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White people are in serious danger of genocide in South Africa.

I would support letting them all into the US as refugees.

White people are in serious danger of genocide in South Africa.

I would support letting them all into the US as refugees.

US may be superpower but when shit hits fan it will be worst of all. People with guns will be at each other. Center city riot is.nothing. let's hope govt stays stable here.

My aunt and uncle hosted a white South African in the 1980's as an exchange student. She felt REALLY bad about apartheid, and me, being a stupid teenager thought Apartheid was a terrible thing. We only talked briefly.

I wonder if I can get into contact with her again?

White people are in serious danger of genocide in South Africa.

I would support letting them all into the US as refugees.

Patrick says

White people are in serious danger of genocide in South Africa.

I would support letting them all into the US as refugees.

I’m actually surprised a very wealthy person hasn’t worked to move South African whites onto arable land in the US, particularly in a left leaning state where conservative voters could move the needle in the future. Just speculation, but eastern/central Washington seemed like a good place. Make Spokane and Yakima the new population centers. Or build up somewhere in the Central Valley.

Move hundreds of thousands of South Africans and offer to build homes, farms, and industry. Encourage high birth rates and make a leftist strong hold red.

Move hundreds of thousands of South Africans and offer to build homes, farms, and industry. Encourage high birth rates and make a leftist strong hold red.

richwicks says

My aunt and uncle hosted a white South African in the 1980's as an exchange student. She felt REALLY bad about apartheid, and me, being a stupid teenager thought Apartheid was a terrible thing. We only talked briefly.

I wonder if I can get into contact with her again?

They have some of the cutest White girls

WineHorror1 says

Move hundreds of thousands of South Africans and offer to build homes, farms, and industry. Encourage high birth rates and make a leftist strong hold red.

Just like how Obama moved Ethiopians into Minneapolis to get someone like Omar elected.

Ilhan Omar is from Somalia

richwicks says

Ilhan Omar is from Somalia

Oops, I miswrote there. I was up in Minneapolis a few years back visiting the city's main Cab Company. Most of the taxi drivers in Minneapolis were Somali. They may have been as smart as your engineer friend but for now they take low end jobs. I was not commenting on their intellect, just pointing out the high enough concentration of Somali to get Omar elected.

My aunt and uncle hosted a white South African in the 1980's as an exchange student. She felt REALLY bad about apartheid, and me, being a stupid teenager thought Apartheid was a terrible thing. We only talked briefly.

I wonder if I can get into contact with her again?

richwicks says

My aunt and uncle hosted a white South African in the 1980's as an exchange student. She felt REALLY bad about apartheid, and me, being a stupid teenager thought Apartheid was a terrible thing. We only talked briefly.

I wonder if I can get into contact with her again?

Was Ron Dellums your uncle?

about South Africa, who against all odds managed to reach their Paris Agreement climate goals.

The nation has already slashed enough emissions to have reduced output between 350 and 420 megatons of carbon dioxide by 2030, meeting their goal of between 398 and 614 megatons.

So, how did South Africa do what so few have been able to manage?

Why, by initiating a nationwide energy crisis with rolling blackouts due to a multitude of catastrophic technical failures at electrical stations, of course!

Most of the people of South Africa have lost access to refrigeration, education, communication services, medical services, and work. Over two-thirds of businesses have laid off employees or closed because of the power outages.

And how did their power plants get to this point?

Equity.

That's right. South Africa thought there were too many skilled white engineers in important positions like those at power plants. Since the end of Apartheid in the 1990s, South Africa's government has adopted a replacement strategy to replace white people in every field with black people.

There was just one big problem: Apartheid had never allowed for the training of black engineers who knew how to run power plants.

Unfortunately, South Africa threw themselves into their replacement project with little worry about the technical details and drove all the highly trained white engineers out of the country, mostly to Arab nations like the United Arab Emirates.

Now, South Africa is on the verge of national collapse. That's not hyperbole. What was once a developed nation is about to crash backwards into the Dark Ages. They are facing mass starvation, their businesses are failing, and they have little access to healthcare, which is a recipe for disease and death.

But their falling emissions are saving the planet, so it sounds like they're winning from a global Marxist perspective!

My home country of South Africa experiences on average 75 murders a day. This equates to a homicide rate of 45 per 100 000 people.

That rate is matched only by certain cities in the US and across South America.

In El Salvador, the murder rate in 2019 was 38 per 100 000 people. Midway through that year, Nayib Bukele was elected to the presidency. Today the murder rate is 2.4 per 100 000, after a crackdown on gangs and a refusal to negotiate with them.

This has driven liberals to despair. Democracy is now apparently under threat in El Salvador, because you can walk the streets freely, because it was shown that a country torn apart by drugs and civil war and gangs could, within years, become as safe as Luxembourg given the right leadership.

A common experience for any South African, of any race, is being told by one’s elders how one used to be able to walk around cities at night, how one did not fear for one’s life returning home from a dinner party, how houses used to not be fortresses, how farmers were not always terrorist targets.

When I ruminate on all this tragedy, I often think of a passage from the classic South African novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, by the liberal paragon, Alan Paton, written in the ‘voice’ of white, English South Africa, after the murder of the reform-minded character, Arthur Jarvis:

We shall live from day to day, and put more locks on the doors, and get a fine fierce dog when the fine fierce bitch next door has pups and hold on to our handbags more tenaciously; and the beauty of the trees by night, and the raptures of lovers under the stars, these things we shall forgo. We shall forgo the coming home drunken through the midnight streets, and the evening walk over the star-lit veld. We shall be careful, and knock this off our lives, and knock that off our lives, and hedge ourselves about with safety and precaution. And our lives will shrink, but they shall be the lives of superior beings; and we shall live with fear, but at least it will not be a fear of the unknown. And the conscience shall be thrust down, the light of life shall not be extinguished, but be put under a bushel, to be preserved for a generation that will live by it again, in some day not yet come; and how it will come, and when it will come, we shall not think about at all. ...

On this night, my wife woke me to inform me she had heard strange noises down the passage. She thought it was the cat again.

Looking back, I am surprised that I didn’t stay put and just wait to hear it myself. Instead, I wandered down the passage to see three intruders coming towards me. They burst into our room, turned on the lights, pointed a gun at us, forced me to the ground and began to gag me and tie me up with my belts and ties.

The night hit rock bottom when I heard my elder two-year-old son wake up and cry in his room down the passage. One of the intruders went and picked him up and put him in the bed next to my wife, who had begun to breastfeed our younger two-month-old son to try to keep him quiet. She then tried to hide our elder son under the sheets so he would not see what was happening.

I distinctly remember the feelings I experienced as I lay on the floor. The python squeezed the air out of my lungs. The anaconda was in the room with us. As I lay there gagged on the floor, I thought about how vulnerable my wife was. I thought about how vulnerable my sons were. And I knew, deeper than any rational thought, that I was completely powerless. That anything could now happen to my entire world and there was nothing I could do. It could all be destroyed, right now, in front of my eyes. ...

All of this was made worse by the strange news I received that same day, that my grandmother in Switzerland had committed suicide by means of the legal procedure of euthanasia within Swiss law. She had not been in any pain, or ill in any way, but had followed her ‘partner’ in the process. This to me is the ultimate symbol of Western decadence, and I remember my thoroughly South African father, her son, who had long rejected the narrow, cramped order of the country of his fathers, being angry more than sad. The rest of our family were more understanding.

I believe we were psychologically harmed by the trauma counselling that followed soon after. It is conventional wisdom that you need to talk out your problems, to process them, to come to terms with them. I am yet to see any proof that mental health and suicide rates have improved with the enactment of this wisdom. When I retold our story to the counsellor, the fight or flight adrenaline simply re-soaked my body. Later I would read up on this phenomenon. ...

It is a sad truth that most South Africans have had this same experience, with many having a far worse ending. Farm murders, for example, are real in South Africa and in areas where I have lived, there have been beheadings, torture, and people hacked to death with machetes. Statistically, the South African murder rate is around five times higher than the global average. But for a white South African farmer, his chances of being murdered are 15 times greater.