politics
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“Hate speech legislation must not be applied absent-mindedly without the social context that makes South Africa the country that it currently is. It must be cognisant of social inequalities and take them into consideration when applied.”
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There are historical figures whose death will instantly spark a conversation about the gruesome horrors of apartheid, and the complicity of some individuals in the continuation of those horrors.
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Guess what? “The lesser evil” is still evil.
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Perform Conspiracy Theory enough times, and you start assaulting the truth.
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Words aren’t just words. They signify things. They create reality, for all of us.
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Mobilise a hyper-specific base around a hyper-specific message that subtly stokes racial tensions, and then gaslight anyone who sees the charade for what it is.
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Politics is a game of perception above all, and the image of something wins out over the reality. Therefore, it almost doesn’t matter what the truth is. What only matters is what people believe the truth is.
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It was a story that was begging to be told. It was a narrative that required recounting, in all its messy and dark totality.
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