r/MurderedByWords • u/iTriggerChuds • Dec 11 '19

Murder Someone call an ambulance

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u/Yorikor Dec 11 '19

And the second richest Canadian at the same time.

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u/hieronymous-cowherd Dec 11 '19

I had to look that up, and it's true. On Wikipedia, he's currently at over $24 billion in net worth, has US, Canadian, and South African citizenship, and his net worth puts him solidly behind Reuters, but well ahead of the family heads of Alibaba, Loblaws, Rogers, and Saputo.

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u/imdivesmaintank Dec 11 '19

Bob Loblaw?

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u/legendaryunit Dec 11 '19

With the law blog, right?

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u/imdivesmaintank Dec 11 '19

Why should YOU go to jail for a crime someone ELSE noticed?

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u/padishaihulud Dec 12 '19

Classic Bob Loblaw lobbing law bombs.

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u/phoenixphaerie Dec 11 '19

He is not.

Reddit loves to be really stupid about this, but “African-American” is analogous to “Native American” in that it refers to a specific population of people. They are not catch all terms.

African-American specifically refers to the black descents of African slaves brought to America.

So no, Elon Musk is not African-American, any more than my being born in Texas makes me a “Native” American.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

You are yelling into a void. These people couldn't care less. Its just another way of disrespecting black Americans for them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

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u/phoenixphaerie Dec 12 '19

It’s not really misleading. The US is a nation of immigrants, and (once upon a time at least) people were happy to refer to themselves by tacking -American to their original heritage (German-American, Italian-American, etc).

Black people didn’t have the luxury of doing the same since slavery by design prevented them from knowing where in African they originated from.

So African-American/Afro-American was invented to allow Black Americans to do the same, while also giving a name to the shared culture slaves and their descendants created.