South Africa has been heavy in my algo feed recently:

• Trevor Noah
• Bryan Caplan on The Hanania Show
• this great story from David Nihill, an Irish comedian with the gift of gab, about the Grapefruit Ladies who kicked off an international movement to pressure South Africa to end apartheid.

I suspect this is laying the groundwork for an algorithmic and international push for a movement to censor Israel for genocide in Gaza

In It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers), Trevor Noah shares how apartheid-era South Africa had four official races: white, black, coloured (mixed), and Indian. And a funny haha situation where Japanese were considered white because they wanted the cars, while Chinese were considered coloured or non-white.

In fact, the Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese were considered "honorary whites", while Chinese and Filipinos were considered coloured.

In the early 80s, South Africa was quite wealthy, with rich agricultural...