A beauty, celebrated by a significant sector of our society is stripped once again and exposed, only this time in disgust and to public outrage.
This beauty was once on display before us and we gazed upon her with desire and lustful admiration but now this beauty has turned ugly by simply saying something that somehow cuts us deep, causing us to react in anger, even disgust.
And we turn towards her again… all of us, from all sides…
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/05/04/racist-tweet-model-stripped-of-title-by-fhm
One concerned person, perhaps speaking for most of us I dare to suggest, posted this sentiment:
“No kidding? This disgusting behaviour keeps dragging us back into the dark ages.”
She was stupid to tweet what she did, no doubt,… (and she has acknowledged this already) and the expression and its sentiment is without any doubt unacceptable, but I think on all sides of the politico-cultural swamp we think and feel the same things.
Perhaps some of us are more “socially appropriate” about it all and don’t succumb to that many ‘irrational’ outbursts and also not in such a public forum, but I believe it’s deep in there… in all of us.
Yes, she is totally out of line, but we perhaps should consider that it might not be any more than just us turning on her in a bestial “pack-mentality” … Perhaps vainly to purge ourselves of these inner demons through her vicarious substitution?
We are a sorry bunch, hiding behind the illusionary veneer of the vanity of our belief in ourselves that we are the worthy possessors of a superior intellect…. That we are above the other creatures, that we are good and upright, civil and morally just?
Instead, I’m sorry more for us as a species than for her alone…. It’s sad, very sad.
One Comment
Hey meneer. I agree with you. It’s such a shame that people say things like that. The unfortunate thing, in my opinion, is that if the tables were turned it would not have been a big deal. What’s happening to the world – I am anti-apartheid totally, but apartheid is being kept alive, the roles changed. It reminds me of the story of Jesus. He died for OUR sins. He came with love and he was murdered. In the same breath I think of mr Nelson Mandela – what a human being. His life-story reminds me of Jesus’. He sat in jail for 27years because he believed in a cause just so that his ‘followers’ can ‘crucify’ what he did. If I recall correctly it says in the Good Book that if we don’t accept Jesus/or sin (something alone the lines of that) we put him back on the cross. So it reminds me with regards to Mr Mandela. If only he could have been younger to rule our beautiful country:) we should start to love each other. The same people that crucified this lady… Is probably the biggest racists known to man. Just my 0.02c. Take care meneer. Much love!! Love your work.