The old South African flag was a symbol of Apartheid South Africa and should be declared hate speech under the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act , the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Monday.
“The very purpose of a symbol is to act as a short-hand for an idea or a group. And flags are quintessential symbols,” she said. “I don’t need to dwell on the offensive nature of these stances,” he said, “they just need to be read into the record,” said Ngcukaitobi. Doing it in public - “in full view of the black people who were humiliated and degraded by the apartheid state” - was to send a profoundly humiliating, degrading message to all black people, said Trengove.
He quoted legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, who said “morally responsible people insist on making up their own minds …. Government insults its citizens, and denies their moral responsibility, when it decrees that they cannot be trusted to hear [certain] opinions”.But Ngcukaitobi also accused Afriforum of “double speak”. On the one hand it said that it did not support the old flag and discouraged its members from displaying it.
So America should ban the confederate flag?
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