Posted on 08/23/2018 7:09:05 PM PDT by Ennis85
President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he unexpectedly announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the "large-scale killing" of white farmers in South Africa — a disputed claim promoted by some right-wing and white supremacist groups in the country.
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Trump's tweet was prompted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who aired a segment on his prime-time show on Wednesday condemning South African land redistribution and labeling the country's black president "a racist." Carlson, who has been accused of promoting a host of white nationalist talking points, attacked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for allegedly ignoring an issue Carlson said "should be getting worldwide attention."
"In other words, 'nothing to see here,' says Mike Pompeo's State Department," the host said.
Also on Wednesday, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones aired his own segment on the South African issue on his show Infowars.
Land redistribution and a right-wing backlash
Issues surrounding land ownership have a long history in South Africa, where black people were prohibited from owning much of the country's land for more than 80 years.
Since the end of the apartheid era and the establishment of South African democracy in 1994, the government has purchased some white-owned land and redistributed it to black citizens in an attempt to address the inequalities between the racial groups. (Today, black South Africans make up 79% of the population, but own just 9% of the country's land.)
Last year, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he supported amending the constitution in order to seize unused land without compensation, so long as the process doesn't "undermine the economy, agricultural production and food security."
Right-wing and white nationalist groups, including AfriForum, a white Afrikaner rights group with 200,000 members, have pushed back against the practice and promoted a narrative of widespread
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So white supremacists are happy Trump told the truth that whites are being murdered? So what? The question is why the media is even talking about white supremacists and not about the whites being murdered. I think you know the answer.
BI is a liberal rag.
If a foreign govt commits an act like Krystalnacht, then we should stay silent. Ty liberals.
How come this “news story” refuses to call the ANC Black supremacists, since that what its members are?
Business Insider is about as credible as CNN or PMSNBC.
Leftist, race baiting tripe.
The land the SA authorities want to seize was always there, but it wasn’t properly developed until white settlers arrived. Now it’s valuable so let’s go grab it.
Business Insider. Not surprising that it is coming out as a more leftist publication than previously known.
The ANC is run by the Communist Party of South Africa and always has been. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee, under Sen. Denton, held a major group of hearings into this very subject with two witnesses who were with the ANC (one of whom was later assassinated when a US Senator leaked his name -an didn’t suffer any punishment, like expulsion from the Committee/Senate).
The SACP and the ANC were created by KGB operatives including Joe Slovo (KGB) and his wife Ruth. Tambo, Makatini, zuma and other ANC rulers were all SACP and it is suspected that Ramaphosa is too.
The ANC plans are just like those of the failed country and former communist dictatorship of Mugabe in Zimbabwe and you saw what it did to that country.
If the reds continue on with their plans, South Africa will be in economic chaos with both the Russians and Red Chinese just waiting to get in there (on some economic issues/projects and defense issues, they have already right under the noses of Business Insider).
Putin stole Crimean land from Ukrainian whites and is redistributing it to Boer whites, all while still going about his KGB antics abetting radical (black) regimes all over Africa.
This is BS. And the MSM wonder why people hate them.
WOW! I didn't know ABC News was a right-wing white supremacist group!
"The EFF is backing the call for white farms to be handed back to the millions of black South Africans who work the land but don't own it. After years of avoiding any action, the South African Government says it will change the law so it can seize land without compensation."
And the Independent! Another well known British right-wing white supremacist group!
South Africa votes through motion that could lead to seizure of land from white farmers without compensationThis author acts like the internet doesn't exist and we cannot see outright lies.
Business Insider disguises itself as an apolitical business oriented publication.
Nothing could be further from the truth. I think it is often confused with Investors Business Daily, which is an excellent paper.
The name should be changed to Business Stuff or BS for short.
right ON!
Exactly.
Truth isn’t falsehood and White Genocide is real.
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