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It is very very very easy to blame the people at the time for creating a system that explicitly oppressed a large portion of the population based on the color of their skin in order to uphold the disgusting and evil ideals of white supremacy.

And you are correct - white people aren't allowed to "protect themselves" by engaging in mass murder, organized oppression, and social violence against black people. Apartheid was and is evil.

"Mass murder, organized oppression, and social violence."

Alexa, what is necklacing?

So now that the system is actively oppressing, based on the color of their skin, the smallest minority in SA it's better? Whites can't get any job in SA, neither in government nor in private companies. The only option is to "be an entrepreneur" and open your own business. Apartheid literally means separation. Everyone have the right to deal or befriend with anyone they wish, forced multiculturalism is just it, a forced thing. The africanners 50 years ago knew that ending Apartheid would mean their own genocide, but the liberals of the rest of the western world couldn't "accept" such absurd way of thinking. Well, they were right, now the africanners of 2022 have their days numbered, and SA as a whole is becoming just another failed state in Africa.

During Apartheid, the South African state was a disgusting monument to human evil. Go take your genocide apologia somewhere else. I hope you leave this forum and never return.

Did you even read what he wrote? In case it's not clear: The "genocide" you're talking about (which, btw, there was never a genocide that's pure hyperbole) is now happening to white people. If you found the former disgusting, you're forced to find the current state also disgusting.

There is no such 'genocide' against white South Africans, who still enjoy the lowest unemployment rate[0] and highest income levels[1] compared to other racial and ethnic groups.

While life for white South Africans is more difficult than it was during Apartheid, for obvious reasons, and they now have to contend with affirmative action in many jobs and preferential procurement in government tenders, as a group they still have an inherent historical advantage compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the country.

There's a reasonable argument to be made as to whether those redress measures remain valid, fair, economically beneficial, or necessary, but what's entirely unreasonable is to claim that white South Africans today receive anything even resembling the abuse, restrictions, limitations, and indignities experienced by non-white South Africans under Apartheid. They're not at all comparable.

[0] https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=14606 [1] https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-11-18-whi...

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