WI: South Africa reintroduces slavery and becomes a pariah state like North Korea

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Like how would the world react to a South Africa that is totalitarian to Black South Africans. How would pop culture react and just in general how would things Change in the world, especially with South Africa actually having nukes that can work. Thoughts?
 
Well he did seem to imply that this was an unbelievably bad thing

Sure, but he won't get banned. Someone else will.

Anyway, if they tried to do this (and it's honestly ASB) they'd be so much of a pariah state it wouldn't even be funny. Like North Korea crossed with Nazi Germany crossed with ISIS. They'll be taken out by the UN like that.
 
Sure, but he won't get banned. Someone else will.

Anyway, if they tried to do this (and it's honestly ASB) they'd be so much of a pariah state it wouldn't even be funny. Like North Korea crossed with Nazi Germany crossed with ISIS. They'll be taken out by the UN like that.
How would the UN take them out, when they have nukes? Also how could it be ASB, I didn't set up a POD Post 1945, so it could reintroduce slavery at some other point that's plausible,like say after a war for independence. Also how is this ban worthy, there are literally thousands of threads on how the Nazis and Confederate could survive , yet no one bats an eye so quickly like in here.
 
How would the UN take them out, when they have nukes? Also how could it be ASB, I didn't set up a POD Post 1945, so it could reintroduce slavery at some other point that's plausible,like say after a war for independence. Also how is this ban worthy, there are literally thousands of threads on how the Nazis and Confederate could survive , yet no one bats an eye so quickly like in here.

Well, I think that the evil in South Africa was at least pragmatic and savvy enough to not out-and-out announce the return of slavery. The UN would give them incredibly crippling sanctions and the world's opinion would be so far against the South Africans that a revolution is practically imminent. As far as bans, someones's probably going to go for South Africa apologia, so...
 
Well, I think that the evil in South Africa was at least pragmatic and savvy enough to not out-and-out announce the return of slavery. The UN would give them incredibly crippling sanctions and the world's opinion would be so far against the South Africans that a revolution is practically imminent. As far as bans, someones's probably going to go for South Africa apologia, so...

"Something something higher GDP... Something something white flight = genocide .... something something brain drain.... something something Mandela was a terrorist... something something 'if only Ian Smith ran RSA'.... something something cranial shapes" *buries head in sand*

In all seriousness, there are quite a lot of people that think like that. The next suburb over from mine is full of South Africans that emigrated, and they're about 50/50 pro and anti-apartheid.
 
"Something something higher GDP... Something something white flight = genocide .... something something brain drain.... something something Mandela was a terrorist... something something 'if only Ian Smith ran RSA'.... something something cranial shapes" *buries head in sand*

In all seriousness, there are quite a lot of people that think like that. The next suburb over from mine is full of South Africans that emigrated, and they're about 50/50 pro and anti-apartheid.

So, there's apartheid about apartheid?
 
As far as pop culture, South Africa is even more of a villain state than OTL, and is probably treated like FLaG's China under the Lesser Mao.
 

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How would the UN take them out, when they have nukes? Also how could it be ASB, I didn't set up a POD Post 1945, so it could reintroduce slavery at some other point that's plausible,like say after a war for independence. Also how is this ban worthy, there are literally thousands of threads on how the Nazis and Confederate could survive , yet no one bats an eye so quickly like in here.
Hammer meet nail. Even if South Africa admit they have nuclear weapons and will use it to defend an insane policy that's several kilometers to far even for the National Party, the UN and Security Council are going to impose a maximum embargo and launch a peacekeeping operation once the dust settles on a very volatile and violent Civil War between a minority of lunatics, the majority of whites who don't want this, and the native African majority who have finally reached a breaking point that'll make the Rhodesian Bush War look like a mild disagreement. UN won't care if SA tries to deploy nukes, given how the Security Council alone have enough to glass the Country several times over; even Chemical Weapons would be met with simply readjusting strategy to be more cautious. Their main objective would just simply be finding these nuclear weapons to stop them falling into the wrong hands, as well as form a transitional Goverment.

But surprise surprise, this won't happen. It's not plausible. It doesn't require magic or aliens, yeah, but it might as well be ASB because of the massive leaps in logic, character, and sanity needed for any South African Head of State to not only peruse this, but for such a policy to actually come into play. Now, you're not going to be banned. I find that kind of thing iffy, given how you haven't indicated you believe that South African Goverment should have done this. But the scenario itself is so implausible it makes me defend the National Party's sanity.
 
Why would they re-introduce slavery? Jim Crow taught racists that you could get all of the "benefits" of having a permanent, servile underclass with none of the downsides of ownership (you know, like actually having to provide *some* food and shelter instead of providing a pitiful wage and "well, he's just going to have to make it work"), all the things that made slavery so terribly expensive. Other than as a perverse "prestige" thing, I can't see this getting traction among anyone, even the crazy Apartheidites.
 
Worst thread ever.

This is ASB.

Nobody, not even the most hardened unreconstructed apartheid racist, would have thought introducing slavery was a good idea. Also expect an uprising among black people and, probably, a UN-backed invasion.

This is honestly one of the worst threads I've seen on this site. My IQ dropped at least three points by even reading the OP and applying my mind to the question.
 
Worst thread ever.

This is ASB.

Nobody, not even the most hardened unreconstructed apartheid racist, would have thought introducing slavery was a good idea. Also expect an uprising among black people and, probably, a UN-backed invasion.

This is honestly one of the worst threads I've seen on this site. My IQ dropped at least three points by even reading the OP and applying my mind to the question.
Calm down.
 
This is Domination of Draka level ASB

I mean, it doesn't matter how much racist someone is, it have been proven a century ago that paid work is give better results than slavery, plus this would bring the entire international community against south africa
 
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