Oh, I’m absolutely certain you’re correct there. This is about as transparent as it gets. I was just curious about his actual citizenship, since an admittedly shallow search didn’t turn up an answer.
My comment was removed as it was a reply to an obvious trøll, but I think it bears repeating:
First up, linguistically when you make a compound out of two or more words, that new phrase usually means a new thing which is different from the sum of its parts.
Charlize Theron is from Africa, and she is American, but she is not African-American. And yes, she made a joke about it that time.
The thing is, she was joking about this, to highlight the difference there. When DeSantis said it, he was not joking, and he was not highlighting the difference, he was trying to deny and erase it.
One of the things fascists do is control language. When they attack a population, they take away all that population’s ways of talking about themselves and replace them with their own ways. Sometimes they even do so by taking those precise words and phrases and poisoning them. The idea is to make it impossible for that population to talk positively about themselves, or in the extreme, even to think positively.
DeSantis is deliberately trying to destroy the language African-Americans can use to describe themselves, so that he can replace it with what he decides they get to be called. Once he can do that, the rest follows.
He must not be allowed to succeed in this.
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All you need to do is Google “Elon Musk citizenship” or some combination of that. Apparently he has US, Canadian, and South African citizenship. I’m sure he pays nothing in taxes to any of those countries.
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Reminds me of a US TV channel referring to a Brit (maybe Lewis Hamilton?) as “British African-American”, I think because they couldn’t bring themselves to say the word ‘black’.
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He would only have to pay taxes to the US, where he lives, anyway.
Only the United States taxes based on citizenship. All other countries tax based on residency. This is main reason I declined US citizenship. I didn’t wish to file US taxes for the rest of my life, despite no longer living there.
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And the quiet part is a prefix along the lines of “my kind of” or “the right kind of”.
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