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. Ramaphosas 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. Trumps 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Where does all this violent rhetoric come from? What happened to “Give Peace a chance?”
the nyt is not worthy of my parakeets crapping on their yellow rag. What absolute losers. What dishonest dregs. What seditionist traitors.
Why not just make it “Kill the Farmers and Kill Yourselves with Starvation!” Ignorance is intolerance. or is it Intolerance is ignorance. Probably both.
That’s not the NYTimes author.
That’s Laura Southern who is on the side of good and who has done first hand reporting from South Africa regarding what the whites there now face.
Truth form the same editorial board that hid the Holocaust and denied the Holodomor. Nonsense! The Slime has no shame, no integrity—but plenty of chutzpah.
lauren is a brave woman
Thank you for your post— have been keeping up with
suidlanders.org, and others including friends still trying to work, corporate in S.A.
Your knowledge of the country, and understanding of “how we got here” is critical.
Several reports that even VICE news can’t “clean up” . Lauren Southern has been there. A documentary== “Farmlands”. This is no joke- and the country will starve... then turn to their marxist pals in the UN and expect us all to ship them food— to their new marxist aristo grifters.
The videos on youtube alone- are of the most appalling females— huge women with aggressive attitude, like Winnie Mandela all over again.
For additional info, which you probably already know, there is Stefan Molyneux’s youtube “The Truth about Nelson Mandela”.... a communist from the beginning— no dressing any of that up. Mugabe’s “hero”.
Well.....except this one:
Oh, and these......
The ones that the leftist-run “Africheck” organization also tries to explain away as not being from reliable evidence.
(There have been no large-scale killings of white farmers)
Seriously? Small-scale killings are ok, you weasels?
Isn’t that the same NY Times editorial board who just hired an open racist against white people? Why the hell are we going to trust that editorial board KNOWING that they hate white people, including white South Africans?
And in another NY Times article, Times reporter in the USSR Walter Duranty, writes from government sources that the reported “Famine’ in the Ukraine is Imperialist , Capitalist propaganda to defame the glorious “People’s Soviet Republic.
Camarade Stalin has promised to “silence” the critics of the People’s Revolution and the false claims of the White Russian provocateurs.
How pathetic - "Trump claims farmers are being murdered when there's only a third as many being murdered as there used to be 20 years ago - how dare he say that..."
Earlier today I was reading a “glamor” article about Princess Charlene of Monaco, lovely lady. The article mentioned how she was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and that her parents moved to South Africa, where they now live. Which made me wonder, “How much longer will her parents be living in South Africa?”
How would the Slimes handle the murder of 47 reporters?
The Lefts Mandela Mythology is the truly vile ploy.
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