this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

projection they're endlessly terrified that everyone else will do it right back to them

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

White folk make up 7.3% of the population in South Africa but own 75% of the land.

In precapitalist preindustrial (mercantilist) colonial times, monetary value was derived directly from the land. This was widely accepted by humans as the standard for millennia.

Essentially, a bunch of settlers showed up and openly displayed their inhumanity by stealing from locals who welcomed them. You know, the entire founding principle of the modern Western world.

Colonial legacy has led to an imbalance which is the direct opposite of what these comments imply.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You have a source on this?

I would love to share it with some white south African coworkers I have...

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa

Under 'Nationality' then 'Minor Ethnic', whites make up 7.3% of the population.

Some three-quarters of privately-owned farmland is still in the hands of whites, who make up less than 8% of the population, while 4% is owned by Black South Africans who make up 80%.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-makes-false-claims-white-genocide-south-africa-during-ramaphosa-meeting-2025-05-21/

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Regarding the initial tweet:

Why are those whities there? big-honk

Why are those whities there??? honk-enraged

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

It's like if someone broke into your house, killed your pets, killed your kids, and ate all the food in your fridge, the gets upset with you when you tell them to leave. They go on social media to complain how they couldn't take your TV with them on their way out, comparing the walk to your front door with the Bataan Death March.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah, well whites were also a minority during the apartheid government, so your preferential treatment was less than half a century ago and still very much in living memory (to say nothing of the current wealth distribution). Cry me a fuckin' river.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that Epstein behind him 💀

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 months ago

absolutely horrible optics to be complaining about white genocide a few weeks after your AI made headlines by obsessing over white genocide

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

White people when there are modest reparations for centuries of racist settler colonialism: "WHITE GENOCIDE!?"

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

If I didn’t want people to come after me for revenge, I would simply not wrong them in the first place.

It’s that easy.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk being such a sad pathetic loser is a psyop to make other billionaires look less repugnant by comparison

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

They definitely look a lot more intelligent in comparison.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Spending billions of dollars on a website to make an entire userbase learn about the plight of like 100 dudes I know

my-hero

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So much for freeze-peach from the freeze peach guy

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

"Comedy is legal again smuglord "

"OK cool, Kill the Boer!"

"NO NOT LIKE THAT powercry-2 "

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pretty sure wh*te people aren't and never have been a minority in the demokkkrat party though. anti-cracker-aktion sure like to be afraid.