Calm down.
I am a calm. This is just a horrible thread.
If it was in ASBs it would be fine, but it's ridiculous if the OP thinks this would ever happen in reality.
Calm down.
What about serfdom? Would it be less ASB if this was instituted in the early 1900s?
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.
Soviet invasion to liberate the Socialist Africans from Fascism. And USA quietly lurks in the background while trying their best to court the Black leaders...
If South Africa becomes a pariah state, wouldn''t that defeat the purpose of reintroducing slavery in the first place? Because no one in the outraged international community is gonna wanna buy all the gold, diamonds, and other precious minerals the slaves are digging up.
South Africa was pretty much a pariah state from the 1960s to the 1990s, and sanctions were only part of the reason apartheid ended.
Well, I remember drinking(unintentionally) South African wine in Canada in the mid-80s. And I remember people around the same time talking about how they were choosing to boycott South African stuff, which would further indicate that SA was exporting things.
In any case, are you arguing that, had NO ONE in the global community been buying South African wine, diamonds, gold etc. that South African industry could have just sold all those things internally to maintain the white minority at a decent standard of living? Or is it that they just never develop that SOL to begin with, as a result of earlier pariah-hood, and therefore don't feel the burn of international isolation?
That would be impossible. South Africa could be oppressive against blacks, but never slavery.
What if the while minority was pressed into slavery (unlikely for various reasons) as retribution for the years of apartheid.
What if the while minority was pressed into slavery (unlikely for various reasons) as retribution for the years of apartheid.
Even Mugabe hasn't managed anything quite like that, and if there is anyone who would try, it would be him.
So, can't see Mandela, or even the somewhat off-the-wall Mbeki or demagogic Zuma, going for retributive slavery.
But yeah, if it happened, well, I guess South Africa would take a bit of a tumble in the world's estimation.