The Economics of Hate and Love in South Africa: Postcolonial Queer Perspectives on Hate Crime Legislations
| Autor: | Antje Schuhmann |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 37-52 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2516-5518 2516-550X |
| DOI: | 10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0037 |
| Popis: | In early 2018 South Africa tabled the new The Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill before parliament. Less than a month later, the first White South African was sentenced to jail for racist slurs towards a Black policeman. One might interpret the coming into existence of this new bill as a result of the increased public awareness of racism as acted out by White people in today's post-apartheid South Africa every day in one form or another. An awareness that a younger generation of students in the context of the #FFM Fees Must Fall, #RMF Rhodes Must Fall, and other associated student protest movements, aiming since 2015 to decolonise the universities, generated and forced the public to take note of. A generation that pushed for the recognition of racialised differences and critiqued notions of colour-blind, non-racial rainbowism when arguing that racism and racist hate only become visible once the concepts underlying these practices of Othering are named: deeply ingrained notions of White superiority and Black inferiority on the side of the perpetrators. The new Hate Crimes Bill therefore does appear to be a direct result of these most recent developments; however it is more complex and the road map towards establishing such a bill, which next to race includes a whole set of other categories such as pregnancy, sexual orientation or albinism, started much earlier and was not really a straight one but actually received intense discussions within the LGTBI community about a decade ago. |
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