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Mercer’s views outrageous

Dear Editor:

Shoot first, think later (or
not at all),

Tana Mercer must have
gotten the journalistic ana-
logue of a Kalashnikov ay an
carly Valentine's Day gift and
is busy trving it our.

In her Feb. 6 column
(“Drawing the line on human
rights”) she joyfully and indis-
criminately draws a bead, then
sprays with rapid-firing invec-
tive just abour everyone on
her left.

Be grateful.

The casualties would have
been higher had there been
any substantial numbers on
her Tight. Talk about “bash-
ing” and “whining!”

But aside from the sheer
exuberance of her attack,
there is nothing new in her
method. It’s called the Least
Common Denominator
Approach (LCDA) and was
widely used by both sides dur-

ing the Cold War. It goes like
this: if vou can find somerhing
worse ebewhere — in poverty,
crime, pollution, faves, what-
ever, then be coment with
what vou have, and don’t
point fingers at us, point fin-
gers at them.

For Canadians this means
that until crime reaches the
proportions in’ South Africa,
poverty is as intense and wide-
spread as in Bangladesh, pol-
lution as stifling as in Beijing,
and ethnic violence as lethal as
that cf Rwanda or Bosnia, jt
shut up!

If youre really disturbed
by these inequities and iniqui-
ties, then devote your efforts
to improving the situation in
all chose countries, where they
are quite unlikely to be effee-
tive, and ler Canada sink into
its own morass without a
peep.

Ms, Mercer is also (big sur-
prise) quite willing to torget

ews

about history in her depiction
of crime in South Alfica, her
country of origin.

For starters, mavbe she
should try John Readers’
african, a Biography of she
Continent, Talk about crime!
Perhaps she doesn’t know the
history of Somerset, Rhodes,
Leopold, de Beers and others
responsible for the physical
eradication of
black Africans, the disruptien
of their socieries, and deroga-
tion of their lives and culture.
No wonder she ridicules
human rights advocates; she
apparently is simply unfamiliar
with the whole concept.

What Ms. Mercer does
understand, however, are the
media. Be outrageous and vou
will be read T have been vie-
timized once. Never again.
Eugene Kaellis
Burnaby Multicultural
Society
bms@iriag.net

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