Posted on 08/26/2018 6:07:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews”
— President Trump, in a tweet, Aug. 22, 2018
It’s not the first time a segment on Fox News gets the president tweeting. But it’s the first time Trump claims South African farmers are being mass-murdered.
This myth was fueled by white supremacists for years before it surfaced in a presidential tweet.
More than two decades after the end of apartheid, South African farmland owners remain a predominantly white group. Fringe groups in South Africa and the United States say these white farmers are targeted and killed at disproportionately high rates. There’s no evidence for this claim, experts say, but it feeds the white-supremacist agenda by stoking racial resentment and division.
Trump made two claims about South Africa in his tweet: that the government is seizing land from white farmers and that a “large scale killing of farmers” is underway.
The president’s first claim about land seizures has some merit but is mostly false. Trump’s second claim, that South African farmers are being killed on a “large scale,” is a fiction not supported by data.
We have no clue how this myth about farmers being killed ended up on the president’s Twitter feed. It didn’t come up on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News show Trump referenced in his tweet. But it has been swishing in the alt-right and white-nationalist ether for years. The Fox News segment may have jogged Trump’s memory about something he came across previously.
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“Closely study” is another opportunity to label the President a racist. He reportedly gets his info from neo-Nazis which makes it totally invalid even if it is true. Things like this are easy to ignore. The beauty of Trump is that when he opens his mouth the subject cannot be ignored. 85 years ago the Ukrainian genocide could be ignored which allowed FDR to recognize the Soviet Union. If they had a Trump twitterer in those days the history of the world would be different. White are not only being murdered. They are often murdered in the most gruesome way. The Deep State Media is only destroying what remains of their credibility (if any) with stories like this.
That is the inevitable end result of Whites being relentlessly portrayed as evil oppressors by schools, the entertainment industry, and the Fake News Media.
If Whites anywhere on Planet Earth were doing the same to Blacks, the Post would not only be taking a very different stance, they’d be screaming it to the skies and calling loudly for international action.
“.....closely study...……..”...…
As I read that statement, where does it say that is indeed “fact”? “Closely study” suggests to investigate or am I missing something?
You're right - the Post is lying... or 'misrepresenting'... which is the SAME thing anyhow... a pox on the Washington Post...
Yes, I just found out that 2 eminent botanists who collected seeds of exotic plants in South Africa and made them available through their South African nursery online were kidnapped and murdered back in April, by a couple of SA ISIS-linked murderers. They dumped the bodies of the husband and wife botanists, in their own sleeping bags, into a crocodile-infested river, in the hopes that the crocs would clean up their evidence. Despite the danger involved in retrieval of the bodies, they were removed from the river and the murderers were identified and captured. These 2 elderly botanists were stalked like prey, beaten, and kidnapped, before being tossed into the river. How's that for gruesome? And unnecessary?
It's almost laughable how they hide their statement behind some unnamed experts's claims... pathetic.
The media is embarrassing. Newsweak!
Maybe the WaPo should send one of its ace reporters over to roam the South Africa countryside for a few weeks to get the real inside story - any volunteers?.....
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