Feral Tribunal, May 6, 1998
                                                                               VERDICT
                                          SWOLLEN PATRIOT
                                                                                                                            Vladimir Primorac

Večernji list columnist Milan Ivkošić has, in his “Patriotic naggings” column under the heading “Them”, fiercely criticized Rada Borić, coordinator at the Centre for Women War Victims and other activists at the Centre, proclaiming them Serbians, militant lesbians and advocates of a Great Serbian fascism. This outburst of intolerance and nearly a call for ostracism was not substantiated either with any evidence or argument and that is exactly why I personally stand behind those attacked and not behind the admirable “defender of the nation”.
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While writing this article, I thought of Milan Ivkošić’s “Patriotic naggings” columns published in Večernji list and of his recent text under the headline “Them”. Namely, I thought that this journalist could hold my repeated emphasis of women from the political and public spheres of life against me since, it seems, that women particularly bother him – especially if they have minds of their own, different from his. He has, as a Večernji list columnist, attacked Rada Borić, a program coordinator at the Centre for Women War Victims, because of her claims in a TV show, as he has stated, that violence had transferred from the battlefield to the family and that it had become violence against women.
Ivkošić argues that the mentioned lady and her companions speak for Great Serbian fascist aggressors, that activists of such organizations are in more than 80 per cent cases Serbians, that they represent the total opposite of the desirable Croatian family, that many of them do not have children or they are old and single, or lesbians and that they are transforming their lesbianism into militant ideology. He points out that their organizations are Yugo-nostalgic and have degenerative activities the same as their sorely-missed former Great-Serbian Yugoslavia for which they mourn.
I want to convince you, dear readers, that I do not know Rada Borić and I am not familiar with the Centre’s activities. I do not know the members of the mentioned Centre and I especially do not know their nationalities, what they have done or their political and ideological views. Also, I did not watch the TV show Ivkošić mentioned. You should be particularly confident about this because I am putting myself at risk of being proclaimed ignorant or at least of being uninformed. Why am I then reacting to that article?
I am reacting out of only one reason; because of the intolerance expressed in the article; the wish of the mentioned columnist to disqualify, denounce, stigmatize and to place a call for ostracism. Precisely because of such attacks on Mrs. Borić, her Centre and activists, and on other similar organizations – and without any evidence or facts which could substantiate his characterizations – I am for them, for the attacked and not for the Večernji list columnist, Ivkošić. They are closer to my emotional intelligence than those defenders of the nation only because of that.