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This is one of the 59 Afrikaners personally welcomed at Dulles airport by the deputy secretary of State and in what Marco Rubio called a "tremendous accomplishment". That's the same Marco Rubio who personally cancelled visas of darker skinned people who signed Gaza protest letters.

Racism is the goal, protecting jews is the excuse.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 183 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You can be an anti semite, you just can't criticise Israel.

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This statement is way too fucking true. My wife was verbally abused by a right-winger for representing the Australian Greens a few weeks ago, being labelled an "anti-Semite". For anyone that is curious... The greens are outwardly condemning Israel and are not in the slightest anti-Semitic.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 47 points 10 months ago

We all know criticism of Israel is the only real antisemitism in the world.

/s

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

It blows my mind how many of the MAGA/Qanon folks openly talk shit about Jews with comments about things like “Jewish Space Lasers” and whatnot, and it’s perfectly acceptable. Anyone with a shade darker than white or not in that camp opposes an actual genocide, and they’re a terrorist. I know I know, rules for thee not for me bs. It’s just exhausting. And any attempt to try to point this out to MAGAts is pointless.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fash don't care about Jewish people, they care about the state of Israel.

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 9 points 10 months ago

The average Republican doesn't like Jews at all. By religious nuts, Israel is viewed as the guarantor of control over the Holy Land, and for slightly less religious nuts Muslims are just worse than Jews. Therefore anti-semitism is fine, not supporting the state of Israel isn't. Crazy world.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Israel has big “go back to where you came from” energy

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

Oh good, we got their Nazis.

But what did I expect white Afrikaners to be.

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the South African fascist foot soldiers masquerading as refugees makes such a transparent statement from the Trump administration that it is blinding. people claiming there are no racial motivators are fucking delusional or purposely lying at this point. it's one of the two and nothing else.

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

honestly, that's implied with how i described the type of South Africans being favored lol but yes.

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Just reasserting so anyone scoffing at your comment can remember that these people are specifically WHITE South Africans

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aren't afrikaaners white by definition?

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Are they? I'm not intimately familiar with afrikaaners I suppose. Thanks for the input

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

I've about had it. If one more shitty, awful thing happens, I'm going to really start hoping that somebody leads the revolution for me.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“It's a genocide that's taking place," [Trump] said at the White House [in reference to white South Africans]

I think I might have an aneurysm

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

tweeted Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’

"That sounds like something Hamas would say", would be the accusation. Hasn't that been enough to get a number of immigrant students here in the USA locked up for months?

"What to Know: Immigration Authorities Detain Tufts Student: Doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained leaving her home in Massachusetts and moved to a holding facility in Louisiana after being accused by ICE of supporting Hamas. Her visa has been revoked."

source

So I expect the trump administration will be revoking that Afrikaner's visa immediately for supporting Hamas, right? /s

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Report him. Seriously. Report him to ice.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anonymously, I wouldn't put it above them to find some excuse to mess with you for making their Daddy Trump look bad

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

After 58 years of pure hell on earth, ain't much they can do to me .

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ya know intellectually I know that there are probably some Afrikaners who are decent human beings who believe in egalitarianism, liberty, and being a decent human being. But for the life of me I have never seen one who hasn't had a floating sign above their head that says "I'm a subhuman Nazi, let the ravens feed on my flesh" curious that.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Back when I was working retail, my friends/coworkers tried to hook my up with this South African gal. She was very pretty, had an amazing accent, but after a few minutes, she just started dropping the most casually racist shit I'd ever heard in my life.

Stuff like "America is great, the people are prepared here, if you know what I mean."..."there were so many people in SA who wouldn't prepare, or work, or save anything" she was very obviously talking about black SAs at this point .

I broke it off pretty quickly. My out was that she was horribly racist, and a Mac user.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

A Mac user?! Fucking vile!

But yeah I've met one dude who was descended from an Afrikaner who was chill, basically his dad was a merc and his mom was Rhodesian both were disillusioned by that whole fiasco. His dad started an aid group for poor folks overall but more specifically for inner cities. Guy was chill, but really fucking hated the Dutch for some reason.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Charlize is cool.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are going to fit right in with the Nazis that live here.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

That's the intention. Get those white Nazi numbers up.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

They haven't had time to learn yet which ones are the "good" Racisms and which ones are the bad Racisms in the country they moved to.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Their antisemitism is okay, though huh

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This song was made decades ago and thanks to the hard work of many diligent Afrikaans it remains evergreen.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Very fine people /s

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

At least they are not trans... that would be the worst

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Do any of these “refugees” have musk as a last name?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

If the Jews run the world…guess who you can thank for getting you into the US

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is his name Elon?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

"Whew! We were finally able to save the white and rich. Mission accomplished!"

[–] J3ffJ4cks0n@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

The point here is telling people that Rubio penalised pro-gaza people but now is accepting an anti-jewosh person?

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Next year if you salute, you get free house with your permanent US Visa.