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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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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My point is he wasn’t calling the shots. The head of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, agreed to abide by the Geneva Convention in 1980. Even if l Mandela retained enormous influence over official policy from prison, that policy was already against necklacing.
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Saying he’s complicit because he never condemned it is very different from saying he’s complicit because he made it happen.
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yes; to be clear, i have no reason to believe he invented or promoted the practice, my picture of his involvement is solely one of not detectably lifting a finger to stop it from happening
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which i do not regard as the behavior of Saintly Wisdom Grandpa
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