The world is beautiful, sometimes contaminated by humans with nothing more than hate to pimp via the media. As the media runs riot in the US, we have the press in Uganda printing the names of homosexuals at a time when some vicious people, pretending to be religious, are demanding the death penalty for homosexuality.
I'm all for freedom of speech. But surely there are limits? The Uganda press participating in this disgusting, dangerous activity bring shame, not to East Africa, but to the press.
For those of you not so great with geography, Uganda borders Rwanda. For those of you who have not kept up with history, Rwanda suffered genocide in the 1990s. 800 000 people murdered in a short few months. For those of you who don't pay attention, the US press, well is the US press. Currently, there is the election campaign targetting immigrants, the tabloid journalism that fails to inform the citizens about what really goes on while their country wages war. The list is almost endless.
The press were an active instrument in that orchestra.
The press in both America and Uganda are a threat to reason, possibly a threat to people.
Hate speech such be illegal in my view. But do not forget, the press relies on money. The most efficient way to stop hate speech is to refuse to purchase the peddlers of division, the bullies and to refuse to join in their dangerous delusions.
Have we forgotten the words 'Never Again' so soon, again? Or do we not understand their important meaning?
Monday, 1 November 2010
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