XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans
On 2025-03-24 00:01:56 +0000, pothead said:
On 2025-03-23, jedempti bogorucu dupe <0-666-0@never.net.invalid> wrote:
another gop_smacked_loon wrote:
jedempti bogorucu dupe <0-666-0@never.net.invalid>
gop_smacked_loon wrote:
bow to him as he ruins your country
Not my country, not my Emperor!
I live within a civilised society.
Ain't happening!
Suck it up Usenet-pest!
Africa ain't civilized.
Tell that to your crazed Co-President, not me!
After all he hails from there!
:-P
Apartheid ended in 1994.
Musk left Africa in 1989.
In part to avoid military service. Good thing he isn't running as a
Democrat over here, he'd be swiftboated by the right-wing snipers in a
second.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-musk-left-013000293.html
But getting back to the main point:
Born in Pretoria in 1971, Mr. Musk had an upbringing typical of the
white South African elite. The family was wealthy, despite his parents divorcing when he was young, its economic standing shaped by a system
designed to assist whites. Mr. Musk doesn't appear to have enjoyed his
private education -- there are stories of bullying and loneliness --
but he still benefited from the advantages it conferred.
Though his father, an engineer, was for a time a member of the
anti-apartheid Progressive Party, there is little evidence Mr. Musk
inherited his political convictions. Like many white South Africans,
Mr. Musk left the country before the collapse of racial rule, settling
in Canada, where his mother was born, in 1989.
He never returned, but South Africa clearly stayed with him. Take his
recent intervention into the debate over the country's land reform as
an example. In response to a bill passed in January that allows in
specific circumstances the expropriation of land without compensation,
Mr. Musk used his platform to suggest that white South Africans are
uniquely persecuted.
Never mind that land restitution is a broadly accepted norm in
post-colonial societies or that eminent domain or compulsory purchase
laws do something similar in the United States and elsewhere. The Trump administration -- amplifying fringe voices, promoting distorted
narratives of racial victimhood and using Mr. Musk's claim as a
symbolic cudgel -- was only too happy to play along.
Mr. Musk's role in the controversy suggests he has not so much moved
beyond the logic of apartheid as absorbed it. His ideological
commitments -- deregulated markets, hostility to labor organizing and
Trumpist nationalism -- bear its trace.
In effect, his politics reprise apartheid's economic principles on a
global scale: maintaining zones of privilege under the guise of "free enterprise" while resisting any moves toward redistribution as threats.
You can hear it in his exhortations for others to work harder and his
pleas for him and his businesses to receive special treatment.
Given the administration's fascination with old-style colonialism --
epitomized most starkly by its putative plan to resettle Gaza with "the
world's people," along with the desire to buy Greenland and annex the
Panama Canal -- it's no surprise that it sees South Africa as a
dystopian prophecy to be resisted.
Mr. Musk, ever the entrepreneur, is happy to supply the propaganda. But
South Africa's history tells a different story -- one where white
dominance was not inevitable, where settler rule did not last and where
a different future, however uncertain, remains possible. From his
exalted position of power, Mr. Musk may do all he can to reverse or
subvert this story. But he won't be able to. History, unlike Mars, is
not his to colonize.
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/elon-musk-is-south-african-it-explains-a-lot
Next.
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