Thread by @wmnjoya

I hope we realize that there's a constant theme here. Whether we're talking of children in schools, extra judicial killings or rape, even Miguna's illegal explusion...the constant theme is Kenyans blaming the victims for violence.

What kind of people are we, surely?

https://twitter.com/Yithzackkhainga/status/1463944529732644864

So when do brutalizing teachers, rogue cops, rapists or officials disobeying court orders ever become responsible and accountable for their actions? What are we saying about them? That they are sadists, because the sadist blames the victim for the violence the sadist inflicts.

Kenya has a sadistic culture of glorifying cruelty because we support power at any cost, even at the cost of the victim. That's the essence of colonialism - the justification of power and the condemnation of victims.

No wonder @AdhiamboKE
talked of the age of atrocity. We seem to have an affinity for cruelty while justifying it as logical.
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If the price of having colonial institutions is violence against the vulnerable and lack of human empathy with victims, then I say we destroy the institutions and build new ones from scratch. Making institutions more important than human dignity is called IDOLATRY.

Human creations cannot be more important than human beings who create them.