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Africa Subsaharan
South Africa's Afriforum and Trump's kiss of death
2018-08-30
[Aljazeera] Donald Trump's comments referring to "large scale killings" of white farmers in South Africa last week may have mobilised the lunatic fringe in America and served the US president's narrow racist interests, but in South Africa, they backfired for the organisation that claims it "played a role" in his tweet.

Trump is held in such low regard among reasonable people outside the US that his endorsement signalled a setback for Afriforum, the fascist organisation that toured the US and the UK earlier this year in a bid to call attention to what it calls "the plight" of white farmers.

Afriforum website found here.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Turn in your weapons and die on your knees
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-30 18:41  

#4  Makes a person wonder about every other world leader who had said nothing.

First time I heard of a home having a 'safe room' or 'panic room' was about some white SA farmers who made it to their room yet were still captured and mutilated; the room got breached somehow. This was some fifteen years ago. That is when I figured the attacks were not just about looting.

As I understand it, this petition was the last best chance to stop things from going south fast. Hope it sticks.

Whites are racist - Whites deserve violence - turn in your firearms - racism is against the law - the government owns your property. Pretty easy to see where this was going.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-08-30 18:16  

#3  The whole of "Progressive Humanity" against Afriforum, while Trump and his deplorables are for - good or bad for Afriforum?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-30 11:25  

#2  ...among reasonable people
Code words for: we were against it anyway and this is a handy excuse.
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-30 10:50  

#1  A snippet from a Forum article by Ernst Roets entitled 'The truth about apartheid, crimes against humanity and the use of the old flag.'

There is a new tyranny in South Africa. It is a tyranny of political correctness, a tyranny of distorted political thinking. We are dictated what our political thinking should be and if we do not comply, we are accused of evil conspiracy and oppression. The problem is that this very prescribed political ideology is nothing but a house of cards. It is an ideology that was not only built on a distortion of the past, but which depends on that distortion for its continued existence. It is an ideology that can be destroyed by common facts. Therefore, for this ideology to survive, it became necessary that the facts are swept under the carpet and that all kinds of fabrications of the past are being forced down our throats. If we resist, we will be denounced as apartheid apologists. However, to be falsely denounced as an apartheid apologist – despite our own unambiguous criticism of apartheid – is better than subservience to a false political ideology.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-30 06:24  

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