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Charlize Theron would be well advised to cease making further comments about Afrikaans or Afrikaners.
During a conversation with the SmartLess comedy podcast featuring Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett last month, she said Afrikaans was a “dying language” that was “definitely not helpful”. She also made a hyperbolic joke that there are “about 44 people still speaking it”.
Cue outrage, think pieces, open letters, and Steve Hofmeyr getting his knickers into a twist.
Charlize has yet to publicly respond to the backlash and had gone all of a month without posting on Instagram. She broke that duck this week:
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A post about pledging to raise funds for an NGO that will buy and maintain bicycles for African Parks, a conservation organisation – that’s nice.
Well, those who were upset about her comments had been waiting for this moment and they came in hot.
Some of the comments on that post include:
You get the picture.
I always wonder what kind of person feels the need to hurl abuse at celebs on social media. You really showed her, @baksteen1652.
Let’s see a few more:
There’s that racism showing through. Good work. That’ll show everyone.
At least there was the odd humorous take:
— Nandi Labuschange (@nandigold13) November 29, 2022
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