Use of PR terminology to frame conversation:
1. "seperate development" attempts to call the active violence on non-white people, esp black folks, "development"
2. He apologises for "pain, hurt" not "harm, abuse, death, land theft, segregation, sustained economic marginalisation'
The FW de Klerk Foundation has released a series of videos of his final words.
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This thing WAS way bigger than him, and if ever there was a time this could have gone beyond words about his own personal journey, that time was now.
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Yet here we are, with a thoughts-and-prayers goodbye-apology after a wildly poor choice of words in 2020:
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All those reflections and words still leave those left behind with all the work to demolish massive, multigenerational racial inequality.
That's why there is so little satisfaction with his words and so much debate about who they were for, and why they were needed.
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The minute there is understanding as to who the target audience of that apology were (because it is clear who it was not for), we'll understand that video better.
What a time.
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It's giving last-minute-confession-to-slide-through-the-Pearly-Gates, and -
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FW De Klerk first represented the National Party in the early 70s. Anyone who thinks he was some pro-democracy sleeper agent waiting for 20 years for the perfect time to rip the apartheid government to shreds should not be trusted with keys, contracts, or machinery of any kind 1/
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Your friendly reminder that Nobel peace prize winner and white revisionist history darling FW De Klerk literally burned so many state documents to hide the crimes of his government that they had to use the Iscor smelter in Pretoria.
Yes. A steel plant furnace.
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Historical memory. No to whitewashing Frederik Willem de Klerk:
—de Klerk had limited relationship w/ Mandela, Tutu et
—he opposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission estab to investigate apartheid’s crimes against humanity
—he pushed blanket amnesty for apartheid’s criminals
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@sthembete
This is unfortunately not simply PR. Its much more shrewd. This is a man seemingly coached by his lawyers to preserve whats left of his estate from court cases. That's my impression.
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@DrinkOPopPapi
Separate development is referring to the spatial planning. That's the physical aspect of apartheid which is still here.
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@njokingumi
Subtle conditioning for sympathy with the painting back there… is the lady holding red poppies?!
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@njokingumi
The man apologized and he is dead. What more do you expect from him. This is a classic case of taking poison and expecting somebody else to die.
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@Ethereal_ilo
You know, I started watching this as it appeared on my YouTube TL. Shut it down after a few minutes. Just cannot deal with the ......
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