Selective moralists and their ignorance of black racialism
A survey finds that what ANC politicians and Julius Malema find compellingly important is what people consider least significant, writes Rex van Schalkwyk
Julius Malema’s pronouncement that he is "not yet" calling for whites to be "slaughtered" speaks to an assertion that Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was deluded. The persistent, and tiresome incantation of the refrain of "white racism" by ANC politicians, enthusiastically supported by much of the mainstream media, conveys the same message; so does the mantra of President Jacob Zuma and of his acolytes, of "white monopoly capital" as the imagined source of the country’s ills. Almost entirely ignored by the selective moralists are all the innumerable examples of black racialism, with whites as the targets. There has also been a selective process of law-enforcement by the various law-enforcement agencies, one of which, the Human Rights Commission, eagerly asserted its authority against the thoughtless and hapless Penny Sparrow. There is fault here somewhere, but where does it lie? The ever-optimistic Douglas Gibson asserts that the people get along tolerably well together, and that t...
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