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Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by ceejayoz on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:26PM (#49043637)
> Musk has said it was a common insult among schoolboys in S Africa.

Consider that maybe "derogatory things wealthy white South Africans say about people in the apartheid era" is not a great standard to live up to.

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Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by WalterBright on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:51PM (#49043767)
I never said it was. It also has nothing to do with apartheid.
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Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by ceejayoz on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:27PM (#49043939)
A white kid growing up in the 80s in South Africa has nothing to do with apartheid?
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Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by WalterBright on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:23PM (#49044209)
Playground insults have nothing to do with apartheid. Nor does it imply that every white child was evil.
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