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Elon deserves every shot he gets, cheap, expensive, fair, and unfair. This is sort of in between, however, as many white South Africans his age today work hard to fulfill the promise of South Africa's multi-racial democracy. I know older ones who risked their lives and freedom working side-by-side with South Africans of all races to create that reality.

But, for Americans on an American-centered website, I guess employing cheap snark to dunk on Elon is sorta okay. Carry on, I suppose.

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No thanks. Afrikaners are people descended from Dutch settlers whose first language is Afrikaans. I think that assuming somebody must be reconstructed based on their ethnic identity runs against the spirit of the project begun by the good guys of all races in S.A.

To be clear, not defending Musk or anyone else who sticks to bad old views.

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Isn’t any southerner who considered himself a Confederate “unreconstructed” by definition?

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I agree to disagree without continuing the discussion. https://xkcd.com/386/

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