r/southafrica • u/allthisjusttocomment • Mar 19 '18

Redditor provides counter-argument to documentary about South Africa's "Reverse Apartheid"

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u/beeswaxx Mar 19 '18 edited Mar 19 '18

the other problem with "reverse apartheid" is simply that the current situation is nowhere near apartheid... must be mostly kids that never actually seen the impact or living conditions of actual apartheid.

playing second fiddle to a black person when going to a job interview is somehow the same as a black person being considered less than human and not given any opportunities. plus, i do not know of a single white person that worked hard in school and studied hard and after all that were denied all job opportunities (in a field that actually has demand).

people always go on about how black people didn't study during apartheid and rather spent time protesting or doing nothing. why study when you can't get a decent job due to being black?

edit* oh and another argument against BEE i've heard quite a lot is that "my great grandfather worked till he bled and cried to provide for his family, nothing was given to him". maybe so, i know afrikaners were dirt poor during the 20's-50's, my great grand father included. they were, however, given land and the opportunity to work, i.e they COULD work their asses off to make a living.

black people were denied that, even if they wanted to work their ass off they couldn't

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

playing second fiddle to a black person when going to a job interview is somehow the same as a black person being considered less than human and not given any opportunities. plus, i do not know of a single white person that worked hard in school and studied hard and after all that were denied all job opportunities (in a field that actually has demand).

It's not, but at what point will it have served it's purpose as a measure to address inequality and instead become a form of discrimination?

How will we ever reach equality when population statistics look like these? Combine this with the rampant corruption and gross mismanagement of the ANC and the answer is never. That's why some white people look at it the way they do.

given land and the opportunity to work

That's pretty sweet. My grandparents had to buy their land unfortunately.

Things would have also gone better if black people back in the day actually tried to treat honestly with the white settlers, you know as opposed to betraying and brutally killing them. The battle of Bloodriver was the result of such a case.

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u/Space_Christ13 Mar 19 '18

Lol talking about how black people must just get over apartheid then are salty about bloedrivier XD

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

Yes