The article discusses Tucker Carlson's interview with Ernst Roets, a South African right-wing activist, in which they explore the concept of 'white genocide' in South Africa. Carlson promotes the narrative that the South African government is targeting white minorities, a claim echoed by other right-wing figures, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump. This conversation is framed as part of a broader trend of misinformation circulating among the MAGA right, despite evidence from crime statistics and expert viewpoints that dispute these notions of persecution and genocide.
The idea that South Africa's government is racist and committing a genocide against the country's white minority is of course not new. For many years, white activists, including US President Donald Trump's billionaire special adviser Elon Musk, have alleged that South Africa's government is trying to rid the country of its white minorities.
Carlson, ever the debauched provocateur, commenced the lengthy conversation with the ludicrous claim that South Africa appears to be collapsing and that the government is essentially genocidally racist.
Of course, not only crime statistics but also many white South Africans themselves, all respected international and local NGOs, and experts on genocide laugh in the face of this white genocide myth.
On February 7, Trump announced his decision to cut off aid to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners over such concerns... a month later, he upgraded this offer and opened up an expedited path to citizenship for this allegedly persecuted and threatened minority.
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