NPR Discovers White Genocide Claims, Forgetting Apartheid
Trump's repeated, debunked claims about 'white genocide' among Afrikaners in South Africa—as meticulously reported by NPR—are indeed false. Critics rightly highlight the dangers posed to a country still grappling with apartheid's legacy. But what's genuinely bewildering is the media's sudden alarm over 'ethnic cleansing' rhetoric when applied to white settlers, while the historical reality of
indigenous displacement and violence that forged South Africa, and indeed, many 'settler' nations, is often consigned to abstract notions like 'apartheid' or 'conflict.' One might observe that the urgency to condemn 'genocide' claims shifts dramatically with the identity of the alleged victims. Where was this level of national media scrutiny and outrage over actual, documented acts of
state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing that established the Afrikaner presence in the first place? It appears some 'genocides' are just 'history,' while others, when politically convenient, become grounds for immediate condemnation—especially when lobbied for. The hypocrisy is, shall we say, a stark reminder of who gets to narrate history’s victims.