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    South Africa isn’t a threat to America, no, but living in a post-apartheid, nominally non-racist country is super uncomfortable for rich, white racists. They perceive the situation as them being in danger, and this has triggered the closest thing to empathy that you’ll ever get out of DJT.

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        I never said it was empathy. I said it’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to it from him.

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        Nominally non-racist. Back during apartheid, South Africa was definitely racist. Now apartheid is over, everyone there, regardless of race, is supposed to be equal.

        That doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist there, just that it’s no longer encoded into law, and indeed the opposite might be encoded, regarding hate crimes and the like.