воскресенье, 4 марта 2012 г.

Misplaced nostalgia.(News)

Jacob Zuma says we need to teach people to fear God and force children to pray before school "as it was in the past" (November 21).

Once again, our would-be president shows his chameleon-like nature - pandering to his immediate audience.

Put aside the whimsy of nostalgia - the past was brutal and nasty, even at the Calvinistically influenced education facilities of the apartheid regime.

Nostalgia plays into the hands of the right wing - that it was "better" under apartheid.

Zuma asks us to discard the Bill of Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion", and overrule the constitutional …

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