The Trump administration’s support for these claims, while stopping other new refugee arrivals, has inflamed uncomfortable conversations about how far racial reconciliation still has to go, three decades after the end of white minority rule.

The US president’s offer was a “godsend”, said Kyle, now a salesman working remotely for an overseas company: “I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.”

White Afrikaner governments racially segregated every aspect of life from relationships to where people were allowed to live during apartheid, repressing South Africa’s Black majority while keeping the white minority safe and much better off.

South Africa remains deeply unequal, more than 30 years since the system ended. The black South African unemployment rate is 46.1%, for example, compared with 9.2% for white people.

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    I suspect that Trump offering asylum to Afrikaners has more to do with USA being pissed at SA for the Gaza case than him thinking there is a “South African Genocide”. He’s just trying to stir the pot but generally South Africans don’t take this seriously. Some people on here though…

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    wierd how they dint try to expel all the whites from africa after it ended.

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    I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.

    If your children are old enough to work, and they don’t even know about your country’s most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they’re at the bottom of the hiring list.

    They’re ignorant fucks! Lol

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      I mean… he didn’t say they are at the bottom because they are white.

      Maybe they are at the bottom of the list because they are dumb as rocks, and happen to be white. And he knows being dumb in America is no impediment, so he wants the asylum.

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      I mean, that’s probably not what they’re implying.

      I read that as “when my kids who have never experienced the reality of apartheid grow up, they will be discriminated against because they are white”

      The article is FULL of little bits like that to make them sound like reasonable people just trying to live. Thankfully the article also provides contrary evidence: 9.2% unemployment rate.

      Rich afrikaners who are upset apartheid is gone and they now have to be treated like normal people bitching about how they now have to actually earn jobs instead of being handed one for being white, and they still have the majority of jobs.

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    “I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.”

    Maybe you should educate them about history and then there can be a move towards reconciliation that’s helps reduce racial violence?

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    Non-whites have 4x the employment rate and whites are whining about not being on hiring lists? And are they aware that Trump was partially elected because of people here not wanting them competing for same jobs?

    What a mess we’ve made of our species

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        What are you suggesting is a crazy metric?

        What do you see as a failure? Specifically, what are you not defending?

        I’m not sure what correlation is obvious, but I’m missing it.

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    We have got to revoke their refugee status after this administration. This isn’t remotely valid claims.

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    Trump’s main minion Elon is behind these whispers into Trump’s ear about his bringing over his “ilk”.

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    Who’s land will they be stealing? All the land in America is already stolen by other White people.

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      Knowing him he’ll probably allow them to get on that “Gold Card” track without the money as a show of “combating the horrible racial injustice” in South Africa.

      Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they’ll be the ones with the “millions of illegals voting” for them.

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      There aren’t white farm workers in South Africa. Only black Africans are doing farm labor. So who is the ‘white farmer’? What does it mean? It’s the farm owner who gets all the product of the African farm labor and gives next to none of it to the farm laborers. Don’t try and condemn something you don’t understand.

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        A major political party with thousands of followers threatening to kill you is pretty simple understand.