XSI wrote:The party in charge of government has been singing "Kill the boers" in public, that's not a sign or anything
And they've been blaming white people and colonialism for their woes rather than their own corruption and inability to govern
They call it socialism, but they're showing that the intention isn't socialism, it's racism and deflecting attention from their own failures by blaming someone else and trying to get the population to pick sides
If the US government decides to take over asian people's businesses and only asian people's businesses while their leaders are talking about how asians ruin everything and asians must die, then is that just socialism too?
This is what happened: ANC supporters sang an old Zulu rebel song that says "kill the Boers", government said that singing folk songs doesn't qualify as hate speech and they were not going to arrest them. The headline became "Government defends protesters who want to kill whites". There are a lot of Irish rebel songs that call for the murder of Englishmen and they are routinely sang in pubs and other public places, would you call it hate speech?
Or lets put it in another way: alt-right supporters sing a hateful Johnny Rebel song at a Charlottesville-like rally. Republican government says it's not hate speech and defends their right to sing whatever they want. Same government also implements stuff like welfare cuts, healthcare reforms, poll tax disguised as voter ID laws, harsh punishment for minor possession of weed and other laws which are all perfectly in line with the Republican values of conservatism and capitalistic economic policy but just so happen to mostly affect blacks. Would you say they're doing all of this because they're racist, and the fact they defended the Johnny Rebel singers proves it?
Reality is nuanced. South Africa is socialist and you can criticize that, but what they're doing is in line with socialist policy. Some farms that are going to be expropriated are also co-owned by blacks, it's just a matter of wealth redistribution.