White South Africans reject the nation by citing black mismanagement rather than racial animus.

Evidence

Now it’s not a question of I don’t want to be a part of their country but … they are busy fucking it up so much that I am not interested anymore. Do you understand? If it worked well then I would have said ‘awesome’. Do you understand what I am trying to say? So it’s not a question of … I don’t want to be part of it … because they are black. I don’t want to part of it because it is so shit there. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 171

Categorization

• QUESTION: How much of this re-encoding is conscious rhetorical strategy versus genuinely internalized self-narrative? The discourse analysis reads the function, not the speaker’s awareness.
• XREF: connects to: Whites often deny external causes for Black disadvantage without antipathy — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 181

Broader Connections

• Whites often deny external causes for Black disadvantage without antipathy #corroborates (0.95) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 181