Sneak Peek: Mask Off

The Afrikaner refugee program has revealed the true depth of leftist anti-white hatred

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

A little bit of homespun wisdom. I lose track of the number of times one or other of my parents has told me that in my thirty-odd years on this rock, but they’ve always been right. If somebody is telling you who they really are, you only have yourself to blame if you don’t listen.

And that’s especially true when you’re dealing with people who hate you and actively want to do you harm.

If you’re white, leftists want to do you harm. They certainly don’t want to protect you from other people who want to do you harm either. In fact, if you’re white, leftists believe you’re not deserving of the same moral consideration as other people at all. You’re literally a different, uniquely despicable class of human being. All because of the colour of your skin.

Guilty of being white.

Of course, if you’ve been paying attention, you already know, a thousand times over, that leftists believe these things. You’ll know, only too well, that leftists blame white people for pretty much everything bad under the sun—everything bad that’s ever existed—from slavery and colonialism to climate change, gentrification and basic manners, like wearing headphones when you listen to music in public and greeting passersby on a walk in the forest.

Maybe you’ve been on the sharp end of this attitude yourself and reaped the disadvantages.

Of course, the more Machiavellian white-haters, especially in the media and the academic world, do their best to try and clothe their naked racism in more respectable garb. They know it looks bad with nothing on. And so they’ll say stupid crap that doesn’t make sense like, “Whiteness isn’t about race or skin colour. It’s a system of oppression, a structure of privilege that benefits white people and their allies and excludes People of Colour (always capitalised).”

But you just know, deep down, they don’t believe that hogwash. Whiteness is white people. It’s just people who have white skin. Obviously. Even if these racebaiters occasionally follow the absurd logic of the “whiteness” discourse to its absurd conclusion, accusing people like Kanye West of being a white supremacist—when he’s actually just a mentally ill rapper on drugs who’s absolutely furious his ex-wife started dating a well-endowed Jewish man—Kanye West is still good, really, because he’s black. Whereas white people…

But anyway something changed this week, when 59 Afrikaners touched down at Washington Dulles airport to begin a new life in the US. All the pretence was dropped, all the hedging. Suddenly, there was no attempt to mitigate or even disguise the anti-white bloodlust.

The mask was well and truly been taken off

Let’s recap. The new Trump administration quickly moved to censure the South African government, cutting off US foreign aid and also withdrawing from the G20 meeting that’s due to take place in Johannesburg this year, when leadership of the meeting will be passed to the US. President Trump also announced that he would be offering refugee status to Afrikaners who wanted to escape the South African government’s state-sanctioned racism, including a new land-expropriation law much like the one that turned Zimbabwe from a breadbasket into a basket case. Last week, after months of preparation, the refugee programme finally happened. Less than 60 Afrikaners have now arrived in the US, but thousands more may eventually come.

The refugees were greeted by a mean little protest at Dulles, but the real backlash has taken place on social media and in the news. Tiktok has been awash with homebrew reels of libtards screaming and howling about white supremacy and even threatening to hunt the new arrivals down and force them to go back to South Africa.

Talking heads said pretty much the same thing, with one commentator even suggesting the Afrikaners should go back to their own homeland, which isn’t South Africa, but Germany—apparently. Never mind that the Afrikaners have been in South Africa longer than the Bantu from whom most black South Africans are descended (and, incidentally, who perpetrated a ghastly genocide on the black Khoisan who were already living in the territory).

It was left to Rick Stengel, a former Deep State apparatchik, to reveal the logic underlying the hate. Stengel said that because the Afrikaners are “descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in history,” they don’t deserve to be allowed to resettle in the US. Even though, he added, “they’re not directly responsible for it.”

I think we can make too much of leftism as a kind of religion, and in doing so make ourselves liable to misunderstand what’s going on and lazily dismiss it as a kind of cult whose members exercise no individual agency of their own. But leftism is a religion, it employs theological structures of thought, value and motivation, and what Stengel described is nothing other than Original Sin. The Afrikaner people bear the stain of Apartheid, even if they played no role in its creation. There is nothing they can do to remove it, and so they must bear the consequences—forever.