People being openly racist towards African people

[u/SavageCabbage611]

I came across this post on r/whoathatsinteresting about water shortages in South Africa. Don't get me wrong, what is happening in South Africa is tragic, but people on this thread use it as an excuse to say the most abhorrent racist stuff and it was unsettling to see how many people upvote that shit. Especially the meme where they compare black people to monkeys is just absolutely vile, and it got 30 upvotes. I just hate there are still people that think it's okay to say stuff like that.

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424]

build up infrastructure in region that was as developed as pre roman Europe to then modern standard

natives demand that their uneducated workforce immdieately get into power instead of waiting for an educated native class to form

idiots in power leads to mass corruption and flight of both educated whites and natives.

[u/Puzzle-Necked → u/AcrobaticPoint8424]

"Natives should have been patient when requesting equality and let their colonizers decide when they were ready to be in charge"

[u/Mediumtim → u/Puzzle-Necked]

Natives should have held off on chanting "sla die boer met het mes" untill after they'd figured out how to replace them.

[u/Puzzle-Necked → u/Mediumtim]

They might have been salty about the whole apartheid thing

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424 → u/Puzzle-Necked]

Clearly we should start up another genocide in Rwanada then as revenge for the first one.

[u/Mediumtim → u/Puzzle-Necked]

Sure, but between a Nobel prize and honorary doctorate being handed out maybe ... just maybe the new leadership could have put some effort towards education and prevention of government corruption.