Post by cjm on Dec 5, 2019 5:29:37 GMT
“As per the judgement, these comments were indeed racist, crude, insensitive, barbaric, and made with the intention to cause hurt, harm and cause incitement to propagate racial hatred. The judge was correct in noting that the comments amounted to the advocacy of racial hatred. In fact, the judge found that there could be no greater advocacy of hatred than to rejoice in and celebrate the death of innocent children simply because of the colour of their skin,” Van der Bijl said.
Solidarity, whilst supporting the right to free speech, argues that behaviour which, in its very essence, contends that a racial group is not worthy of being accorded equal dignity and respect under the Constitution and that they are in fact not even deserving life, given that death in their midst should be celebrated, cannot be tolerated, pardoned or left unpunished.