How should we respond to racists?
Allowing racists a platform allows us to present arguments against them, which provides a social pressure of exactly the right sort. We can perhaps do nothing about racists themselves, but silencing the racists might simply make it easier for others to take her place, without us ever knowing it.
More on Gareth Cliff, Mngxitama (and now Magaxa)
My column on Andile Mngxitama’s response to Gareth Cliff has led to Khaya Magaxa “arguing” that people like me should be run out of universities.
Mngxitama on Gareth Cliff
Gareth Cliff is perhaps smug, and he might even be a racist. But no evidence that I am aware of shows this to be the case. By contrast, we do now have clear evidence of the racist views held by Andile Mngxitama.
Mark your X in the box labelled “stereotype”
If your view is that everything the DA does is racist, or that everything the ANC does is symptomatic of a creeping nationalism, then the problem is not the party – it is you.
On rape by deception and state-sanctioned racism
It’s entirely unclear that any relevant deception took place, which brings the legitimacy of a guilty verdict into question. It is of course not commendable that Kashour was unfaithful to his wife, but these deceptions make him typical of a known sort of man, who employs typical sorts of falsehoods in pursuit of seduction. These falsehoods are not right, but they are also not normally a legal issue
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