• ???@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      @JustZ@lemmy.world here is the legal definition of the crime of Apartheid

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_apartheid

      "The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity “committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime" .”

      The other definitions are similar. Nothing about majority or minority. Nothing about having to be exactly like South Africa.

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      7 months ago

      Then why is that explicitly not part of the definition?

      “Similar” =/= identical. If all of the societal prejudice, injustice and disparity is still there but it’s 51% oppressing 49% instead of 49% oppressing 51% are you seriously saying that this is a totally different thing?