been thinking about that thing where (presumably elon musk) tuned twitter's AI to be really insistent that there might be a "white genocide" happening in south africa

and, like, of course the idea is bollocks (the violence that is happening right now seems to happen on class- rather than race-based lines, and more resembles gang activity than a deliberate extermination), but the idea of "the minorities have risen up and are going to do to us what we did to them" is always going to be strong in the minds of right-wingers

and it does make a small amount of sense -- like, you would think that "let's just kill / exile our former oppressors and steal their stuff" would come across as a very simple and solution-shaped answer to the question of "what do we do now that we have all the power?" after a revolution or a decolonization

and yet, nobody ever takes this option in reality

my guess is because it makes for terrible politics -- for one, getting rid of potentially useful people is weakening your own power at a moment where it should be consolidated, and it is terrible optics from an international point of view -- you're destroying your reputation, killing any tourism industry you might have, and providing other powers with a pretty good justification to wage war on you

like, look at how israel lost so much of its reputation after its occupation of gaza and the west bank started turning into a genocide, and israel has the benefit of (1) probably having nukes, (2) being a relatively stable and democratic country in a region that's full of autocracies, (3) its genocide targeting a very marginalized group of people

and yet people think that some african country would want to do the same against a demographic that has the wealthiest and most powerful ethnic groups on the planet