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.
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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No one who seriously pushes this narrative believes that Mandela was always a saint. The whole point is that he renounced violence after advocating for it (and engaging in it!) for many decades. Militant revolutionary becomes pacifist.
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okay, good. that isn't really what filters through the layers of tarting up, tbqf
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i am kinda left to wonder why a convert to pacifism would never say word one against a practice like this, but maybe he was busy
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I don’t know; he didn’t specifically call out terrorism, either, but he stopped doing it. It’s like if Lenin, on the eve of the October revolution, said, “nope, we’re going to do this peacefully. No one hurt the aristocrats or the bourgeoisie.”
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