“We don’t like necklacing, but we understand its origins,” A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo would eventually admit. “It originated from the extremes to which people were provoked by the unspeakable brutalities of the apartheid system.”
Gee, that sounds rather familiar. Rather similar to the "oh, we have to understand the rioters, it's the fault of years of white oppression that they're looting Target and Best Buy!"
From one of the tweets in that thread:
This is entirely in line with what he was pushing for. When your political party repeatedly turns a blind eye - and your wife openly endorses - filling tires with gasoline jamming it around someone's arms and neck and then setting it on fire, what do you think the end result is going to be?
Gee, that sounds rather familiar. Rather similar to the "oh, we have to understand the rioters, it's the fault of years of white oppression that they're looting Target and Best Buy!"
That's barbarous beyond horrifying, I wish I could unread it. ,, did not click the link /god help us all.