DEBUNKING TUCKER: ARE WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS VICTIMS?

South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, is “genocidal” and “more racist” than the apartheid regime - that’s the outrageous claim made recently by right-wing podcaster and commentator Tucker Carlson during an interview with South African White-supremacist leader Ernst Roets. The latter has for years been instrumental in peddling falsehoods about the alleged persecution of White South Africans by the ANC government.

Among those taken in by such narratives is Donald Trump, who recently accused the government in Pretoria of doing “horrible things” to its White citizens. In February, Trump suspended all forms of aid to South Africa and offered refugee status to White South Africans, particularly so-called Afrikaners (descendants of Dutch-colonial settlers).

The US president’s remarks and actions have given oxygen in the media to the falsehood that White South Africans are being persecuted - with Carlson only adding to the half-truths and outright lies in circulation.

In this reaction video, we debunk some of the ludicrous things he and Roets say. As we note, White South Africans still control the lion's share of the economy and own more than two-thirds of the country's farmland.

Video credit: The Tucker Carlson Show/YouTube

Sources

https://sundayworld.co.za/business/corporate-south-africa-top-jobs-still-a-preserve-of-white-boys-club/

https://time.com/6087699/south-africa-wealth-gap-unchanged-since-apartheid/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/whites-own-73-of-south-africa-s-farming-land-city-press-says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/whites-own-73-of-south-africa-s-farming-land-city-press-says

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2020-08-05-in-south-africa-access-to-urban-green-areas-remains-a-white-privilege.html