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The brittleness of white billionaires (lemmy.ml)
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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it. And now he can be an apartheid nepo-baby and still run a telecommunications company in the nation his father helped to devastate.

What's your point?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it.

And if he sells 30% of it to people of 'the wrong race', South Africa still won't allow in the company. The critical variable is the race of the owner(s); South Africa is demonstrably discriminating based on race.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago

Yes? I acknowledged that in my original comment.

As it turns out, just declaring everything fine now doesn't actually address the disparities of wealth and power when you have had much worse laws in place for much longer.

Happy St Patrick's Day! In Ireland we burned the mansion houses of English landlords after independence. I'm not going to judge non-white South Africans for enforcing a fucking minority shareholder policy.