If someone had said that President Donald Trump would make Democrats and left-wing acolytes hate giving native Africans aid and assistance, people would have thought they had lost their minds. But when the Trump administration granted 49 Africans refugee status last week, that is precisely what happened. Suddenly, helping African refugees was frowned upon and criticized.
The people who regularly shunned others who identified as immigrants and refugees by skin color began doing the very same thing they claimed they were against. Why? Because for the first time in a long time, the refugees the United States admitted into the country were white. And if there is one thing left-wing acolytes hate the most, it is when the government helps people who are white.
That includes helping those at risk of being killed by a government because they were white, even if they happened to be from South Africa. It was a stunning reversal and societal pivot from the left-wing rhetoric of yesteryear regarding African immigrants and refugees. The political party that, for years, claimed to champion protecting immigrants who were fleeing brutal regimes and living conditions suddenly didn’t want to help immigrants who were fleeing brutal regimes and living conditions — solely because these immigrants were white.
Look at how reports by the legacy media described these South African refugees. As soon as it was revealed that these refugees would be coming to the U.S., the left-wing propaganda machines categorized them as “white” South Africans — as if the skin color was ever used before in describing any other refugees. This aggressive categorization and classification of immigrants is reserved for one group: white refugees and immigrants.
For example, NBC News, the BBC, the New York Times, PBS, the Associated Press, Vox, NPR, CNN, the Atlantic, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post all categorized the refugees as “white South Africans.” This is despite the fact that Trump’s executive order, which authorized the South African refugees to enter the U.S., doesn’t mention race or skin color.
In the “Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa” executive order Trump signed on Feb. 7, the South African refugees are only identified as “ethnic minority Afrikaners,” and it mentions the “hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.” No skin color was mentioned in the directive.
All of the aforementioned outlets could have easily chosen to identify them as “South African refugees” or “ethnic minority Afrikaners,” as is commonly done when the group of people is not white. However, they chose to identify them as “white South Africans,” and it was purposely done to portray the action in a negative light.
If you happen to disagree with such an assessment, try your best to do a Google search on programs that admitted “black” Africans, “brown” Mexicans, “black” Haitians, or the color of the skin of any nonwhite ethnic group. You won’t find any news stories describing such immigrants or refugees in that manner. They don’t exist. Why? The Left felt that using skin color to identify people who are not white was offensive, degrading, and disrespectful. However, such protections and considerations vanish when discussing white people.
FLEEING PERSECUTION, SOUTH AFRICAN ARRIVALS SCRAMBLE REFUGEE POLITICS
It’s indicative of this inexplicable disdain and intolerance that many on the Left have for people of European descent. It’s also how the left-wing legacy media subliminally marginalize white people. It’s immoral, it’s wrong, it’s unethical, and it must stop.
It’s time to be honest about this radical and dangerous left-wing agenda and expose it once and for all. Such purposeful hate and racial divisiveness have no place in American society.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
