Pattern recognition and the ability to always ask "why" is the difference between a thinking, independent adult and a zombie who lets Twitter manage his emotions.
It's when you look at the "South Africa Vs Ghana beef" and you ask yourself why the South African xenophobes whom everyone knows have had problems with Nigerians and Zimbabweans since forever, suddenly decided to go after Ghanaians - the relatively unproblematic group of Africans that are both highly visible and universally liked across the continent.
Why would the Afrophobes seeking a quick and easy win against African immigrants skip over the hundreds of thousands of available Zimbabweans (invisible and easy to pick on) and Nigerians (widely disliked across Africa) and specifically start a beef with the one group of Africans that the entire continent knows and likes?
How many Ghanaians even live in South Africa compared to Nigerians and Zimbabweans? Why did Ghana - the most unlikely target with the least potential payoff - suddenly become the focus of South African Afrophobes? What did that contrived, 1-sided beef accomplish except create a narrative that set the entire continent against them? Why would Afrophobes seeking a win against immigrants go after the one group of immigrants that everyone likes and aren't even that many, when there were tens of thousands of Kudakwashes and Emekas to go after?
Why shoot themselves in the foot for absolutely no reason by making an enemy out of the state that had the capacity to immediately charter widebody aircrafts to evacuate its citizens who were then pictured joyfully singing their national anthem on the plane home? Why score such a disastrous PR own goal and completely discredit their own movement by adopting the role of comic book monsters, to the point where all of South Africa's continental soft power is genuinely under threat?
Are these Afrophobes really that stupid?
Or, or...hear me out - they are just patsies and someone else behind the scenes is carefully curating a sequence of events that leads South Africa into a catastrophic loss of diplomatic credibility and cultural influence, which will then be followed by an assault against the South African state itself, possibly by one or more separatist entities that are already being covertly armed and equipped?
Who was recently seen sending Starlink kits to Orania under the Seal of the US First Lady? Whose ambassador recently met with Western Cape separatists after publicly stating that he "does not care what South Africa's courts say"? Who is currently pushing every button to discredit South Africa on the international stage including disinviting the country from the G7 meeting and using disaster photos from DR Congo to falsely claim a "white genocide" in South Africa?
Pattern recognition is what helps you stitch all these data points together in sequence and reach the obvious conclusion that helps you avoid becoming a useful idiot whose thoughts and feelings are dictated by proprietary algorithms owned by billionaire white supremacists who microdose ketamine.
It's a basic adult requirement.
🚨 SELECTIVE OUTRAGE...! 🤔
It's perfectly acceptable for an Asian businessman to sell Dubai perfumes in Sandton CBD...
But a Congolese man selling the exact same perfumes from a small table in eShowe is treated like a criminal?
If the issue is the law, then apply it equally to everyone. If u want R5 million investment... that Sandton small shop is not worth R5million
If it's only a problem depending on which African country someone comes from, then maybe the conversation isn't really about the law after all.
Umehluko uphi?
#StopAfrophobia 🇿🇦🌍
A Chinese "leftover" Woman has a meltdown at weekly bride's market in China
She pleads her case with parents of potential groom's, who have travelled from neighbouring city to look for a bride for their Sons
She shouts that she earns 500,000 Yuan and has a good job, yet no one entertains her because she is over 30
In China, Women over 30 are labelled as "leftover women" and are not considered marriageable material, no matter how educated or successful they are
I SUMMARIZED THIS EXCHANGE
🇿🇦: We are against illegals in SA
🇳🇬: But I am not illegal
🇿🇦: We don’t want foreigners who take our jobs
🇳🇬: I created jobs for South Africans
🇿🇦: We just want you to leave our country even if you created jobs & are documented
🇳🇬: No problem, pay what I invested, I will leave
🇿🇦: We will see you on June 30th
NOTE: That business might get destroyed & the owner killed if this issue is not handled swiftly.
Watched this & my heart sank. Peep his face and see the fear, desperation slow but sure realization of the inevitable.
13 years. Gone down the drain.
Yes it’s fuck South Africans but even more so it’s fuck our useless leaders. Na dem cause all this disrespect & struggle chai
"We are only after illegal immigrants"
This is a legal, documented law abiding honest working woman, who just wants to make ends meet.
They loot her shop and put her on the street.
If you like, let South Africans gaslight you.
Lazy envious micropenis guttersnipes.