Every time I think I've found the dumbest comment in this thread, I scroll down one more line......

  • GenXen [any, any]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Anyone who believes it ignorant yes. South Africa just seems like a bad example to use in this case for some reason.

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

      South Africa is an incredibly bad example yeah. Especially Elon Musk on top of that.

      Really weird that Reddit just defaults to that.

      • UlyssesT
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        2 months ago

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

          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.

          • UlyssesT
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            2 months ago

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      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Especially Elon Musk on top of that.

        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.