Just consider the climate in which the University of Johannesburg cut ties with the Ben Gurion University earlier this year:
occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com...
Sad really when one considers that they were working on water projects that could have benefited the poor in SA (especially as SA faces a water crisis
due to ANC mismanagement).
They say individual academics can continue their relationships with the BGU - yeah right, and kiss your career goodbye.
And what have the ANC done to educational standards in SA?
People like Tutu should be apologetic about the state of our education and it's racial quotas and lowered standards, and now ruined institutions like
Medunsa, which under apartheid trained over 80% of black doctors in sub-Saharan Africa.
They really want to boycott Israel more, especially the Muslim faction of the ANC.
Unfortunately for them there's not much to boycott, except for Ahava cosmetics.
Last week I attended a lecture by a visiting liberal (well obviously) "queer feminist" academic.
Most of the talk was once again on Israel (yawn).
I just kept thinking: how can she unconditionally support terrorist groups that wouldn't think twice about stoning her to death, or at least giving
her a good lashing?
The irony and willful ignorance is astounding.
Oh yes, and it's fashionable to conflate Israel with apartheid in every sentence, by people who know nothing about it. That's how you get ahead these
days.
Unfortunately groups that become fashion statements will be forgotten in their slums as soon as a cosmetic change is made. Tragic really.
So I think my discourse wasn't really any more extreme then the liberal dominant discourse of the day.
As the new subaltern out-group in SA we are brow-beat into silence, at least in public discourse.
As the Afrikaans folk singer Koos Kombuis sang recently in a reworking of Marlene Dietrich's "Where have all the flowers gone?": "Where have all the
white liberals gone?"
There used to be so many, but one can only associate oneself with dysfunction and stupidity for so long.
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