Yeah people keep calling Elon an Afrikaaner or a Boer. He's not. His parents are Canadian settlers, they came to South Africa bc the apartheid govt attracted white nationalists the world over. - ThreadSky

sotreu.bsky.social • 3 hours ago

Yeah people keep calling Elon an Afrikaaner or a Boer. He's not. His parents are Canadian settlers, they came to South Africa bc the apartheid govt attracted white nationalists the world over.

Reposted from pork, cheese, broccoli rabe

periodic reminder that elon’s grandpa was born in minnesota and raised in canada and was so racist that he *moved to south africa* specifically to support apartheid

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oggie.bsky.social•3 hours ago

So they heard about apartheid and decided it was a selling point.

Okay then.

cheryl-blue.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yeah, well, there was also the opportunity to make a lot of money there as long as you were white...

erezyoeli.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Elon’s biographer also opens the prologue by describing him as an empathy-free sociopath.

mattsiegel.bsky.social•3 hours ago

being raised by racists *would* turn these rare but normal variations into a horrific personality

erezyoeli.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Isaacson attributes the sociopathy not to Musk’s family’s racism but to his father’s abuse. Musk was also picked on as a kid, and raised in a culture that normalized violence.

givemeanaxe.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Yeah i actually didnt know this at all until i caught air of this whole, "renounce his canadian citizenship" thing.
I was. Surprised.

virginiaopossum.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I mean it's fun because "Boer" is pronounced "boor" and he's definitely one of those. But yes, it's inaccurate and his real backstory is actually worse.

expatgirl.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Oh 🤯

polerin.bsky.social•3 hours ago

See I didn't even know that, and at the same time it is one of the least surprising things in the past few weeks. Elon's shit feels deeply American

billyidles.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Only his mother was Canadian

billyidles.bsky.social•3 hours ago

His father was a South African of British descent (not an Afrikaner)

billyidles.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Anyways during apartheid Boer was sometimes used to refer to the institutions of white South African domination, Afrikaner or otherwise. I believe that is the sense in which it is being used here.

sotreu.bsky.social•2 hours ago

No, I'm talking about Americans thinking he's specifically a Boer/Afrikaaner. A lot of whom don't know about the British settler history of South Africa.

sotreu.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Ahhh, okay, looks like Errol Musk's mom was British and his dad British-South African, which..... still a British settler in South Africa it sounds like.

tumblesweed.bsky.social•3 hours ago

a family legacy of colonizing wherever fascism is alive and thriving tracks tbh

redderbeanpaste.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Everything I learn about these people is more cursed

sotreu.bsky.social•3 hours ago

😭😭 yeah it's some sordid shit

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