The toxic xenophobic politics pushed by Gayton McKenzie and the Patriotic Alliance debases us all
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.here is always a risk that national liberation struggles can abandon any meaningful idea of liberation and collapse into toxic forms of nationalism.
Xenophobia is pervasive in our politics but has taken particularly crude and dangerous forms in the Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA and the uMkhonto weSizwe party, all of which take hard right positions on the question of migration and national identity, along with a number of other issues. McKenzie and the Patriotic Alliance are not the only participants in the unity government whose politics are at odds with those of the Constitution. Pieter Groenewald, of the Freedom Front Plus has, in the past, called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.
The Patriotic Alliance’s response was just as grim. The party issued a statement saying that “her family is fully Nigerian … and are celebrating her success as Nigerians not South Africans”. They also threatened to interdict the pageant organisers to have Adetshina removed. This is self-serving nonsense. Like all forms of prejudice, xenophobia is a choice, a choice to scapegoat a vulnerable minority for social problems and a choice to take a sadistic pleasure in the diminution of the equal humanity of other people. It is, as Jean-Paul Sartre famously said of antisemitism, a passion.
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