Musk being African-American ruins a lot of language tricks, as well as a lot of narratives about Africa and South Africa specifically. So they instead insist on saying he is Dutch, unlike all the blacks in America who get to be the actual African Americans and not Congolese or wherever they originally came from.
I would say Boer. Isn't that what they are? They dumb down everything, yeah. Most Americans, if I had to hazard a guess, don't know what a Boer is. Some might not even know where the Netherlands is.
Not sure I follow.
Musk being African-American ruins a lot of language tricks, as well as a lot of narratives about Africa and South Africa specifically. So they instead insist on saying he is Dutch, unlike all the blacks in America who get to be the actual African Americans and not Congolese or wherever they originally came from.
Its a clever little trick of language they use.
Oh.
I would say Boer. Isn't that what they are? They dumb down everything, yeah. Most Americans, if I had to hazard a guess, don't know what a Boer is. Some might not even know where the Netherlands is.
It serves to distinguish the "real" South Africans and Boers.
I see now. They're emphasizing the Bantu migrants who came since white people made it nice as the real SAs.