The far-left Mainstream Media collapsed in hysterics yesterday when the first Afrikaner refugees from South Africa landed in the United States.
The Fourth Estate’s worthies said the threatened white South Africans don’t deserve refugee status, despite calls for their murder from a top politician in the once-safe country. President Trump’s admission of the refugees proves that his administration has a “white nationalist project,” one commentator said, while a former high-level State Department official in the Obama administration called Trump’s invitation “moral ugliness” because the refugees are white.
Worse still, they are descendants of white supremacists and can leave the country if they don’t like it.
Why They’re Here
As The New American reported yesterday, Trump invited the refugees in an executive order, “Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa.”
The order cited a law in South Africa that permits the expropriation of land from white farmers, and told officials to “prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
“Farmers are being killed,” Trump told reporters, The New York Times reported. “They happen to be white. Whether they are white or Black makes no difference to me. White farmers are being brutally killed and the land is being confiscated in South Africa.”
Though the far-left media dispute Trump’s claims, some 4,000 farm attacks have left more than 800 dead since 2010.
Thus did 59 Afrikaners — the descendants of 17th-century Dutch settlers who landed at Table Bay on the Cape of Good Hope — arrive here yesterday.
And that infuriated the hate-Trump far-left.
The Episcopal Church immediately announced that it would refuse to help resettle them.
The Commentary
On CNN former Biden-Obama aide Ashley Allison said if the Afrikaners don’t like discrimination, they can leave the country. But not for the United States, of course.
“The people who are native to that land deserve their rightful land back” but “that is not what the Afrikaners actually want to have happen, which are the white Africans,” she said:
And so who are not originally from Africa, who colonized South Africa.… And so that is what they are saying is discrimination. Now if the constitution in South Africa is discriminatory, they have their checks and balances in that land just like we do.… So if the Afrikaners don’t actually like the land they can leave that country.… [T]hey can actually leave and even go to where their native land is, which is probably Germany?
“Their native land” is Holland, but no need for a former Harvard fellow to get that right.
Aside from the geographical ignorance, we learned from Rick Stengel, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, that inviting white refugees here is a moral outrage.
“It’s so deeply and morally wrong-headed and repulsive,” he said on MSNBC:
These are the descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in human history — apartheid. They’re not directly responsible for it, but it was a system that actually moved black people off of the arable land. So they inherited the land that black people had to give up. It was called forced removal, something called a Bantustan policy, where they moved black people out of the cities and farmlands into these remote areas with non-arable land.
But worse than that, the Afrikaners are now the “darling” of “right-wing white supremacist movements” and comparable to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
“They’re held up as these white Christians who are being dispossessed of their land,” Stengel complained.
Many undoubtedly are “white Christians who are being dispossessed of their land.” That aside, Stengel continued, “there’s no injustice here.” As well, the refugees are “taking place away from refugees who are really being crushed by authoritarian and military governments.”
Trump calling what’s happening to the Afrikaners “genocide” is “one of the worst lies I’ve ever heard him say,” which means “it’s just a farce, and a sham and a moral ugliness.”
After Stengel ridiculed the Afrikaners, Princeton Professor Eddie Claude complained that the Trump administration is “a white nationalist project.”
“We need to understand the way in which Great Replacement Theory is driving this,” he continued:
There’s a sense in which the immigration policy is all about demographic shifts. There’s a sense around the assault on voting rights and civil rights, all about who will have the decision-making power to determine who will run the country. And here, this idea that the republic must remain a white nation is evidenced in this move, which is so explicit that it cannot be denied. And so when we don’t describe it for what it is, we become in an ironic way complicit in what they’re doing. It’s a white nationalist agenda.
“Kill the Boer”
The facts about South Africa are rather more chilling than the anti-Afrikaner chorus let on.
Julius Malema, leader of South Africa’s communist Economic Freedom Fighters, has outright called for the slaughter of Afrikaners. At an EFF rally, he led a crowd in a chant of “Shoot to kill … Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer.”
“We must never be scared to kill,” he says. “A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of the revolutionary act.”
Asked about his murderous comments, Malema offered this:
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. I’m saying to you, we have not called for the killing of white people, at least for now.… I can’t guarantee the future.
How many Afrikaner farmers have been murdered is unclear. Media reports vary.
An account in The Spectator reported “more than 300 farm attacks and 50 murders” of whites in 2022:
A particularly horrific incident in Mpumalanga, in the east of the country, happened in July: 79-year-old farmer Theo Bekker was bludgeoned over the head with an iron bar. His throat was slit and he bled to death. Bekker’s wife, Marlinda, was tied up and had a bag pulled over her head. Even when victims survive — as Marlinda did — the level of violence in these attacks can be ferocious. Torture and rape are common. Afrikaans Bibles have been left open on dismembered bodies.
Whatever the number, one wonders how many must be murdered before the far-left admits they are genuine refugees.
