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Speaking to the MailOnline, Errol said he's proud to watch his son "accepting who he is". He said: "I think for the first time Elon was accepting who he is. Until recently, he's been a sort of character on a stage.

"When you come from South Africa, Lefties think you're a Nazi. To succeed, you need to be accepted by them so my sons, [Elon and younger brother Kimbal, a hugely successful restaurateur], started to become these flaming liberals – turning away from South Africa and their roots, which included me. Finally, Elon was embracing his heritage and his destiny."

In a separate interview, Errol explained how right-wing poltics were at the core of his family's history. Elon's maternal grandparents relocated from Canada to South Africa in the early 1900s as they knew the Afrikaner government was a stronghold of support for Nazism outside of Germany.

"They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff. But they didn't know, I don't think they knew what the Nazis were doing. But they [the grandparents] were in the German Nazi party but in Canada. And they sympathise with the Germans. "

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[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just a reminder that the former Mayor of Regina later became Canada's notorious KKK Member of Parliament. So Regina, settler haven of starlight tours and other delightful forms of subjugation, wasn't racist enough for these degenerates.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just one small edit there ... Saskatoon was the settler haven for starlight tours beginning in the mid/late 70s.

Source is me ... I lived there in the 70s and 80s and had a couple of male friends it happened to (they survived).

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 weeks ago

For those who need to what a starlight tour is, it’s when the police would drive indigenous people out in the country at night in the middle of winter.

[-] quafeinum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And then leave them there. Missing the important part

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