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"White genocide" isn't a thing. Trump disagrees.

"White genocide" isn't a thing. Trump disagrees.

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You may have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents last month
from South Africa - and that more came this past weekend. They're
all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from
European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners
refugee status because he claims a "white genocide" is happening
against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it
coming from?

And why might this claim be politically expedient for the Trump
administration? And what parallels can we see between some of the
white Afrikaners and the American right? Brittany sits down with
South African journalist Kate Bartlett and Sean Jacobs, professor
of international affairs at the New School to get into it.

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