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Rachel Wandeto Njoki [Courtesy, Meta]
A few weeks ago, many Kenyans were shocked by an attack on a senator that pointed to the dangerous precedent we are setting of responding to political disagreement with violence.
This week, a young woman, Rachel Wandeto Njoki, lost her life while receiving treatment after she was allegedly attacked for bearing a tattoo associated with a politician. Whether the details of this incident are eventually confirmed or not, this tragedy points to a frightening state of political intolerance.
We are increasingly defining people by the leaders they support, the ideals they subscribe to, and the slogans they chant or even the tattoos they bear, while forgetting they are human beings and Kenyans, first. Politics, which ideally should be a contest of ideas, is slowly turning into a battlefield of emotions. And that should worry all of us.
