Special treatment is usually reserved for, less capable *ahem* people. You treat a child or a retarded person differently because they are socially, mentally and emotionally inept and incapable performing on the same level as an adult. Being treated differently should worry any mentally and emotionally mature and sane person because it means there is something wrong with you and is either the consequence of youth or well, just that you are probably just slow or a ****ing retard.
A lesson in South African gaming of race/colour/ethnicity. In South Africa we get 3 classes;
- Normal
- Special
-
Speshul (all colors)
The last has zero to do with skin tone/melanin/reflectiveness/... - think of it as nature vs nurture.
If somebody is normal but happens to be black, he's a
coconut. The
coconut corrupted by Western colonialism. The
coconut tries to do the best for his family and accepts responsibility for his own destiny. Let's not even go down the
yellow bone road:
https://mg.co.za/article/2016-06-29...compliment-all-it-will-get-you-is-an-eye-roll
Coloured & Asian - from whatever origin, either indigenous or other? All good: you're black when the black
speshuls wants something from you. But if it can be used to your disadvantage if the
speshuls can gain advantage.
White - no matter what your family's history is, you're
speshully fvcked. Afrikaans and white? Doubly so. Male, Afrikaans and white? You poor, poor bugger!
Ironically the
speshul types labelling other people love Breitlings, BMWs, social media and the internet, their western caps & t-shirts ... all the products based upon science they wish to decolonize. Go figure. Poster boy for this class:
https://twitter.com/JamilFarouk
The
speshulness is what's undermining not only us as a country, but Africa as well. It's the
speshulness that makes 30% a pass mark to create more
spehuls. It's
speshul that develops own standards rewarding failure if normal standards of excellence is not acceptable. It's
speshul that suddenly traumatizes somebody with something that is a normal knock in life. It's
speshul that is the breeding ground for entitlement. also patronizing people (just don't mention it too loudly or all hell breaks loose).
Being
speshul in South Africa is
espeshully rewarding - the professional victim status.
So yes, labelling as
speshul is a slap in the face of people that attain what they do through hard work, accepting the responsibility for themselves.