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Why Republicans are fixated on faux ‘white genocide’

Editorial Board Published May 17, 2025
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Explaining the Proper is a weekly sequence that appears at what the suitable wing is presently obsessing over, the way it influences politics—and why you should know.

This previous week, President Donald Trump took a break from bashing immigrants and refugees to grant a particular exception to a gaggle of white immigrants from South Africa, a lot of whom are descended from farmers who benefitted from racist apartheid insurance policies. 

The choice upset the Episcopal Church, which mentioned it might now not work with the federal authorities on refugee resettlement.

When requested by a reporter on Monday why he determined to make this exception, Trump doubled down on the right-wing “white genocide” delusion. 

“It’s a genocide that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or Black, it makes no difference to me,” he mentioned.

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In fact, Trump is a racist who makes use of racist language and pushes racist insurance policies—so it completely makes a distinction to him.

Across the similar time that the exception for white South Africans occurred, Elon Musk—who’s initially from South Africa—had a “white genocide” drawback as effectively. Grok, the bogus intelligence chatbot created by Musk’s AI firm, started pumping out details about “white genocide” in responde to unrelated questions.

However the suitable’s obsession with the “white genocide” delusion is nothing new.

Throughout his time at Fox Information, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson spent episode after episode of his program arguing {that a} “white genocide” was in progress, and that company media was a part of a conspiracy overlaying it up. He even linked arms with white supremacists in 2018 to argue {that a} imply tweet about Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Kavanaugh was proof of “white genocide.”

Equally, throughout Trump’s first time period in 2018, he pushed for a federal investigation of “the large-scale killing of farmers” in South Africa, which happy white supremacists who’ve argued that the nation is engaged in “white genocide.”

However, like most of what Trump says, this was constructed on falsehoods. The 2018 information truly confirmed that assaults on farmers in South Africa have been on the decline, disproving the right-wing declare that white farmers have been being disproportionately focused.


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In February, a South African court docket decided that claims of “white genocide” have been “clearly imagined and not real.” Moreover, South Africans are nonetheless dwelling with the aftermath of bigoted apartheid insurance policies.

Beneath apartheid, Black folks weren’t allowed to personal land, and land was stolen from Black households. A 2017 audit discovered that, whereas white folks make up simply over 7% of the inhabitants, they personal 72% of farms and different agricultural properties.

The “white genocide” delusion is being invoked in U.S. politics as a result of conservatives way back embraced the politics of victimhood. Even when the suitable is in majority management of U.S. political establishments, like proper now, it nonetheless claims that it’s a persecuted minority.

Few conservative figures like to play the sufferer as a lot as Trump, who has made frequent claims that mysterious forces are out to get him.

This mentality completely combines with the conservative embrace of white supremacy. Claiming {that a} “white genocide” is underway, even when the information disproves it, turns into a method of being racist whereas concurrently laying arms on the mantle of victimhood.

As they flip a blind eye to still-existing systemic racism in South Africa, conservatives proceed to say that there is no such thing as a systemic racism in the USA—regardless of reams of information proving in any other case.

That is a part of the conservative legacy. When he held workplace within the early Nineteen Eighties, President Ronald Reagan continued to conduct official enterprise with and had diplomatic relations with the apartheid authorities of South Africa. Reagan appeared on because the state pushed these racist insurance policies, and now Trump has welcomed the beneficiaries of that racism with open arms.

Regardless of Trump’s claims that his new refugee exception helps white South African immigrants who’re victims of “white genocide,” it nonetheless exists solely in delusion.

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