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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:11:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 13/01/2025 04:42, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> Sorry, SA is going down the proverbial toilet and
>>    it's not JUST a 'black'/'white' issue per-se.

On 2025-01-13, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> It never was. When I lived there in the apartheid days is was exactly to 
> 'worker versus capitalists and rich landowners and merchants' type 
> scenario that led to the rise of labour style unions and so on in the 
> 19th century in the UK.
> It so happened that the yokels were black, but that wasn't their 
> defining feature. It was lack of education and opportunity, and changing 
> politics didn't fix that.

And that is true in the USA as well. The focus on skin color instead of
income/wealth/class problems has/is/will distract the country from
actually working on mitigating the social stresses.