OPINIONISTA: Caster Semenya: A question about feminism’s end-game By Siya Khumalo SKhumalo1987
Our athletes just condemned gender-based violence,” we fawn in response to campaigns, never admitting that sports sponsors have their products inside domestic abuse perpetrators during the fact — the frequency of which matches the cycles of sports matches.
The line between public and corporate citizens’ funds is permeable, so such vigilance would prevent the creation of an “alternative economy” through which the most powerful remain “immune to the laws of economics” they’ve squeezed the rest of us into.Others say: “Sport can unite people, stimulating admiration for people outside their immediate social groups — remember Mandela and Francois Pienaar in 1995!” But we must also remember Ashwin Willemse in 2018.
A racist’s projections on sport are as real for him as whatever you project on sport, be it your sense of ownership, belonging and pride. They’re as real as racists’ pretence to non-racism, which, in a rugby fanatic who’d rather the unbanning of the ANC than miss the match, is transactional enough for what he wants, but not transformative enough for what black people need. Sport, often credited with shifting views, simply solidifies and disguises them.
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