"Trump's Fake Refugees": As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges "Genocide"

[Uncle Joe]

The Trump administration has suspended refugee resettlement for most of the world, but welcomed 59 white South African Afrikaners Monday who were granted refugee status. President Trump claims Afrikaners face racial discrimination — even though South Africa’s white minority still own the vast majority of farmland decades after the end of apartheid — and claims they are escaping “genocide.” This accusation “is a conspiracy theory and a myth that has been floating around echo chambers of right-wing populists and white nationalists for many decades now,” says Andile Zulu, political essayist and researcher at the Alternative Information and Development Centre in Cape Town. We also speak with Herman Wasserman, a South African professor of journalism at Stellenbosch University, who says the Trump administration is using Afrikaners as “pawns, as props in a campaign that purports to promote whiteness.”

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[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[sop]

2. White christian nationalsts are stoking fears about a white minority they are portraying as "endangered."

Their narrative is the fate of Afrikaners in South Africa will be that of white conservatives in the United States.

[Traildogbob]

3. Can we

Send them, persecuted white south Africans to the Freedom Zone of Gaza to begin Populating the paradise packed with trump Time Shares with pure white Christian’s? Who cares if they hate Jews. That’s Pite American. No abortion, no they can not go to Israel for free ones, no birth control, not condoms. Breeding at Age 10 is encouraged, even within the family, and pop em out as long as you can. 24/7 MEGA church TV. Mandated to watch.
All welcomed with open arms by Muslim and Jewish next door neighbors. White is bright, white is right!!!!