EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION
SIMON LINCOLN READER: Social justice logic disguises fear of popularity decline
Western universities that are funding campaigns to investigate links between former leaders and slavery, fashionable movements declaring guilt before verdicts, denial that black people can be racist, independent thought censorship, use of the pejorative term Uncle Tom at its highest, portraits and busts removed in attempts to demonstrate that history can be destroyed and the overwhelming liberal-left positions of the majority of traditional and new media companies …. It in is this context of global contemporary social justice that land expropriation without compensation is occurring in SA. Pity Robert Mugabe. Had he introduced "land reform" in 2016 as opposed to the late 1990s there would have been no condemnation — and no travel bans. Faced with the gratuitous circumstances of today’s obsession with political correctness in the pursuit of social justice, I imagine he would have moved his office from Borrowdale to St James, where he could have held court with others in the aristocra...
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