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[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I’m not saying he wasn’t a racist I’m saying if he changed that racism wasn’t a core component of his personality.

It's interesting that you're making these claims so soon after the death of former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk. You think racism wasn't a core part of de Klerk's personality - and the personality of other Afrikaners of his and previous eras?

[–]circlingmyownvoid2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I have no idea who that is.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're discussing racism and "identity" as though these are topics on which you have expertise, but you don't know who de Klerk is? Oy vey. That's really embarrassing. It's incomprehensible to me that anyone who supposedly cares about "diversity and inclusion" doesn't know who de Klerk is. Especially since a principle of gender ideology is that sex segregation is akin to apartheid.

[–]circlingmyownvoid2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I didn’t bring up racism. I don’t claim to be an authority on it.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay. Apologies, then. But anyone in any fight for civil rights and concerned about "diversity and inclusion" really should know about the history and principal players in apartheid and especially in bringing apartheid to an end. It's not ancient history, after all. Apartheid was only instituted in 1948, and brought to an end in the early 90s.

The movie "Mandela and de Klerk" starring Sidney Poitier as Mandela and Michael Caine as de Klerk is is worth a look. It's on Amazon. In fact, if you want to learn about successful civil rights movements, I'd recommend watching every film about apartheid, from "Cry Freedom" to "A Dry White Season" "Invictus" to all the Mandela biopics. Mandela was really brilliant when it came to understanding "messaging."