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South Africa criticises US plan to accept white Afrikaners as refugees

c/world · u/MicroWave@lemmy.world · 200 points

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South Africa has criticised the US as reports emerge suggesting Washington could receive white Afrikaners as refugees as early as next week.

A document seen by the BBC's US partner CBS describes the potential resettlement as a "priority" for President Donald Trump's government, however the timing has not been publicly confirmed by the White House.

In a statement published on Friday, South Africa's foreign ministry described the purported move as "politically motivated" and designed to undermine South Africa's "constitutional democracy".

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u/Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 points

The entire fucking world (with exceptions) is made up of privatized land, land that some bureaucratic twat decided to claim and declare people should pay them to exist on. Land should be free.

u/tourist@lemmy.world · 14 points

Yeah...

What I'm trying to get at is they're fleeing from a problem they collectively hallucinated

They're going to arrive in America and face actual problems

u/Maeve@kbin.earth · 27 points

I assume they aren't going to be handed a huge plot of land to farm with.

Bold assumption.

u/stoly@lemmy.world · 6 points

I like this take. So you want to live on the dollar? Hope you like expensive rent and low salaries.

u/expatriado@lemmy.world · 9 points

it was at institutional level, working for a bank, we don't do whites only loans anymore, but at personal level of course overt discrimination happens often

u/catloaf@lemm.ee · 15 points

Just the fact that you were learning about it means you were probably not in an area where people are overtly racist. It absolutely still happens.

u/tourist@lemmy.world · 32 points

I just don't know what they expect will happen when they get to the USA.

I assume they aren't going to be handed a huge plot of land to farm with.

u/expatriado@lemmy.world · 18 points

i remember learning about discrimination types, when i got to overt i was like that never happens anymore, it's always concealed, but republicans don't care don't they?