Rebecca Davis

Woke Liberalism is an illness. Imagine accusing all white South Africans of being racist just because her parents might have been, and that rubbed off on her. @dailymaverick, this is why your credibility is at the lowest level it has ever been.

Dear Rebecca Davis (@becsplanb), I watched your video on the Daily Maverick's YouTube channel. The one in which you spend 15 minutes circling around the idea that Lex Libertas has links to crazy right wing groups from the 1980s and 1990s without ever asserting it. It reminded me of the MSNBC stories suggesting that Donald Trump must be a Nazi, because he spoke at Madison Square Garden, and there were Nazis at Madison Square Garden in 1939. You should know that I genuinely burst out laughing when I heard you say that when we say that there is wisdom to be found in the past, even though the past is not a destination, it's (according to you) impossible to interpret that in any other way as an endorsement of apartheid. You then make it clear that your viewers should consider me as a racist despite the fact that (as you concede very explicitly) there is no evidence of any racism. I suppose you never considered just how shallow that type of reasoning is. It comes across as particularly desperate to make a political point in the absence of evidence. You reached out to me directly on October 8, asking if I'd be willing to agree to an interview. I agreed, and suggested dates, but you never responded. And so you continued with this skit without asking for comment and without reporting on the other side of the story. That's perfectly predictable behaviour for a political activist, but extremely unprofessional for a journalist.