlize Theron problematic? She used to be the poster child for "white African American" before Elon but I don't remember any serious controversies surrounding her.
