Context. The commenters getting upvoted are defending this racist meme by local social media personality and racist idiot “The Kiffness”.
The commenter that got 270 downvotes is the one calling out the racism.
Yes, many people in South Africa are still so racist that they do the fried chicken stereotype thing and insinuate that this is a tactic that black majority political parties use to “buy votes”.
This skit will never stop being relevant CW: apparently theres a slur in the video (average british comedy
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There was Joe Slovo, and some of our lawyers lawyers at the ICJ, but yeah as a white person in South Africa I have to agree that a lot of older white people here are just racist. Conversations around race and class are impossible to have, no matter how reasonable you try to be.
Oh yeah and there was Dimitri Tsafendas, the guy who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd. May he rest in peace and power.
Yeah, Slovo was the
of south africa
I’m told there’s a slur somewhere in this song, but I can never pick it out of the song, so it’s probably one I don’t know. In any case, better drop a CW on that link to stay on the safe side.
From looking up the lyrics, there’s a use of the K-slur (against black South Africans) in the outro, used to mock someone with those beliefs but still used
Huh. I had no idea. Thanks for filling me in, brother!