Summary

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected claims by Trump and Elon Musk that whites face persecution or genocide in South Africa, calling it a “completely false narrative.”

Musk reignited the controversy by citing a rally where a far-left party chanted “Kill the Boer,” which courts previously ruled as protected speech.

Trump issued an executive order cutting US funding to South Africa and offering Afrikaners refugee status.

Ramaphosa noted that violent crime affects all races equally and condemned misinformation surrounding white farmers’ safety.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Read up on Orania. The South-African government doesn’t harass those Afrikaners trying to have their own little closed community.

    And honestly, I think that approach is the best. If right wing people want to self-segregate in gate communities without harming anyone, then I think that’s the least bad option.

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      3 days ago

      The problem is that they turn into echo chambers and hate incubators. They need to be integrated with the rest of society.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      If right wing people want to self-segregate in gate communities without harming anyone, then I think that’s the least bad option.

      We should take these groups from every major nation and ship them out to some island in the middle of the Pacific or some shit, and don’t allow commerce in or out. Let them deal with it themselves.

      Or you know what, allow commerce so they can’t just blame that for their inevitable failure.

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          Sounds like the a few of the Marshall Islands might be a good fit. The US already displaced a bunch of the original inhabitants. Let’s not talk about why, and just ignore the rapid ticking sound coming from the box in the corner. Welcome home!