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

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

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u/iambeingserious Mar 20 '18

White people don't downplay apartheid, they are pissed off about how much focus is given to apartheid and how little focus is given to the disaster that is the ANC government. You can't change the passed but you can change the future and the ANC is doing very little to make the future brighter for SA. Imagine how many children could've been schooled and fed for the money that has been lost on corruption.

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u/beeswaxx Mar 20 '18

i see plenty of white people knowingly or unknowingly play down apartheid. You just did by saying "the part is the past". You seem to have no idea just how terrible and lasting the effect of apartheid is and how much hate (not justifying it) there still from black people.

yes, OBVIOUSLY, the state capture and incompetence within the ANC should be addressed and removed, but i always laugh when white people say that "it's been more than 2 decades since apartheid" as if it's effects vanish after a fixed amount of time.

And people keep going on about the ANC and shit.... this thread and my original comment was about reverse apartheid and how it's ridiculous

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u/iambeingserious Mar 20 '18

Saying the past is the past is not down playing apartheid. It's fact, regardless of what you say. So either you focus on the past and destroy everything. Or you accept it and try build on top of it.

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u/beeswaxx Mar 20 '18

the phrase "past is the past" implies that all should be forgotten as it's over now as if it's impact is gone. if you are treated like animals for all your life, your parents were treated like animals all their lives and so forth, how is the past just the past after apartheid ends?

OBVIOUSLY we should move forward and create a new SA where racism is a thing of the past and not dwell on the past, but we should rectify our mistakes and not pretend like all is over and forgotten. black people are still at a disadvantage due to apartheid, whether you like to admit it or not.

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u/iambeingserious Mar 20 '18

Well we will never move forward if the government blames everything on fucking apartheid. Is that so difficult to understand? The government has been fucking up for 25 years and is now Scape goating the whites. Shit like this leads to genocide and civil war.

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u/beeswaxx Mar 20 '18

i don't see why you think that the two is mutually exclusive... we can condemn the ANC's behavior, looking to move forward AND not pretend like apartheid should be forgotten because the past is the past.

the only way we can actually move forward and stop this white blaming from the anc is for white people to actually confront and address the past. it's because of the lack of this that the anc can get away with apartheid blaming.

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u/iambeingserious Mar 20 '18

They are mutually exclusive. For all the noise about apartheid, there is hardly a peep about education.