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Good golly goodness you got excited about this. So I don't see how 'we got this car to help the environment, now we're destroying it because to fight fascism' would take away from the video in any way.
Ellen moved out of Africa when he was 17 and he's 53 now, I would say he's more culturally American now than he is South African. Tesla is very much a proud American company. But mainly bringing race into it for no reason just feels racist, it feels like racism for the point of racism and that's never good, even if it's against white South Africans, you don't get to choose where you're born and not all people from one race are the same.
I'm not down voting your comments either
https://cybernews.com/news/tank-crushes-tesla/
Not everyone has the same conception of how to correctly edit or contextualize a video as you.
As you point out, I am rather excited by this video... because symbolism is to me far more powerful than the material, in this instance.
... As to the use of AfikanerKar... I think it is worth it to bring light to the very real and relevant past and history of Elon, which he has very, very often lied about in an attempt to obfuscate, as opposed to actually take head on, grapple with, and either embrace or reject.
He is a coward, always hiding behind lies and jokes and memes, 'ironically' fash-posting untill he became one fully, and now he of course blames all the mean people who are mean to him for no reason.
His race and ethnicity and class upbringing are very relevant because he was not only molded by them all as a child, as I pointed out, he still uses all that rascist, misogynistic rhetoric to guide his actions to this day.
It is also relevant because he literally was an illegal immigrant, and now supports and directly funds and enables punishing less fortunate immigrants to America than himself.
The man deserves to be marooned in the Heard islands, and I honestly really do not care if I somehow offend the sensibilities of actual Afrikaners who disagree with Elon's politics, I very much get the idea they would understand and appreciate the usage of the term.
Its not like Afrikaner is even a slur. It is literally what they call themselves.
I do not personally have a Karen style meltdown when a European describes an American tourist as a big dumb loud idiot who likely can't speak a lick of anything other than English... because I know this is a generally accurate insult, which I would freely level against many fellow Americans I have known.
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More pointing out your excitement about the discussion.
I don't think Elon is a good person and he obviously has a lot of flaws, I'm just pointing out that tying Elon and his views to a race isn't fair to that race, you're also tying an American company to South Africa.
The line 'I very much get the idea that they would understand and appreciate the usage of the term' isn't great, you're speaking on behalf of a race and saying that they're all happy being associated with a neo natzi.
You don't need to have a meltdown, I just can't imagine you enjoy being called a dumb American and you're coming from a place of privilege, you need to have a rule that works for all races, many races take great offence to racists views against them, white South Africans may also be quite privileged, my point is that you shouldn't do it to any race.