How would you live your life?
realistically i would probably be your average piece of shit settler, nobody is above the circumstances of their upbringing
I mean not nobody, I'm an example of that. So is someone like Joe Slovo.
Sure, everyone can change, but if you have certain experiences you are more likely to. For example, I would imagine Slovo being born in 1926 and spending his first 8 years in Europe as a Jew would influence his attitudes towards race.
Definitely. There's a reason why Jewish people are massively overrepresented in the white population that resisted apartheid.
With me the experiences that influenced that are probably growing up really poor and living as a closeted bisexual male since the age of 17, as well as becoming physically disabled as an adult. All of thise things change your perception of everything.
But on the extremely rare occasion, you do get people that come to the right conclusion without being affected much. Like this older guy I know. Grew up very privileged. Got in trouble as a kid/teen for having friends of different races (yes that actually happened back then), dodged the military draft multiple times by escaping to different countries, etc. Only was allowed back in South Africa after '94.
I hope I'd be cool enough to get radicalized and join the liberation struggle, but I would probably end up moving to America or something. :melon-musk:
If you were white you'd probably have to be forced out the country to avoid the military conscription/draft, unless you plan on living as an outlaw with the ANC or SACP and other resistance movements.
Got to at least dodge military conscription/draft. Even white Christian fascists that brought into the propaganda hard did that by becoming "missionaries". Imagine being outdone by one of them.
But for a detailed answer probably what I'm doing now as a white person in South Africa now: living a double life, in the closet (am bi) and appearing relatively like a "normal white dude", while organising behind the scenes. But I'd definitely dodge military conscription/draft somehow, now matter the consequences. Even if the current ANC government brought it back I'd doge it. (Unless it is an extreme circumstance like fighting fascists). But I'm physically disabled so I'm not eligible for the military draft anyway if it were to come back.
