The DA is becoming the poster child of the Right - An examination of the language the party uses shows that it is echoing right-wing voices the world over in its insistence that those who point out its racism are, in fact, the real racists
People who value freedom and equality may notice that those who oppose both around the world have, for a while, begun using words and ideas they once rejected. The right wing around the globe is as opposed to both as it has ever been. But it has found mileage in pretending to embrace them. And, as the DA posters in Phoenix, Durban, have reminded us, wrapping prejudices in words that do not fit them is common here too.
Free speech is also a new favourite of those who believe they are better than others. “Thinkers” beloved on the Right never tire of claiming that their free speech is undermined because they are denied the right to insist that women are inferior to men, heterosexuals are superior beings and whites were right to dominate others.
If anyone has been subjected to “cancel culture” it is Palestinians, who are denied a hearing in the West. In countries that claim to be pillars of democracy, to support Palestinian rights is to risk dismissal if you are an academic or journalist; in France, a person was jailed for wearing a T-shirt supporting the campaign for sanctions against the Israeli state. Facebook censors pro-Palestinian voices while Zoom has barred meetings featuring Palestinian militants.
Steenhuisen reinforced this when he claimed the ANC was the “real racist” because it had racially stigmatised the Phoenix community. This seems to refer to a statement by Minister of Police Bheki Cele that he understood the pain of the people of Phoenix, but agreed with “the community” that there is racism there. But he later said, “I refuse to take the situation here as a racial situation.” Whether or not we find Cele’s views on Phoenix useful, it’s hard to see why they are racist.
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