instead we have this total fucking reality disconnect via media hegemonypic.twitter.com/yrepO4joOg
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instead we have this total fucking reality disconnect via media hegemonypic.twitter.com/yrepO4joOg
Nelson Mandela was in prison when the ANC started doing this. His letters were censored. His hands were clean (his wife, not so much). And, frankly, if brutally executing collaborators is the worst thing your national liberation movement ever did, you’re one of the good guys.
Whether it was a mistake to prioritize mercy over justice once he took power is another question. But if we saw this happening to Nazi collaborators in World War Two, we wouldn’t bat an eyelash.
wouldn't we? at the time we had this whole idea that things like torturing people to death (for definite real crimes and never inside baseball score settling) was something the other guys did. obviously we've long since abandoned that now
The US government may have had that idea, local resistance movements often did not, especially in Eastern Europe. I’m not saying it’s right, but I also don’t think it makes you just as bad as the other guy. Atrocities to enforce apartheid =/= atrocities to overthrow it.
that's a sensible position; i am not sure it goes all the way to Let Us All Schmoop Over Saintly Wisdom Grandpa
When he actually led Spear of the Nation, it mostly conducted industrial sabotage. He had no control over the organization from prison. His wife endorsed necklacing, he divorced her. And when he took power, he governed like saintly wisdom grandpa.
okay. you give vastly more credit to the idea that imprisonment was an effective removal of him from his organization than i do, but if one were to assign that credit the rest follows
How exactly was he supposed to communicate with the outside world? He didn’t even get to see his daughters until he’d been in prison for a decade. His correspondence was limited and heavily censored. He was kept in a separate wing of the prison with other political prisoners.
a completely inhumane punishment reserved primarily for race/class traitors? things that make you go hmmm
i mean nobody said the essay had to have any particular conclusion
holy shit i did not know about this
fuck, i have accidentally used my twitter powers for good
They do this in Haiti as well. But since they are ultra poor, nobody cares.
Tribe habit?
(blue tribe)(habit)
I'm judging, not asking
What fuck
In my timeline, he died of kidney failure in prison back in the 80's. Everyone who doesn't remember that is pod people.
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Ian Smith had a lot of good things to say about him. Can't think of any sub-saharan leaders who did a better job other than Kagame
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