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But for #white farmers who remain in #SouthAfrica & aspire to keep making a living from the land, the #tariffs due to come into effect on Aug 1 are an assault on those ambitions.

"It doesn't make sense to us to welcome South African farmers in America & then the rest that stays behind...to punish them," said Krisjan Mouton, a 6th-generation farmer in Western Cape province's citrus heartland.

Trump's threatened 30% #tariff on #SouthAfrica exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally & controversially championed: white farmers.
Citing false claims that #white South Africans are being persecuted, #Trump has cut aid to the country, publicly berated its president in the Oval Office & invited #Afrikaners - descendants of early European settlers - to come to the #US as *#refugees*.

#PerfomativePolitics #stunt #racism #idiocracy #geopolitics
reuters.com/world/africa/us-ta

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"This heresy [of Christian nationalism] holds that, in the age after the Easter resurrection of Christ, God blesses chosen nations with covenants and bestows privileges upon certain persons on the bases of ethnicity and race. ...

Contrary to what I believed for the past three decades, the heart of Christian nationalism still beats in 2025. And the powers it animates today are far greater than the powers it animated in 1995."

#Trump #Afrikaners #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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Writing as a South African native, Gideon Strauss says that he had thought the back of (white) Christian nationalism had been broken when white supremacist Afrikaners had to accept the full humanity and rights of their black fellow citizens.

But he was wrong. Trump has revived and exploited white Christian nationalism and is making it a potent force in the world today again:

#Trump #Afrikaners #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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instituteforchristianstudies.s

Institute for Christian Studies · The Heresy of Christian NationalismBy Gideon Strauss

"What Trump is doing goes far beyond a publicity stunt designed to humiliate the president of South Africa. We cannot be naive about and should not participate in the sinister, counter-historical master narrative the Trump administration is weaving: that 'dead white people,' killed by Black and brown people, are the world’s most pressing problem."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Afrikaners #disinformation #lies

whitetoolong.net/p/the-episcop

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones · The Episcopal Church Refuses to Help Trump Make Apartheid Great AgainBy Robert P. Jones

#andyborowitz #borowitzrepot #trump #afrikaners

“ For his part, Trump took pride in standing up for “the horribly oppressed white South Africans,” noting, “These poor farmers can’t enjoy white supremacy in their own country, so they have to move here for it.”

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz

The Borowitz Report · South African President’s Approval Rating Expected to Soar After Trump Acts Like a DickBy Andy Borowitz
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…Despite his conciliatory nature, however, even #Ramaphosa wasn't able to hide his
frustration after 59 #white #Afrikaans South Africans who were granted *#refugee* status by the #Trump admin arrived in the #US last week.

Ramaphosa said given that there is no persecution of the minority group, the #Afrikaners who left for the US were simply white people who didn't want to live under #Black majority rule.

Trump invited the South African President to the White House solely to spread racist disinformation about South Africa. Elon Musk, on the other hand, sought to make Afrikaner Victimhood the central theme of the discussion. However, it’s important to recognize that they are not victims; instead, they are the oppressors who benefited from apartheid. The victims are indigenous South Africans who were oppressed by the Afrikaners. #uspol #afrikaners #southafrica #sa

>>There is no ongoing genocide occurring in South Africa. And while the government did enact a law last year allowing for the confiscation of land without compensation, no property has been seized under its authority.<<

#SouthAfrica #USPol #Afrikaners #Immigration #Refugees #PeterGattuso #TheDispatch #FactCheck
thedispatch.com/article/trump-

The Dispatch · Assessing Trump’s Claims About Genocide and Land Confiscation in South AfricaBy Peter Gattuso