Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they’re amping up the white S. African refugee program even more. As a reminder, the refugee program for anyone else has been almost completely shut down.

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Sounds like they’re amping up the white S. African refugee program even more. As a reminder, the refugee program for anyone else has been almost completely shut down.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a good plan. Time for the rest of the world needs to step up. 7,500 sounds like a fair share for the US to take on.

And I’m not seeing where the lying news is getting that they will all be white South Africans. Sure, some will be, but that is simply because white South Africans are facing violence, racism, and discrimination in South Africa.

It’s in all the major new sources, including fox. Does fox lie as well? The notice in the federal register “made no mention of any other specific groups to be admitted besides the white South Africans, known also as Afrikaners.”

If you think that white South Africans, who control 70 percent of the land in South Africa, are victims of some kind, then you’re either not very bright or not well educated.

https://fox8.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-administration-limits-number-of-refugees-to-7500-and-theyre-mostly-white-south-africans/

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There are two main groups of whites in SA. One is the descendants of the Dutch (and some other) who came centuries ago to farm and supply ships. The other are Brits. Apparently older generations continued to have hostility towards each other (going back to the British-Boer conflicts of the 19th century and I believe the Brits seeing the Boers as ignorant rubes and the Boers seeing the Brits as snobs) but not so much now. One draw is unemployment among whites in SA is about double the US (unemployment among blacks is 4x as high as for whites). On reddit the question was debated whether you have to be a farmer, which would tend to mean Afrikaner as opposed to Brit descent.

Coloured are also a minority, only slightly higher percentage than the whites, do they get consideration?

Anonymous wrote:I found a reddit r/askSouthAfrica (I think) and looked to see what they had to say about Afrikaner refugees. This was 6 months ago but there's plenty of snark. This American Life this weekend had an episode about this British white woman in South Africa who started organizing because you can be a refugee 1) without leaving your nice suburban home 2) you can arrange to have your pension paid 3)lower unemployment rate in the US so her son will have a better shot of getting a job.

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The main Tannie of the first group is from Fish Hoek. Farming hard in her 120square metre fully paid up plot with 4 bedroom home with the lovely rose bushes om die heining. Eats out every 3 nights at Barracudas restaurant on the beachfront and watches all the Bok games at the Vic at Fish Hoek circle. Ask me - because I know. She suffered some HECTIC persecution here... Mostly having to drink Tall Horse wine - that stuff is harsh.
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Ha, those folks are really going to regret coming to the United States.

I found a reddit r/askSouthAfrica (I think) and looked to see what they had to say about Afrikaner refugees. This was 6 months ago but there's plenty of snark. This American Life this weekend had an episode about this British white woman in South Africa who started organizing because you can be a refugee 1) without leaving your nice suburban home 2) you can arrange to have your pension paid 3)lower unemployment rate in the US so her son will have a better shot of getting a job.

sample from Reddit
The main Tannie of the first group is from Fish Hoek. Farming hard in her 120square metre fully paid up plot with 4 bedroom home with the lovely rose bushes om die heining. Eats out every 3 nights at Barracudas restaurant on the beachfront and watches all the Bok games at the Vic at Fish Hoek circle. Ask me - because I know. She suffered some HECTIC persecution here... Mostly having to drink Tall Horse wine - that stuff is harsh.

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Anonymous wrote:If Democrats are determined to make it difficult to deport people who are let in, including resistance judges ignoring the law, then it makes sense to not let in many people in the first place.

It’s not about the number of refugees to accepted, it’s about the fact that they’re planning to let in mostly whites, and specifically white Afrikaners from South Africa. They’re either trolling Dems because they know they’re not going to get a lot of takers from South Africa anyway, or they’re showing their white nationalist colors.

If Democrats are determined to make it difficult to deport people who are let in, including resistance judges ignoring the law, then it makes sense to not let in many people in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a good plan. Time for the rest of the world needs to step up. 7,500 sounds like a fair share for the US to take on.

And I’m not seeing where the lying news is getting that they will all be white South Africans. Sure, some will be, but that is simply because white South Africans are facing violence, racism, and discrimination in South Africa.

It’s in all the major new sources, including fox. Does fox lie as well? The notice in the federal register “made no mention of any other specific groups to be admitted besides the white South Africans, known also as Afrikaners.”

If you think that white South Africans, who control 70 percent of the land in South Africa, are victims of some kind, then you’re either not very bright or not well educated.

https://fox8.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-administration-limits-number-of-refugees-to-7500-and-theyre-mostly-white-south-africans/

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The simple fact is (but maybe not simple enough for MAGA) is that South Africa is the only country that Trump named as being eligible for refugee status.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a good plan. Time for the rest of the world needs to step up. 7,500 sounds like a fair share for the US to take on.

And I’m not seeing where the lying news is getting that they will all be white South Africans. Sure, some will be, but that is simply because white South Africans are facing violence, racism, and discrimination in South Africa.

This article was produced by Bari Weiss' CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-refugee-cap-afrikaners-south-africa/

To be clear, no news outlet has claimed that the new quota will "all be white South Africans" - only you appear to claim that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what European groups this policy has in mind who would be interested in coming here as “refugees.” Why would someone give up basic benefits that are available to most Europeans but not to all Americans—such as universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, free or subsidized post-secondary education, access to 1st trimester abortion in a way that doesn’t treat it as a crime, subsidized childcare, and more than 10 days of PTO per year?

Britain is arresting 30 people a day for tweets expressing unpopular opinions.

I would trade having universal health care and no assault weapons for expressing my opinions on social media at any point.