Kenya is a shamelessly anti-African and traumatized society. When a Kenyan tweets about Kenyans suffering violence, especially in institutions, an army of bots descends here to save the reputation of the institution.
I'm convinced that the bots are paid by the government.
I'm convinced that the bots are paid by the government.
Who needs to save the reputation of the colonial institutions?
The ruling class and their foreign godfathers, because they have no legitimacy without the colonial institutions.
The middle class because they are educated and employed by colonial institutions.
The ruling class and their foreign godfathers, because they have no legitimacy without the colonial institutions.
The middle class because they are educated and employed by colonial institutions.
Why do these people rush to sanitize violence from schools and from the police?
Because violence is evidence that the institutions don't work. Therefore, violence implies that the government is inefficient and the middle class are trained to do bullshit.
Because violence is evidence that the institutions don't work. Therefore, violence implies that the government is inefficient and the middle class are trained to do bullshit.
How do these bots sanitize institutional violence?
1. They say that the perpetrator of the violence lacks personal morality
2. They sexualize the violence (like calling sexual violence against boys an expression of homosexuality)
3. They make fun of the victim (eg Miguna Miguna)
1. They say that the perpetrator of the violence lacks personal morality
2. They sexualize the violence (like calling sexual violence against boys an expression of homosexuality)
3. They make fun of the victim (eg Miguna Miguna)
What is the primary goal of these violence sanitizers?
To make the problem look individual rather than systemic. Making the problem individual means that we just blame, reprimand an individual and never ask questions about the institution that makes the violence inevitable.
To make the problem look individual rather than systemic. Making the problem individual means that we just blame, reprimand an individual and never ask questions about the institution that makes the violence inevitable.
What does this craze to sanitize violence on tweera show us?
That the GoK knows that
1. Stories are powerful. STORIES ARE POWERFUL.
2. How we interpret events matters. It matters.
3. Twitter matters. If keyboard warriors were useless, why does GoK invest in trolls and bots?
That the GoK knows that
1. Stories are powerful. STORIES ARE POWERFUL.
2. How we interpret events matters. It matters.
3. Twitter matters. If keyboard warriors were useless, why does GoK invest in trolls and bots?
4. The government of Kenya is a monster that is inefficient and out of control. It's made up of zombified civil servants with no empathy. When Kenyans suffer, civil servants don't see those Kenyans but immediately start to save the reputation of the government. It's so cruel.
5. The government and its institutions are fundamentally colonial and racist. Civil servants hate to acknowledge and address African suffering but are so quick to remind us the need for white people to be content in Kenya.
The intellectual challenge for Kenyans is how to keep thinking about society and systems, aka POLITICALLY, rather than about individuals and blame, AKA morality. We have to try very hard because the education system and the media and the church are always moralizing issues.
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