Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On 13/01/2025 04:42, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

Sorry, SA is going down the proverbial toilet and
   it's not JUST a 'black'/'white' issue per-se.

On 2025-01-13, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

It never was. When I lived there in the apartheid days is was exactly to
'worker versus capitalists and rich landowners and merchants' type
scenario that led to the rise of labour style unions and so on in the
19th century in the UK.
It so happened that the yokels were black, but that wasn't their
defining feature. It was lack of education and opportunity, and changing
politics didn't fix that.

And that is true in the USA as well. The focus on skin color instead of
income/wealth/class problems has/is/will distract the country from
actually working on mitigating the social stresses.