


Media pundits are unreasonably angry about the 60 white South Africans President Donald Trump brought to the United States on Monday as refugees.
They claim Trump is a hypocrite to do so after pausing other refugee programs — but that’s not the real reason they’re mad.
The truth is they’re so steeped in a worldview of oppression and victimhood that it’s impossible for them to believe white people could ever be on the receiving end of racial hate.
CNN pundit Ashley Allison said the Afrikaners should go back to “Germany” if they don’t like South Africa’s new law allowing its government to expropriate white owners’ land without compensation.
There’s no white “genocide” in South Africa, she argued, so there’s no reason for America to offer them safe haven.
NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor said violence in South Africa “is affecting everybody of every single race” — unwittingly repurposing the “all lives matter” contention heard during 2020’s “summer of love.”
“The president, in my view has not hidden his racism behind a bushel,” said MSNBC’s Donna Edwards, unable to imagine white people as victims.
“The Trump administration . . . certainly is a white nationalist project,” Eddie Glaude claimed on another MSNBC panel.
The leftist sages cannot envision a reality in which white people can need a refuge from political persecution.
To them, only Trump’s anti-black racism can be the impetus for him to extend such aid.
That’s because their oppressor/victim worldview casts everyone as either one or the other, with race as the immutable factor determining who’s who.
Every white person is an evil oppressor, they believe, out to keep their perpetual victims — inherently good black or brown people — down.
For those who subscribe to this moral framework, there’s no such thing as personal guilt, innocence or even agency.
It doesn’t matter who is at fault; race tells the entire story.
So to them, white people always take the oppressor’s role — even in a nation where they’re in the minority and subjected to violence.
In January, the South African government enacted the Expropriation Act, which — not for the first time — seeks to address “land inequality” by taking land now belonging to white people and giving it to black people who lost control of it decades ago.
When apartheid ended in 1994, black South Africans were offered reparations in the form of either land or cash.
Most took the cash, so the land inequality that existed at the time continued.
Violence against white farmers in South Africa is well documented: 2023 saw 300 such attacks, including 50 murders.
When Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighter party, chanted the song “Kill the Boer!” at a big Johannesburg rally in 2023, American media outlets downplayed it.
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“The song should not be taken as a literal call to violence,” The New York Times instructed us.
For talking heads to say, with a straight face, that there’s no racial hatred against white people in South Africa means they must believe white people can never be victims of racial hate.
Allison claims to empathize with races that are not her own, but her arguments this week show this does not apply to white people.
Alcindor denounced the “All Lives Matter” phrase as racist during the “Black Lives Matter” moment, only to turn around now and use the same idea to rationalize violence against white South Africans.
Edwards and Glaude have cried racism in response to all of Trump’s actions, from election season to today.
Yet to apply those biases to the plight of the newly admitted refugees means they must blind themselves to facts.
Afrikaner Ernst Roets has recounted many instances of race-based violence against white people in his native country.
He was at church one Sunday, he told Human Events Daily, when the service was interrupted by an announcement that a parishioner’s wife, a member of a white farm family, had been murdered at home, her throat slit.
Roets says the violence has affected nearly all of the 5 million white South Africans who remain in the country — 7.5% of the population, descendants of the Dutch farmers who came to colonize the land over 400 years ago.
Partisan pundits won’t believe that evidence, no matter how much of it they’re shown.
Instead they lean into the safety of their oppression/victim convictions to close their eyes to uncomfortable truths.
Because if they ever began to question the framework that supports their moral perspective, they’d find within themselves the very racism they think they see in others.
Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.