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by LurkingPenguin 1690 days ago
> I'm heartily sick and tired of the way white South African men are portrayed as the 'new bogeymen'.

New boogeyman? The malign influence of whites in Africa is not a new phenomenon. The statement you took issue with is true.

Of course, nobody reasonable would suggest that all whites in Africa, or that all white South Africans, are bad people, but it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa on the basis that it hurts white people in Africa's feelings.