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Voting for the ANC doesn't mean 'uneducated': iLIVE
Pearl Pillay | 08 May, 2014 11:32
The notion that your ANC vote is a result of "brainwashing", "stupidity", "irrationality" and "emotion".
Allow me to tell you everything that's wrong with this view.
First, it is a very pretentious tendency when you feel like you have the authority to decide what constitutes being "educated".
Note: Having a degree does not make you educated.
Second, there's an inherent racism which assumes that the black constituency who votes ANC is doing so because they don't know better. Making that assumption undermines the rationale of black voters.
Someone once said to me: "Blacks vote ANC because they're emotional, not educated."
By making statements like those, you make the inference that black people aren't capable of reasoning and rational thinking.
The next problem is that you don't have an argument for members of the "educated" elite who vote ANC. Why do they do it? If we use society's standard to measure education, then people like me are well-educated.
I voted for the ANC yesterday.
Now what?
You don't need a degree to make a decision on who should govern your country.
And, just because you don't like the ANC, doesn't mean that those who do are less rational than you.
People vote ANC because, behind the scandal and media bias, they are the party that works to advance the struggle of the poor.
Admit it or not, but life is better because of the ANC. Whilst there are many, many problems, that remains the bottom line.
Working from the view that people who don't vote for opposition parties are stupid puts you in an arrogant position. You do not get to speak for the thought processes of those who voted differently to you.
The beauty of politics is that it is experienced differently by different people. Your privileged perception of the world is not the lived reality of millions of people in this country.
Our understanding of race, gender, class and economics vary because our realities vary. That people are unable to acknowledge and learn that is astonishing.
The very mentality that people who don't vote for parties like the DA are stupid is testament to the kind of mentality shared by many of their supporters.
It is this mentality that shapes the reality that the DA will never lead our country.
As we move forward to a decisive, sober, rational victory. Thank you ANC.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/ilive/2014/05/08/voting-for-the-anc-doesn-t-mean-uneducated-ilive
HAHAHAHAHAHA, let me assume that her vote is part of the 10% that voted for the ANC, the other 90% of the vote unfortunately is based on lies, corruption and underhanded tactics that she will never understand.
Pearl Pillay | 08 May, 2014 11:32
The notion that your ANC vote is a result of "brainwashing", "stupidity", "irrationality" and "emotion".
Allow me to tell you everything that's wrong with this view.
First, it is a very pretentious tendency when you feel like you have the authority to decide what constitutes being "educated".
Note: Having a degree does not make you educated.
Second, there's an inherent racism which assumes that the black constituency who votes ANC is doing so because they don't know better. Making that assumption undermines the rationale of black voters.
Someone once said to me: "Blacks vote ANC because they're emotional, not educated."
By making statements like those, you make the inference that black people aren't capable of reasoning and rational thinking.
The next problem is that you don't have an argument for members of the "educated" elite who vote ANC. Why do they do it? If we use society's standard to measure education, then people like me are well-educated.
I voted for the ANC yesterday.
Now what?
You don't need a degree to make a decision on who should govern your country.
And, just because you don't like the ANC, doesn't mean that those who do are less rational than you.
People vote ANC because, behind the scandal and media bias, they are the party that works to advance the struggle of the poor.
Admit it or not, but life is better because of the ANC. Whilst there are many, many problems, that remains the bottom line.
Working from the view that people who don't vote for opposition parties are stupid puts you in an arrogant position. You do not get to speak for the thought processes of those who voted differently to you.
The beauty of politics is that it is experienced differently by different people. Your privileged perception of the world is not the lived reality of millions of people in this country.
Our understanding of race, gender, class and economics vary because our realities vary. That people are unable to acknowledge and learn that is astonishing.
The very mentality that people who don't vote for parties like the DA are stupid is testament to the kind of mentality shared by many of their supporters.
It is this mentality that shapes the reality that the DA will never lead our country.
As we move forward to a decisive, sober, rational victory. Thank you ANC.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/ilive/2014/05/08/voting-for-the-anc-doesn-t-mean-uneducated-ilive
HAHAHAHAHAHA, let me assume that her vote is part of the 10% that voted for the ANC, the other 90% of the vote unfortunately is based on lies, corruption and underhanded tactics that she will never understand.
Whatever you say.