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"South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of
language. After all, South Africa is a country where a one-time government
passed a law (the
Natives Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents
Act of 1952) which extended rather than [abolished] the notorious pass system.
This made it compulsory for black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a
passbook. And the same government passed the
Extension of University Education
Act of 1959 which made it more, not less, difficult for black students to
register at “open” (or white) universities.
So perhaps they should not be unduly surprised that the government of the US
has imported 49 Afrikaners and labelled them as “refugees”. The claim is that
they are escaping from the persecution of Afrikaners – and white people more
broadly – in South Africa today.
The Trump administration knows perfectly well this claim is a complete
fabrication. As President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government have pointed out,
there is no evidence whatsoever that Afrikaners or white people more generally
are subject to genocide.
True, South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world. But it is
poor black South Africans – not whites – who are principal victims of such
deadly violence. Nor are Afrikaners/whites subject to persecution. Along with
all other South Africans, their human rights are protected by a constitution.
This is no mere piece of paper. Its provisions are (albeit imperfectly, and
unlike in the US these days) largely enforced by the courts.
Furthermore, genocide implies the deliberate elimination of a people on racial,
ethnic, or religious grounds. Therefore, if a genocide of whites and Afrikaners
was taking place, we might assume that their numbers would be falling. In fact
the reverse is true. The white population has continued to grow (albeit slowly)
in absolute numbers since 1994.
Worse, the characterisation of Afrikaners as refugees at a moment in time when
the people of Gaza are daily subject to a regime of death, terror, and murder
inflicted on them by the Israeli government is not merely an absurdity but a
downright insult to those genuinely subject to genocide.
So, what is really going on?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
