Shadow Foreign Secretary blasted after claiming anti-apartheid hero would have condemned student pro-Gaza campus protests, as Mandela’s grandson calls for students worldwide to join protests …
I don’t doubt that he’s sincere, but just because he’s Nelson Mandela’s grandson doesn’t make him that different from other people. I mean Winnie Mandela turned out to be a lovely person didn’t she?
Or is it the association with ‘that’ name grants him the special status? Would people be agreeing with him or taking notice if he said the opposite?
I don’t doubt that he’s sincere, but just because he’s Nelson Mandela’s grandson doesn’t make him that different from other people. I mean Winnie Mandela turned out to be a lovely person didn’t she?
Or is it the association with ‘that’ name grants him the special status? Would people be agreeing with him or taking notice if he said the opposite?
He could be wrong, but he has a better chance of knowing what his grandfather would have thought about something than a random lawyer.