So Vicky Momberg(spelling) has being given a prison sentence for calling black police officers kaffirs.
Indeed it's despicable. There is a deep, long and sad history that accompanies that word.
Nobody should be using it and it's a shame that this woman decided to act in a racist way toward cops that were trying to help her.
Haven't read the case but I assume she's been jailed on the basis of hate speech. Hate speech directed at an individual, or a handful of individuals.
If that's how it is then that's how it is.
Doesn't bother me much since I don't go around calling people kaffirs anyway.
Still, how many people do so in private, on text message, email or in telephone conversations?
It was recently noted that Whatsap is being monitored by South African authorities making use of word and phrase recognition algorithms to hunt for criminals and racists.
Cool. Money well spent I guess.
I am assuming that if I went on stage, in front of thousands of people and exclaimed...
"Let all of us whites take blackness out back and shoot it in the head, like it deserves to be shot. Lets feed it's remains to the birds who are more worthy of life."
...and if this statement was then televised nationally I'd probably have ended both my career and given up my freedom.
Hate speech?
By definition seeks to cause harm and/or to inspire others to cause harm. The larger the inspired group is the more potential there is for harm.
Vicky got three years for using the word kaffir on multiple occasions. Using it as a personal insult. Not using it to inspire majority groups to commit violence against minorities.
So when Malman called for "the throat of whiteness to be cut" recently, in front of masses of applauding fans...he wasn't even asked to apologise for his outright racism nor his much more serious crime of incitement to violence.
This is the fascist fascist masquerading as psuedo liberal country SA has become.
How is one supposed to remain level headed and open minded?
