The Trump administration has accused the current South African government of pushing racist, anti-white policies through affirmative action laws and a recently passed land expropriation law that Trump claims allows for the wrongful seizure of Afrikaners’ land.

Chrispin Phiri, a spokesperson for South Africa’s Foreign Ministry, called the administration’s allegations “unfounded” in a statement released last week, saying they “do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law.”

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    I’ve been hearing about an alleged ‘massive white genocide’ in South Africa since the late 90s. Apart from a few white farmers getting murdered and their murderers going to prison, there is nothing else… in fact, the murder rate of white farmers by blacks was lower in the late 2000s than it was in the early 80s when apartheid was in full swing.

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      A lot of these idiots were stocking up on tinned food and prepping for the apocalypse before '94. They really are the typical conservatives where they’re simultaneously bullies that treat people like shit and ruin lives without a conscience, and the biggest victims of persecution in the world.

      And as far as farm murders go. I’m really not condoning violence or minimising some of the awful, brutal things that have happened in that regard, women and children included. But I went to a boarding school in a shit hole conservative farming town in the early 2000s and there were a couple of farm murders in the region while I was there. And every time, there were whispers about how those farmers treated their workers like absolute trash, practically like sub humans.

      This was an area where people were already just as racist as they were religious. And even they thought that these farmers were extreme and maybe kinda asking for it.

      So yeah, one thing I can say is that it’s a lot more complicated than some evil plot against the white race.