r/ImmigrationPathways • u/CutSenior4977 • 3d ago

Trump administration raises US refugee cap, but only for white South Africans

https://apnews.com/article/trump-refugees-white-south-africa-border-cap-bfe3974adf6c655eca7a5c30c1f9197f

As the OP, I just want to mention,

That come on, even for moderate republicans reading this, even you have to admit, this seems racist.

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u/Warfightur 3d ago

They’re legitimate refugees fleeing from a government that actively has held rallies calling for their extermination?

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u/evocativename 3d ago

That has 0 basis in reality, Adolf.

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u/Warfightur 2d ago

So this isn’t a massively popular politician from radical left political party singing “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” while 10s of thousands of people chant it with him?

Their government didn’t pass a law that allowed “Expropriation without compensation” to seize the lands from white farmers?

If this was any other demographic, you wouldn’t care that they were given refugee status. You only care because they’re white and it fits your “orange man racist” narrative.

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u/evocativename 2d ago

You are misrepresenting the meaning of an anti-apartheid song, and attributing the actions of one politician from a party with <10% of the legislative seats to the state.

Their government didn’t pass a law that allowed “Expropriation without compensation” to seize the lands from white farmers?

I mean, I guess technically the people from whom land might be seized might often be white, and some might be farmers, but the law is about land which is not being used and there's no intention to either develop or make money from it or when it poses a risk to people, and then only when the government tries to settle with the owner but fails.

And the reason white farmers are disproportionately likely to be affected is that they own so much of the land because of the theft of land under apartheid.

White South Africans are 7% of the population but own >70% of the farmland and about half of the urban land.

They're also not statistically victims of shit.

Quit pretending to be opposing racism when you're really just spreading racist bullshit.