possibly the most disgusting blue tribe habit is hagiography of Nelson Mandela everybody who does this should be required to write an essay on what the practice of necklacing is, how they think it feels to have it done to you, and what they think its place in politics is
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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.
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that's a sensible position; i am not sure it goes all the way to Let Us All Schmoop Over Saintly Wisdom Grandpa
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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.
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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
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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.
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If you think that irregularly smuggled messages on toilet paper are any way to run a movement, you’re out of your mind. His own information was coming from smuggled newspaper clippings. The ANC would’ve been insane to send operational details to Robben Island.
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so the news that his people are doing this atrocity intended to make people talk about it never reaches him by any means including a friendly warder going "hey it's kinda messed up what your people are doing", or toilet paper does not suffice for "hey don't burn people alive"? k
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