Constantly see people online talk about “when the robber comes thru my door” or whatever, and some of it is memes, but a lot of it is just people legit discussing what the “best weapon” to fight robbers breaking into your house at night would be - Giving it so much thought as if it is a legitimate concern. So is it? Does it happen a lot?
It’s really weird because home invasions are much more common in South Africa than the US, yet we don’t obsess about it but nearly as much, even if most doors have security gates and windows are barred over here. Mainly some deranged chuds obsess about it, but not your average person, even those that have unfortunately experienced it. Here it’s more a vigilance thing, lock the doors and gates, make sure your car is locked, make sure no one is following you home, etc.
I thought y’all had like broken glass and debris on top of y’alls’ stone walls…
Was this western propaganda?
We do have spikes or barbed wire on the top of walls (and even electric fences in the richer areas), and when I say security gate, I mean similar to the kind you see at prisons. It’s not entirely propaganda, South Africa is a very dangerous country. Crime is very bad, especially violent crime/robberies and gender based violence against women. But we don’t have broken glass on walls, barbed condoms, or cars with flamethrowers, that’s just fake news really, and that’s the propaganda.
Ic. there are certainly parts of america this way as well.
Especially very expensive houses next too straight up slums. idk why, but Rich people love to overlook the slums.
I always joke that if there was a zombie apocalypse South Africa would come out on top because all our houses are already fortified lol.
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I used to work at a place that had a department in South Africa and would meet up with them every so often. I’ve always struggled to come up with a Marxist analysis of the situation (mostly due to ignorance) in an attempt to redirect the chuds I worked with away from the ‘poor blacks causing trouble because that’s just how they are’ type thinking that they were predisposed to. Have you done a post about something like this anywhere on Hexbear?