The recent arrival of roughly 50 white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa has done more than trigger partisan outrage—it’s ripped the mask off an ideological double standard that’s become all too familiar in today’s political discourse. Suddenly, those who champion open borders and humanitarian asylum for nearly every conceivable group are furious that Donald Trump would extend those same protections to a small number of white South Africans facing a dire reality.
At the heart of this uproar is not policy—it’s ideology. Because in the eyes of the modern progressive establishment, race doesn’t just inform context—it defines worthiness.
On CNN, former Obama official Ashley Allison delivered a racially charged response that would have triggered national scandal had it been aimed at any other group. Telling Afrikaners to “go back to Germany” if they don’t like being persecuted economically and physically in South Africa is not just ignorant—it’s emblematic of the cultural immunity granted to bigotry when it targets white minorities.
Afrikaners are not German. Their ancestors settled in South Africa over 350 years ago. They are South African. Full stop. Their roots in that land run deeper than many ethnic groups’ ties to modern nation-states, including most of those now defending South Africa’s policies as “justice.”
The most chilling development, however, came not from American pundits but from the South African government itself. In a statement responding to the U.S. refugee action, it wrote:
“What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.”
That sentence should ring alarm bells in every free society. It is an open admission that the Afrikaners are not being persecuted for what they’ve done—but for who they are. “Historic privilege” is the state’s justification. “Transformation” is the euphemism. And exile, dispossession, and even death are the tools.
This is not restorative justice—it’s state-sponsored ethnic retaliation, dressed in the language of “equity.”
If these conditions existed under a European regime, the cries of “human rights abuses” would be deafening. If this were Russia, the sanctions would be instantaneous. But because the perpetrators of this persecution govern from Pretoria and not Moscow—and because the victims are white—the global community shrugs.
The European Union has remained silent. The Biden-era diplomatic apparatus expelled the South African ambassador in March but otherwise downplayed the issue. And legacy media outlets either ignore the story or frame it as “controversial,” as if asylum based on race-based persecution is only valid for some.
But make no mistake: being white is not a disqualifier for suffering. And those who argue otherwise are not fighting for equality—they’re enabling vengeance.
This part right here means “they got away before we had a chance to get our revenge and punish them” pic.twitter.com/i1XX0SBojk
— Muller 🔶 (@mystisk_za) May 13, 2025
