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Why not let the Afrikaners in?(South Africa)
American Thinker ^

Posted on 02/06/2025 7:19:12 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Elon Musk seems to be at the head of a drive to allow White South Africans to immigrate to America as refugees. The South African Whites are Westerners, and the West should not abandon its people to a vindictive, hostile, government in South Africa. But can anyone doubt that this country was far more stable when the core demographic was West European?

Russia has already taken in 15,000.

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To: Cronos

**They are Africans - they have been there for 500 years and their ancestry predates the entry of Zulu peoples into south Africa. Why should they leave their ancestral lands?**

How’s your math?


41 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:42 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
They will be slaughtered in SA. We should take them, especially if they have money. Seriously, Japan could take ton of them, no problem, with their population issues.

Also, no wonder Russia is accepting them.

42 posted on 02/06/2025 8:40:34 AM PST by far sider
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To: DIRTYSECRET
well, not 500 - that was hyperbole on my part I admit.

The Boers arrived in the Cape of Good Hope to settle from 1652 -- that is 370 years.

When the Boers came, the native people were Khoi-San

Now they may look "black", but genetically they are as far away from Bantu-speaking "black Africans" as those Bantu-speakers are from us.

The Bantu-speakers like Zulus came from west Africa and they expanded when they discovered agriculture (this was completely independent of the discoveries of agriculture in the fertile crescent or in the yangtze valley)

The Bantu-speakers' agriculture was suitable for the tropics with cassava etc. - so their expansion halted at what is now the borders of south africa

the earlier Khoi-San (who had separated thousands of years earlier) were hunter-gatherers so were less dependent on the crop and the Boers came from temperate climates with temperate crops

Zulu expansion came with the adoption of european crops.

43 posted on 02/06/2025 8:51:20 AM PST by Cronos
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Use the language of the progressives.

“We need to purify the lands of the prosperous and peaceful Africans and remove whites from African lands. They will be welcomed to western white nations and the South African blacks can show us how a truly free nation, free of the curse of ‘whiteness’ can feed the African continent.”


44 posted on 02/06/2025 9:09:41 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

No more immigrants. Sorry, not sorry.


45 posted on 02/06/2025 9:14:10 AM PST by EvelynMcHale (vroom, vroom, mothertrucker)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Sorry. White South Africans were overcome by force. They need to stay where they are and fight back.

And this is one case of where US assistance (not military forces!) would be warranted.


46 posted on 02/06/2025 9:41:28 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: MinorityRepublican
That's due to culture.

I think this is likely true, but their culture is something they bring with them, and unless we have some method of training it out of them, it is a permanent part of what they are.

I have a friend that says the problem with Gaza is that they are taught to hate the Jews from the time they are born till the time they die, and the only solution is to get those kids away from their parents and break the cycle of their parents teaching them hate.

While this makes sense on the one hand, we oppose this very sort of thinking from liberals who feel they need to do that with American kids.

But I don't see a solution to people taught to behave badly because they were raised in a bad culture.

47 posted on 02/06/2025 9:56:48 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MinorityRepublican
They should not leave. Some of their ancestors have been in South Africa since 1650. Things may be bad now.

But it's quite possible they'll improve in 20 years from now.

Will they survive that long? Is there any reason to believe that what happened to Rhodesia won't happen to them?

They are already killing them.

48 posted on 02/06/2025 9:59:41 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
I think this is likely true, but their culture is something they bring with them, and unless we have some method of training it out of them, it is a permanent part of what they are.

It can be done. The Nazis and the Imperial Japanese were pretty crazy. So we waged total war with them.

It's clear that Hamas is as fanatical in Gaza and Israel is not allowed to wage total war on them because they're dependent on armed shipments from USA.

Muslims make up 20% of the population in Israel and from what I see, they are productive citizens.

49 posted on 02/06/2025 10:03:25 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DiogenesLamp
Will they survive that long? Is there any reason to believe that what happened to Rhodesia won't happen to them?

Rhodesia was a massacre. Like I've said, the government is not organized enough to pull off a "Rhodesia" at this point.

They are already killing them.

You could make the argument that Baltimore is dangerous. You're on your own if you decide to go in the city by yourself.

50 posted on 02/06/2025 10:21:36 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Muslims make up 20% of the population in Israel and from what I see, they are productive citizens.

I'm thinking Israel keeps a pretty tight rein on them. Maybe over time the trouble makers got weeded out, or perhaps many still exist within their ranks and just have not manifested themselves to Israel yet.

But let's say they have successfully integrated into Israeli society. How many generations did it take?

51 posted on 02/06/2025 10:33:15 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MinorityRepublican
Rhodesia was a massacre. Like I've said, the government is not organized enough to pull off a "Rhodesia" at this point.

Letting the unaffiliated mobs do it instead will be of scant comfort to the people who will get killed. The Government will certainly protect the mobs from retaliation by the victim's families.

You could make the argument that Baltimore is dangerous. You're on your own if you decide to go in the city by yourself.

These South Africans didn't go into "Baltimore", they were born there. Yes, anyone going to South Africa right now is a fool, but people can hardly be blamed for the situation into which they were born.

I believe I have read they have enclaves, but I have little doubt the government would use whatever force was at its disposal if these enclaves attempted to repel the mobs by force.

52 posted on 02/06/2025 10:38:47 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Cronos

I was referring to any new treaties that would save their lives


53 posted on 02/06/2025 10:54:08 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: EvelynMcHale

**No more immigrants. Sorry, not sorry.**

They lose everything I’m sure they’d be loyal conservative Americans. Just how many businesses have room for a skilled tradesman or 2? Then there are the churches who could help them settle. My choice: start with Pennsylvania.


54 posted on 02/06/2025 10:57:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It would take white South Africans about fifteen minutes to assimilate.

Can’t have that.


55 posted on 02/06/2025 11:39:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s not our problem. America first!


56 posted on 02/06/2025 11:43:26 AM PST by EvelynMcHale (vroom, vroom, mothertrucker)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I believe I have read they have enclaves, but I have little doubt the government would use whatever force was at its disposal if these enclaves attempted to repel the mobs by force.

Executive Outcomes is a private military company (PMC) founded in South Africa in 1989 by Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force. It later became part of the South African-based holding company Strategic Resource Corporation. The company was reestablished in 2020.

Seems like the South African Government is weak.

Otherwise, private military companies and security firms will be banned in South Africa. But apparently that's not the case.

57 posted on 02/06/2025 1:31:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let us hope everyone can endure until things stabilize... *IF* they stabilize.


58 posted on 02/06/2025 1:33:16 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’d be happy to have them


59 posted on 02/06/2025 1:34:53 PM PST by wardaddy
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To: nitzy

Whatever.

Go find the next article with “Israel” in it and continue your bashing.

So dull.


60 posted on 02/07/2025 6:59:59 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump’s second term exceeds my wildest expectations!)
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