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The party’s spokesperson has come out in support of an extremely insensitive social media comment causing widespread outrage.
Black First Land First (BLF) spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp has come out in support of a comment by Facebook user Siyanda Gumede, in which he said he “doesn’t have a heart to feel pain” for the three children who died after the tragic collapse of a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark, who he assumed to be white.
The races of the victims of the disaster are not yet known. Hoërskool Driehoek is reportedly a dual-language school.
READ MORE: Facebook user unleashes rage with comment on three dead Hoërskool Driehoek ‘white kids’
This didn’t stop Gumede, who was responding to an SABC post on the tragedy, from arriving at the conclusion that the three children were white. He tweeted that he was unmoved by their deaths, as they would eliminate “3 future problems” from the world.
Unsurprisingly, the post was met with instant outrage from social media users across the racial spectrum. Gumede’s Facebook account has since been blocked to the public amid the outcry he has been receiving.
READ MORE: White existence is a crime, says BLF spokesperson
This outrage did not stop Maasdorp from tweeting in support of the Facebook post, although the tweet has since been deleted.
According to the BLF spokesperson, Gumede was “correct” in posting the comment.
Maasdorp’s tweet continued to say that he believed that the incident showed “God is responding”.
“Why should we frown on the ancestors’ petitions to punish the land thieves including their offspring,” he added.
The party’s spokesperson has come out in support of an extremely insensitive social media comment causing widespread outrage.
Black First Land First (BLF) spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp has come out in support of a comment by Facebook user Siyanda Gumede, in which he said he “doesn’t have a heart to feel pain” for the three children who died after the tragic collapse of a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark, who he assumed to be white.
The races of the victims of the disaster are not yet known. Hoërskool Driehoek is reportedly a dual-language school.
READ MORE: Facebook user unleashes rage with comment on three dead Hoërskool Driehoek ‘white kids’
This didn’t stop Gumede, who was responding to an SABC post on the tragedy, from arriving at the conclusion that the three children were white. He tweeted that he was unmoved by their deaths, as they would eliminate “3 future problems” from the world.
Unsurprisingly, the post was met with instant outrage from social media users across the racial spectrum. Gumede’s Facebook account has since been blocked to the public amid the outcry he has been receiving.
READ MORE: White existence is a crime, says BLF spokesperson
This outrage did not stop Maasdorp from tweeting in support of the Facebook post, although the tweet has since been deleted.
According to the BLF spokesperson, Gumede was “correct” in posting the comment.
Maasdorp’s tweet continued to say that he believed that the incident showed “God is responding”.
“Why should we frown on the ancestors’ petitions to punish the land thieves including their offspring,” he added.
