(July 12, 2018 at 10:16 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Honestly, I don't know as much as I'd like about the fucked-up-ness of the Apartheid regime, but it could very well end up being a more apt comparison than the Third Reich comparisons. I suppose that people in America are more familiar with the Third Reich than Apartheid.
Thinking about it overnight I do think that there's a difference between apartheid and the US circa now in that (and I don't know a whole lot about apartheid either) the twitter thread implies that people in South Africa either thought the NP would blow over and be voted out, or that the actions they were taking wouldn't actually happen, or that there was general apathy among the population, but I don't know that that aspect really parallels today. There is definitely a vocal resistance to this administration that seems to be larger and more active than opposition to past presidents. : shrug:
There are some book recommendations in the comments on the first tweet of the thread that I was going to look into. Like I mentioned, I'm not that well versed in apartheid either - before I watch the Lawrence Fishburne showabout Nelson Mandela last year the most I knew about apartheid was what I learned watching Lethal Weapon 2...
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
