Its just weird because there's an actual term for the Afrocentric ideology that states ancient Egypt was actually full of black people (Hotepism) but the redditors default to a country with a colonial history that had our own much worse version of racial segregation last up until the mid 90s.
Anyone who believes it ignorant yes. South Africa just seems like a bad example to use in this case for some reason.
South Africa is an incredibly bad example yeah. Especially Elon Musk on top of that.
Really weird that Reddit just defaults to that.
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Ever hear the :lmayo: on :reddit-logo: concern troll about King Bazinga being "the most important African American of all time?" I have. :disgost:
Its just weird because there's an actual term for the Afrocentric ideology that states ancient Egypt was actually full of black people (Hotepism) but the redditors default to a country with a colonial history that had our own much worse version of racial segregation last up until the mid 90s.
"Rhodesia" as a concept is only good as a means to red flag cryptofascists. :the-more-you-know:
My go-to response to that is that Elon is an African-American in the same sense that Japanese people are Pacific Islanders.
Technically true in the strictest technical sense? Yes.
Completely not what people mean when they say those words? Also yes.