The Left Freaks Out As Trump Accepts White Refugees

Every day, a new, stupid controversy is pushed by the Left.

Now, it’s the fact that the Trump administration has decided to grant some white South Africans refugee status.

Why? Because the government in South Africa discriminates against white South Africans.

The New York Times reported:

Dozens of white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday on a chartered jet after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which has made it virtually impossible for any other refugees to seek safe haven in America.

This, of course, is the problem that the Left and the media are having: Why do these refugees get in when, say, Afghan refugees are not getting in? 

The Times continues:

The arrival represents a drastic reversal in the United States’ refugee policies, which have long focused on helping people fleeing war, famine and genocide. The South Africans say they have been discriminated against, denied job opportunities and have been subject to violence because of their race — though the specifics of their cases are unclear.

President Trump, referring to a spate of murders of farmers in South Africa, said farmers are being killed. People who own land in South Africa are disproportionately white compared to the surrounding population, which means that many of the farmers who are being killed are white. 

Trump said, “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”

To understand why the United States is bringing Afrikaners to the United States, we actually have to know a little bit of the history. So Afrikaners, also known as Boers, have been in South Africa since 1652. That’s when the Dutch East India Company established a station at the Cape of Good Hope. For legitimately 350 years, there have been white people in South Africa. Originally, the Afrikaners were Dutch. Eventually, they were joined by both German and French citizens. 

The British Empire came in the early 19th century to establish its own colonies in South Africa. Eventually this led to conflict. The British expanded their reach. The Boers made their way inland because they didn’t actually want to be under the edicts of the British Empire. Eventually, there were some conflicts. The biggest conflict was the Second Boer War. That was because the Afrikaners were in an area called the Transvaal, a region very heavy with gold.

The finding of gold in the Transvaal essentially incentivized the British Empire to try and expand its holdings in South Africa, leading to the Second Boer War that eventually ended with the British Empire victorious. 

In 1948, the National Party came to power and adopted a formal regime of apartheid. By 1950, the races were being categorized by law with special privileges for whites as opposed to blacks. Black people had no say in the government. In 1960, the so-called Sharpeville Massacre ended with the death of 69 anti-apartheid protesters. Nelson Mandela declared the end of nonviolent resistance and began engaging in violent activities directed against the government. He was arrested in 1962, sentenced to life imprisonment, and would end up spending nearly three decades in prison. 

Over time, international pressure led to the eventual end of apartheid, with the ban on the African National Congress, which was Mandela’s party, ending in 1990. Mandela was freed from prison that same year. He was eventually inaugurated as President of South Africa.

According to the media, that’s where the story basically ends, because we’re not supposed to talk about anything that happened after the end of apartheid. Everything was just hunky-dory after that.

Two things can be true at once: 1) apartheid was an evil system, but 2) lots of bad things have happened after apartheid. 

One of the dumb ways to cover politics is to suggest that because a bad thing is happening in one direction, no bad things have ever happened in the other direction, or will ever happen in the other direction.

Since the end of apartheid, there has been a radical upsurge in the amount of racial discrimination against whites. Today, black Africans represent about 81.4% of the population of South Africa. Colored, which is a reference in South Africa to people of mixed race ethnicity, represent 8.2%; whites represent 7.3%. That is a massive change since 1904, when 67.3% of the population was Black African, but fully a fifth, 21.6%, was white.

By 1996, those percentages had shifted dramatically. Suddenly, 77% of the South African population was Black African, as opposed to 11% white. And today, as the white population has dropped dramatically, the government has increasingly started to pass laws that are directed against whites in South Africa.

This year, the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, signed a bill into law allowing land seizures by the state without compensation.

The great fear in South Africa is that it will do the same thing that Robert Mugabe did in Zimbabwe. Mugabe expropriated all land from whites and then targeted them. Ramaphosa can simply say, “It’s in the public interest to rejigger land ownership in South Africa. We are now taking all the land of white people in South Africa in response to South African apartheid.”

The hunky dory version of South African history says that everybody got together and gave a big group hug after the end of apartheid, but that is actually not what happened. 

The ruling African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, has been in charge of the country since 1994. In 2017, Jacob Zuma, the corrupt former president of the country from 2009 to 2018, adopted ANC policy that included, “fundamental change in the structures, systems, institutions and patterns of ownership and control of the economy in favor of all South Africans, especially the poor.” That was coded language for “we’re going to completely redo all the structures on a racialized basis.” The ANC is a deeply corrupt party and is closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party, from which it receives money. They’re also closely tied to Vladimir Putin’s Russia as well as Iran.

Julius Malema, the head of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which is a radical party in South Africa, has led an enormous crowd in a stadium to chant, “Kill the Boer!” which is the language of genocide. A bunch of communists shouted to kill the Boer. Never in the history of humanity have we ever seen communists attempt to exterminate an entire class of people, except for pretty much every communist regime everywhere. 

You might see why South Africans who are white feel under threat.

Why is it a big deal that Afrikaners are being granted refugee status to come to the United States? Because the Left is utterly puzzled at the idea that white people can ever be refugees. They’re absolutely puzzled by the idea that has been expressed by State Department deputy Chris Landale that Afrikaners might have an easier time assimilating in the United States than, say, Afghan refugees.

Why is it that they can assimilate easily into our country? It isn’t about the fact that they are white. They all speak English. They are, by and large, capitalists. They agree with fundamental constitutional rights that are being violated in South Africa. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin, and everything to do with the ideas that they hold, and the cultural hallmarks that they bear in common with the United States. 

That may not hold true for Afghan refugees, where you literally have no idea what their ideas are. They don’t speak English. There are a lot of things culturally that they do not have in common with Americans, up to and including a belief in constitutional rights. Are we going to just pretend that all potential immigrants to the United States have an equivalent level of assimilative capability? That’s obviously untrue.

Since the 1960s, there has been an idea promulgated that America bears some sort of bizarre blood guilt for its success, and, therefore, bears an obligation to import people from all over the world, from these countries that actually do not share a cultural history with the Anglo-American sphere.

Somehow America owes that to the rest of the world, because America’s only successful through some form of exploitation, according to that view, which also holds that there needs to be reparative justice in South Africa because whites used to harm blacks. 

America somehow owes it to the rest of the world to let anybody in. And if you say that that’s not true, then you’re undermining the Left’s perception of Americanism.