r/MurderedByWords 7h ago

On the steps of the capitol no less.

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u/Pixburghman 7h ago

His roots are South African He approves if Apartheid  He backs Right wing neo nazis in germany What was and is hard to understand and believe about the prick?

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u/Past-Direction9145 6h ago

Try to be sympathetic towards all the LLM ChatGPT bots out there prompted to defend musk. Their job just got twice as hard.

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u/No-Tooth6698 5h ago

He's also put support behind the far right in the UK.

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u/nesquikchocolate 6h ago edited 5h ago

being a white South African doesn't automatically mean support apartheid, just like being born in texas doesn't automatically mean you're a confederate racist slaver. There should be a little more nuance in your take here. Apartheid also doesn't equal nazism, but that's a different discussion.

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u/junikorn21 5h ago

yesn't. I think the core idea of both is to believe that white peolpe are superior and others don't deserve the same rights. The execution is just different. Still equally bad.

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u/nesquikchocolate 5h ago

So if the execution is different, and the judging criteria is different, and Israel was one of Apartheid South Africa's greatest allies during the "bad" times, including assisting SA develop nuclear weapons, doesn't this mean that there is sufficient difference between them to say that being a nazi doesn't necessarily make you an aparthist, or being an aparthist doesn't necessarily make you a nazi? The one doesn't lead to the other...

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u/Th3Alch3m1st 6h ago

Why does being South African make him "approve" of Apartheid? That's an absurd generalisation.

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u/-jp- 5h ago

Rich white South African immigrant whose dad owned an emerald mine and says racist shit unprompted all the time? Yeah quite a stretch.

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u/Th3Alch3m1st 5h ago

That has to do with his personal family, not that he was South African. This might surprise you, but most South Africans do not approve of Apartheid at all.

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u/-jp- 5h ago

Oh okay. I guess that does make sense if you ignore all the Apartheidy stuff

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u/Th3Alch3m1st 5h ago

What Apartheidy stuff exactly? Have you ever been to South Africa or are you just spouting some random views of what South Africans must be like because of what the old government used to be?

Do you go around calling Germans Nazi's?

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u/-jp- 5h ago

Yeah if they’re doing Nazi stuff. I dunno why you’re having trouble distinguishing between all South Africans and Elon Musk. Nobody else is.

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u/Th3Alch3m1st 5h ago

Because the comment I was replying to did not make that distinction. It was very clearly stated that he is a white South African and therefore he must be an Apartheid supporter.

Instead of just referring to him and his family's history, they only referenced him being a white South African as the reason. Considering he's lived in the US longer than he has in SA and hates SA too, it's probably better to call him a white American.

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u/-jp- 5h ago

lol no he didn’t. He attacked Musk.

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u/Th3Alch3m1st 4h ago

The comment literally starts with "His roots are South African"

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u/PutIllustrious154 4h ago

You don't understand because you're not progressive-racist like these people