Complaint Laid Against Terre Blanche for Racist Comment

[Nachtengel]

blah blah blah... racism... blah blah blah

Gia Nicolaides | Yesterday

A complaint has been laid with the South African Human Rights Commission against Afrikaner Weerstansdbeweging (AWB) Leader Eugene Terre Blanche over a comment he made in Pretoria over the weekend.

Terre Blanche reportedly pointed at the statue of Chief Tshwane at the old Pretoria City Hall and referred to him as ‘an apie’, meaning a monkey.

Communications official Panyaza Lesufi said he was deeply offended.

“I was deeply hurt and this morning it was with a heavy heart that I had to approach the Human Rights Commission and lay this complaint. I really believe that people like Terre Blanche have no room in our new found democracy,” he said.

http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/arti....aspx?id=28081

[Bernhard]

"I really believe that people like Terre Blanche have no room in our new found democracy,”

The essence of democracy.

[Resist]

Free speech and democracy: free for everyone except [insert person or group you dislike here].

It seems rather pointless to preach about democracy and free speech when unpopular opinions are the only ones that get silenced or punished. I thought the whole point of free speech was to protect unpopular opinions. Mainstream opinions don't need protection.

Democracy is rather hypocrisy. I never liked or trusted it, and it hardly ever seemed to work.

[Rooikat]

The monkey should take Panyaza Lesufi to court, for insinuating that the Thief..spelled chief by africans... was on the same intellectual level as the monkey. Go Apie go........

[rainman]

Maybe he was from the past and hadn't realized yet that the apes had taken over the planet.

[NormanRollo]

What's awesome about Eugene Terre Blanche's last name is that in french it litterally means "White Earth" or "white land". One may say that he was destined to be a white nationalist

Anyway, these human rights and anti-racist groups are probably the biggest enemies of free speach, as its only for racism and human rights issues that some subjects are "outlawed" in many western countries. The worst part of it, is that they then invoke "democracy" to justify the breach in free speach.

[Ocko]

To be honest: Comparisons between humans and animals are not very honorful.

I don't like black people either and see their many faults but I do believe to insult them is a moot point.

[Nachtengel]

What about when G. Bush was satirized as a chimp? Was that 'racist'?

[Hauke Haien]

The taxonomical validity of the slur depends on whether 'an apie' refers to a member of the Anthropoidea or the Hominoidea.

[Ward]

To be honest: Comparisons between humans and animals are not very honorful.

I don't like black people either and see their many faults but I do believe to insult them is a moot point.

I must admit that I am not one for keeping company with lowbrow skinheads and Klansmen types, and for Terre Blanche to publicly make such a comment during these times was impolitic.

But comparing the general behavioral tendencies of certain peoples and races to animals is not necessarily dishonorable, and if we are ever going to kick these foreigners out of our lands, at some point we're going to have to stop being so genteel.