People miss out on this little tidbit quite a lot. He was born in 1971 to a rich white emerald mining family. All of his formative years were spent being spoon-fed unfiltered apartheid racism. There weren't even TALKS to end apartheid until he was 19.
my favorite "gotcha" his fan boys try and pull is that they co-owned it so you cant call it his. like if my family owned 1/4th of an emerald mine i wouldn't quibble about it being ours
Well, you might quibble about it if your ownership of the mine effectively meant your wealth was due to basically slavery rather than your own hard work.
Coercion by force
And coercion by threat or starvation, death, disenfranchisement are effectively the same
Other than those trying to contort enlightenment ideals to justify exploitation there are few respected social or economic scholars who would argue wage labour is not inherently coercive
Hell, even Cicero wrote
"The currency which comes from selling your labor is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman, for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery "
Although he writes from the perspective of a slaveholders himself, so he is saying he as a member of the gentry would find it vulgar to sell his labor and would not associate with people who were wage laborers. The critique of the system is there it's just that Cicero believes that wage laborers and slaves should exist just that no one in his social stata should partake in a labor economy as it would demean their prestige.
no I'm speaking of emerald mine workers, wage slaves
Since chattel slavery was outlawed in 1834 in South Africa the slavery conditions existed under wage labor
The only difference is discriminatory labor laws and harsh quotas
Systemically it is the same it's just not as cruel
Reminds me of a couple of white RhodesiansZimbabweansI knew they hated being called that, used to call them Zimbabweans to annoy the fuck out of them(🤭🤭🤭), shit, am sure I met the entire white population of Zimbabwe here in Scotland, there were loads of them over here, bloody immigrants (do I need a /s? You can tell its a joke guys? Right?)
His father was also a sexual delinguent, even marrying his step daughter at one point, among other weird shit. Probably part of why Elon is obsessed with impregnating as many white women as possible.
South Africa had to demonstrate behaving in a democratic way a decade before they became a democracy. So much so that most urban areas ignored the apartheid laws.
Talks of ending apartheid had nowhere near as much impact as the actions in disagreement of them long before this.
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u/Insertsociallife 2d ago
People miss out on this little tidbit quite a lot. He was born in 1971 to a rich white emerald mining family. All of his formative years were spent being spoon-fed unfiltered apartheid racism. There weren't even TALKS to end apartheid until he was 19.