I wrote about why Dylann Roof seemed so familiar to me http://t.co/9ckVtO8ZAc

— Laura Shortridge (@DiscordianKitty) June 19, 2015

Why do I feel I know him? Because if there’s something special about the social media age, it’s the fact that we can interact with people from other countries in revolutionary new ways.

The other day on Twitter, I met a very angry American who was absolutely convinced that “white genocide” is happening in South Africa, (I’ve met more than a few Americans who buy into this myth lately) and who seemed very upset with me for being a white South African who wasn’t currently being “genocided”.

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I explained that I was a white South African and that he had been misinformed, but this man who had never left America, never mind visited South Africa, was so sold on this image of a country of oppressed whites that he wasn’t going to allow little things like “facts” and “information” get in the way of this view.

At first he adopted a patronising, almost kindly tone, and tried to explain that obviously I was a victim of government propaganda hiding the truth, but when I continued to deny that there’s a wide-spread white genocide in South Africa, he became almost frighteningly angry.

I was warned that I would be brutally raped and murdered soon. (I find it amusing that the only people who have threatened me with violence from black people have been white people.) This person also (hilariously) hinted that very soon I would be put on an actual trial by some international governing body and punished for, essentially, the crime of being a white traitor.