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| Media Exploitation? |
| Ernie van Biljon - Saturday 08 March 2008 |
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| I'm not sure whether the media as such is deliberately trying to drive a wedge into SA society, but the people that control them (and especially the politicians)are definately using them for their own purposes!
The lastest episode at The UFS is avery good example of that: because whites were involved in humiliating blacks (and I agree their behaviour should be punished), the "whole world"s is now up in arms about it. A black minister has now even lambased women of the Free State for "being silent on the matter because women were also involved"!
However, nobody goes on the rampage when white farmers are killed and their wives raped, or innocent children are raped, or ethnic cleansing happens elsewhere in Africa - or elsewhere in the world for that matter! We have more discrimination in SA than ever before through affirmative action and BEE and the people in power now try to justify it through the "injustices" of the past.
If what I have done to you is wrong, then you are a hypocrite if you now say that you can do it to me because of what I did to you!
Exploitation and suppression of others has been part of the human race ever since man started walking this earth, and it has happened in Africa between black and black as much as it has happened in the rest of the world between people of different ethnicity and skin colour. But becuse somebody put some practice on the statute books that had been happening elsewhere for milenia, SA whites conveniently became the scapegoats of Western society and the world, to hide their own guilt and discomfort - and, boy, do the media play in the hands of those who can use these "exposures" for their own personal gain - and not for the benefit of the socalled "victims"! |
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