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>Stages currently active in SA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

Actually, genocide watch says only stage 6 is present in SA. https://www.genocidewatch.com/country-pages/south-africa

For comparison they list 3 different signs for an active genocide against black americans.



You need to make your way through 1-5 to get to 6, but I specifically excluded 5 (organization of militias).

There are rumours of this but if it's true, these militias must be very secret indeed.

One problem is that violent criminals run rampant and the state seemingly has little desire to stop them, and zero capacity to do so. Meanwhile prominent politicians sing songs whose lyrics include machine gun sounds and calls for the murder of whites.

Parallel to this, there are job restrictions limiting the maximum number of whites companies may employ or promote. Franchises limit the number of white owners. White business owners are strong-armed through law and government contracts to give up some of their equity. There's regular talk about seizing white-owned property.

Whatever label you want to put on all that, I think the it's fucked up.

The worst part is, the average poor black South African is innocent in all this and now has to live in a place with a spiraling economy, power & water outages, even worse crime than the whites have to face, terrible standards of education, and much more.


>You need to make your way through 1-5 to get to 6

This isn't true. As the genocide watch page says "The process is not linear."

White South Africans are less likely to be victims of crime, make more money, live longer, and are over-represented among corporate and political leadership. Taking steps to undo the damage done by apartheid isn't fucked up, it's necessary as evidenced by the aforementioned inequalities.


And I'm telling you that 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 are the ones that are active right now.

> "Taking steps to undo the damage ... it's necessary"

What a bullshit argument.

How does any of that help "undo" the damage done by apartheid? The government of SA prizes ideology over outcome. The ideology is to attack Western things, even if the outcome is that black South Africans are now very much worse off than they would've been if SA was thriving.

And to cite this as a defence for the abuses and outrages that has literally landed white SA'ns - despite their relative wealth - on a genocide watch.


>And I'm telling you that 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 are the ones that are active right now.

I trust genocide watch more than you to determine which of the genocide watch stages of genocide are underway,

>How does any of that help "undo" the damage done by apartheid?

White South Africans make up 8% of the population but own 72% of farmland. This is a direct result of apartheid and colonial racism more broadly. Expropriating some of this land and returning it to black South Africans is directly undoing this damage.




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