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> Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discred
by deogeo 7y ago
> Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discredited genocide.
They source the 'widely discredited' claim to africacheck.org. Which tries to discredit genocidewatch.net's placement of South Africa at stage 6 of 10 of genocide [1] (stage 6 is polarization, 7 is preparation, 8 is persecution, and 9 is extermination. 10 is denial). With prominent politicians such as Julius Malema (leader of EFF, which has 10% voter support [2]) saying "We [the EFF] are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now", and singing "shoot the boer", and then receiving support by the ANC (largest party, with 57% of the vote) to avoid any legal repercussions [4], it takes some very motivated reasoning to conclude polarization is not taking place.
The Guardian also saw fit to include vivid testimony of a black couple harassed by whites. Yet whites were limited to a single, tepid line about 'warzones', without any mention of what happens in warzones. How different an impression would the article make, if it were instead balanced with a vivid retelling of an incident such as a mother shot and raped in front of her children [5]. With a murder rate 7x that of the US [6], I'm certain they could have found something more visceral, had they wanted to.
Instead, the Guardian does its best to make white people fleeing to a place of their own look as sinister as possible.
[1] https://africacheck.org/spot-check/claims-white-genocide-south-africa-unsupported/ https://africacheck.org/spot-check/claims-white-genocide-sou...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters#Election_results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters#Elec...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress#Election_results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress#Elec...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress#Racism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress#Raci...
[5] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9310908/farmers-wife-shot-and-raped-in-front-children-south-africa/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9310908/farmers-wife-shot-and-...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...