I don’t usually find myself taking Julius Malema’s side, mostly because of style rather than substance, but I think he and I are on the same page on this one. Can we all just stay here in Reasonable Land for a little while and that acknowledge that as bad, foolish, harmful, and shameful as Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS policies were, and they were a whole bushel full of awful, they are not in any way, shape, or form comparable to genocide? Let us not add Reductio ad Genocidum to the list of egregious rhetorical tactics that poison the well of public dialogue.
