DA caucus slated as too white

Devviem said:
What I get from this statement is, that the black people from KZN are very racist and won't follow white leadership even if they got elected fairly!

This is sadly, according to me, a national problem under black people...
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White, Indian and Coloured people are no different. They are just better at using coded wording to express their opinions. If you think this is unique you need to find where this utopia doesn't exist...and give us all a heads up.

That's ignoring the fact that I am more likely to support and vote for someone from my own hood rather than the rich suburbs on the other side of the fence.
 
Op-Ed: Real progressives reject groupthink

And so, perversely, it has become “progressive” to revert to racial groupthink and undermine individual autonomy. It is now “progressive” to think and act in terms of the group; to require people to conform to an imposed group identity; to mobilise support along racial lines; to assume that people can only be represented by others of the same colour or gender; to employ binary formulations like “whiteness” and “blackness” in the manner of “four-legs-good-two-legs-bad”; and to silence dissenting voices by bludgeoning them into submission.
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“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this spectre by invoking it.”
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These two approaches to race – the racial representivity of the ANC and the non-racial diversity of the DA – represent “clear blue water” between the two parties. It is a distinction that we must constantly emphasise so that all South Africans understand the difference in our two approaches, and the consequences of each.
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Third, and most seriously, the proposed amendment is a significant departure from the DA’s value of non-racial diversity, and a tentative step closer to the ANC’s doctrine of racial representivity: “The party will to the best of its ability attempt to replicate diversity in its own ranks.” (emphasis added)

When you replicate something, you make an exact copy of it. In this case, the proposers of the amendment want the DA to mirror South Africa’s demographics defined exclusively in terms of racial groups, language and religion. There is little doubt that, if we embark on this path, we’ll be on a slippery slope towards ANC-style race quotas to ensure that “diversity” is “replicated” in the DA. This is racial representivity by another name, and we should reject it.
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Read the whole thing.
 
Road to the DA Federal congress: Fears that new diversity values will make party like the ANC

DA MP Cameron MacKenzie on Sunday added his voice to the debate and had some harsh words about Maimane’s proposed clause.

“It is patronising, insulting, and divisive, cloaking myriad unintended consequences behind an innocuous mask,” he wrote.

He argued against the quotas that such a diversity clause would imply.

“Our unwillingness to practise racial identity politics is what sets us apart from any other formation; it is a strength,” he said in his reply to the debate.
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Alan said:
Simple choice for the DA. Stick to their principles or whore for votes.
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moesie seems to think gaining votes at any cost acceptable. he should go join his comrades in the anc/eff, take the *** stirring delille and cronies with him.
 
Alan said:
Simple choice for the DA. Stick to their principles or whore for votes.
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Or modify the principles to be relevant to the space they operate in now, they have changed a lot from the "Fight back" days of Tony Leon's DP yet they have managed to hold on to the voters from those days while adopting new values and principles to gain new voters.
 
access said:
moesie seems to think gaining votes at any cost acceptable. he should go join his comrades in the anc/eff, take the *** stirring delille and cronies with him.
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One would think by now you should have accepted that the DA is no longer exclusively yours, clearly there is still a long way to go.
 
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