Posted on 08/24/2018 12:45:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
The president, who gets his intelligence briefings from Fox News, repeats a white nationalist myth about murders of white South African farmers.
Trust President Trump, following his familiar tactic of deflecting attention from yet another scandal by issuing some outrageous tweet, to come down hard on the wrong side of an issue he knows nothing about, based on no more than a slanted Fox News program. In a late-Wednesday tweet, Mr. Trump said he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to look into land seizures and the “large-scale killing of farmers” in South Africa. It was the first time he has mentioned Africa by name in a tweet as president.
His source was a grossly one-sided report by the Fox host Tucker Carlson asserting that the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was seizing land from his citizens because they are the wrong “skin color.” There have been no large-scale killings of white farmers, and Mr. Ramaphosa’s proposal to change the Constitution to allow expropriation of land without compensation has not yet passed. That said, the issue does deserve a close look.
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Yet Mr. Trump’s tweet, and the Fox show on which it was based, were bereft of any context, sympathy or understanding. They pounced, instead, on the false narratives of right-wing white South African groups claiming widespread seizures of white-owned land and a continuing “white genocide.”
In fact, the number of killings of farmers and farm workers is at a 20-year low, with 47 in the 2017-18 fiscal year, according to AgriSA, a farmers’ organization in South Africa. The numbers have been declining steadily since peaking in 1998, when 153 were killed.
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They aren’t even pretending to be anything but totalitarian globalist propaganda anymore.
The nyt, which gets its marching orders from White-hating racists, repeats a Hate-America myth about South Africa.
Trust the nyt, following its familiar tactic of deflecting attention from yet another scandal by hiring some outrageous racist, the nyt has completely suppressed the theft of property and murder of Whites by South Africans.
The NY Slimes “editorial board” must be tired from all that jumping to conclusions.
Google "south african farm murders" and click the images link. It's gruesome.
This is what you get when you hire a white-hating racist.
So is the entire American left at this point. They're gone.
Protecting Whites, I mean how vile and low can you go?
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Another day, another scandal. Trump will have had 2920 scandals by the time he leaves office in January 2025.
“Only” 47 killed in the 2017-18 fiscal year. What’s the problem?
The same NYT that had Walter Duranty write a series of monstrous lies about how the Soviet communists were not murdering millions - by starving them - in the Ukraine, 32-33. For which he won a Pulitzer, which has never been rescinded.
So....in essence, genocide of whites in S.A. is okie dokie, yes, NYT?
Can you imagine the hysterics in the NY Times if this was said about ANY other nation on earth?
The dreadfully vile NYT editorial board has amnesia over Zimbabwe’s purge and famine. They are simply no good.
So NY Times where you being “vile racists” on 03-15-2018?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/world/australia/south-africa-white-farmers-peter-dutton.html
Australian Official Calls for Emergency Visas for White South African Farmers
It sounds like the Slimes raised Walter Duranty from the dead and sent him to South Africa for first hand reports.
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