In South Africa, white farmers are increasingly being subjected to coercive expropriation, robbery and murder. This past week U.S President Donald Trump approved the entry as refugees of several dozen Afrikaners fleeing an atmosphere in their homeland that includes recurring exhortations to “Kill the Boer” – referring to the historical name for white South African farmers. The U.S. left went bananas, again revealing that in the woke/DEI mind, certain people can never be the victims of racism.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
