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May 22, 2025 6:58 PM EDT

The image came from a video that showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of #Congo. #Trump falsely presented the photo as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.

    • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      In that YouTube video you posted, the people living in all those tin shacks at the beginning of the video are those very same black people living in informal settlements I talked about in my original comment, that is not how the vast majority of white people in South Africa live, the vast majority of white people live in formal housing in the suburbs. You would know this if you actually did proper research. Townships and informal settlements are majority inhabited by black residents. So I don’t know why you stated in your original comment that:

      the reality that it is in fact true that whites in South Africa are heavily persecuted. They’re basically confided to small areas that are nothing short of horrific conditions and are equally comparable to homeless encampments seen throughout the US

      When the video you posted as evidence of this shows black people living in those conditions, not white people. The white people shown in that video lived in farm houses or small towns, as the focus of that video was on rural security and farm murders. Again, I am not denying that violent crime is a huge issue. But the claims you have made don’t even line up with your own source.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          1 day ago

          But you still can’t provide any evidence that white people are systemically oppressed in South Africa? As the comment you’re replying to says, most white people in SA live in formal housing in suburbs. They still actually have the property, land, and wealth passed down from colonization and apartheid. Their government isn’t really even challenging that, they still facilitate the exploitation of the black population, especially those far away from urban centers who work in mining and farming (as in the farmworkers, not farmers). If the white farmers themselves weren’t being attacked, most of us probably would’ve never heard about the inequality that still exists.

          Just to make my point clearer, in Zimbabwe they actually took the land away from the Rhodesian settlers and gave it to revolutionaries, and even that wasn’t genocide per se.