Shoot the messenger
April 18th 2010 01:14
I’m surprised that the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, noted South African white supremacist, attracted so little attention outside the Rainbow Nation. Time ran a one-page brief, and it was mentioned in newspapers here in Melbourne, but there was very little analysis. At the very least, soccer fans should care because the World Cup is in less than two months. What will happen if there’s a race war?
At the very least, it would shatter the argument, proffered non-stop for the last 35 years or so, that Third World countries or peoples are inherently more benevolent than Western ones. In the last century, Europe may have given us the history-changing bloodbaths at Verdun, Auschwitz, and Srebrenica; but in that same time, Africa had Biafra, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, and Asia offered Manchuria, Burma, and Tiananmen Square. There is an equality here. Granted, Julius “Shoot the Boer” Malema does not have global ambitions or reach, but ignoring or whitewashing his genocidal urges still has a very real consequence: a skewed and distorted view of the world every bit as unfair as that of 1960s South Africa.
At the very least, it would shatter the argument, proffered non-stop for the last 35 years or so, that Third World countries or peoples are inherently more benevolent than Western ones. In the last century, Europe may have given us the history-changing bloodbaths at Verdun, Auschwitz, and Srebrenica; but in that same time, Africa had Biafra, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, and Asia offered Manchuria, Burma, and Tiananmen Square. There is an equality here. Granted, Julius “Shoot the Boer” Malema does not have global ambitions or reach, but ignoring or whitewashing his genocidal urges still has a very real consequence: a skewed and distorted view of the world every bit as unfair as that of 1960s South Africa.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Yes, I know little of sport, but I do know that often journalists and especially bloggers always favour a certain line of approach and have their own preferred agenda, and so much for freedom of the press and the ridiculous version of 'freedom of speech' which all too many regard as the right to swear boringly far too often which trend I notice is declining, as it seems some have actually begun to realize that there is more to writing than swearing your ? off.
Interesting point you have made.