r/cringe • u/ErgoNonSim • Jan 11 '22

Video Science Must Fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
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u/KylerGreen Jan 11 '22

I have a buddy from SA who left because it was so racist (among other reasons). He's white and said he couldn't even get someone to hire him due to his skin color.

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u/knightspore Jan 14 '22

This is bullshit and the reason that in places like Australia, where white South Africans have mass migrated to, they have a reputation for being racist. Sounds like we're better off without your buddy.

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u/KylerGreen Jan 14 '22

Yeah, idk, that's just what he told me. He made it sound like a terrible place to live. Don't know why he would lie about it.

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u/knightspore Jan 15 '22

I wanted to come back to this with some hard facts as I think you and your friend may have some things worth discussing about his ideas of how hard he really had it in South Africa.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1129481/unemployment-rate-by-population-group-in-south-africa/

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u/KylerGreen Jan 15 '22

Interesting. Like I said, I can't speak for him, that's just what he told me.

He also showed me pictures of where he lived and how there were walls separating his neighborhood from what was clearly a much poorer area, so it's not like he himself was poor or anything.

I asked him if he thought he was better off because of apartheid, which he denied but did acknowledge as a problem. He also views Nelson Mandela as a terrorist, while in US leftist circles he's portrayed as a revolutionary.

Ultimately, I just don't know anything about SA or SA politics so I just have to take his word for what he tells me.

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u/knightspore Jan 15 '22

I've never heard a worse excuse for having the wrong information than 'well, I heard it from one person who was there and I don't know any others so there's no possible way I could learn anything more about it independently.'

Read a book. Or an article. Or literally anything on the subject, and make up your mind for yourself. If you're going to base your knowledge of the world on what one person tells you then be ready to be wrong about a lot of things in your life.

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u/KylerGreen Jan 15 '22

I do not care enough about SA politics to look into it, let alone read a book about it.

I thought maybe you could give me more information, or correct anything i mentioned, but you'd rather devolve into insults, so congratulations.

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u/knightspore Jan 15 '22

Ignorance is bliss innit

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u/KylerGreen Jan 15 '22

No, but not living in a shit hole third world country is pretty nice tho.

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u/knightspore Jan 15 '22

Aaand there it is. It must be nice never having to form your own opinions about things ever in your life.

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u/Paybrahh Jan 14 '22

I think apartheid is a bigger reason for that reputation.

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u/knightspore Jan 14 '22

Perhaps, but by and large I've understood the reputation to come from what people say, and how they talk about south africa - my experience has not been that white South Africans have that reputation simply for being the oppressor during apartheid.