LETTER: White supremacists cannot tell difference between racist-baiting and race-baiting
Tony Leon ‘never once drew parallels between Nazis and NP politicians when he was their political whore, writing for their propaganda sheets’
Tony Leon, along with his “intellectual” peer David Bullard, has outdone himself by not only siding with the apologists for colonialism and racism, but also by revealing the true extent of his own, only partially subliminal racism. He also, as does Bullard, resorts to playing the man, suggesting that I hold the views I do to somehow curry favour with the current ANC leadership. He suggests that a person such as I could not possibly have anything to offer as an entrepreneur, he himself surely being the Steve Jobs of SA. Bullard played that card on my academic track record. This is the language of intellectual bullies, but like all bullies, a good punch in the proverbial snout is all that is needed to sort them out. This is the level people of Leon’s kind stoop to when they have nothing else to defend themselves with — lies and fake news. Lies and fake news are a trait of Leon and his political bed-fellows: Trump, Reagan, Thatcher and Zille. They play on words so as to constantly put ...
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