As a woman I am extremely aware the only reason I have rights is because women before me got mouthy, organized, and made herself inconvenient. Thats why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors
The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.
Being a Muslim has never been "a thing" in South Africa. These are not RSA talking points. It is so obvious what is happening here. And who.....what a disgrace!
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What we are saying is that March March, and their fellow leaders are xenophobic; their actions are xenophobic. Most of their demands are valid, but this is where they lose the plot. According to some of their demands, children born to non-SA men are foreigners. Naturalized South Africans are foreigners. People who are validly in SA are portrayed as breaking the law or whatever else they claim. These are some of their xenophobic positions.
Their valid concerns, which most people agree with, include unregulated migration, corruption in the granting of visas, and the healthcare crisis in SA, including the strain on the system and the ways in which it is being taken advantage of.
However, here are some of their actions and words that are also xenophobic: ethnic differentiation, the use of inflammatory language that has historically been used to mobilize ethnic violence, and calling everyone with an accent they do not understand “zai zai.”
This shit is meant to be hilarious but do you know how much hatred you have to have in your heart to be moved to tears like this! Even Hitler in all his rants wasn’t moved to tears by his antisemitism!
This is a level of hatred you can’t even begin to quantify! This is scary!
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.