The Pretoria News reported yesterday that the Tshwane Metro Police and the SAPF had to be called in to keep ANC supporters away from a DA rally held in Soloman Mahlangu Freedom Square.
The report said that ANC supporters taunted DA rally members with chants of “Anyone who votes for a white party is insane and should be lynched”.
The ANC supporters apparently also used a t-shirt with President Jacob Zuma’s face on it to “clean” the Solomon Mahlangu statue of “the DA dirt” (irony apparently missed).
Perhaps read the quote again. “Anyone who votes for a white party is insane and should be lynched”.
Here’s a simple thought experiment:
If you had to consider walking up to these supporters, in your DA t-shirt, without the cops; do you think their chants would still only represent an expression of their freedom of speech and not a threat of violence?
And if you walked up to this very same crowd, but they were singing, say, another kind of song, would your response differ?
I think this is an example of context.
[Source : News24]
