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Technically yes, but usually I think there’s a racist undercurrent to xenophobia.

The US stopped accepting refugees recently… except white South Africans. I’d say these people share no more culture or values with the average American than a Central American refugee. Maybe less. I’d much rather party with a bunch of Central or South Americans than a bunch of Apartheid lost causers.

If ethnically white people were pouring across the US border I don’t think many of our immigration hawks would care much, even if some were committing crimes.



There's certainly a racist undercurrent to generalizing Afrikaner emigrants as "Apartheid lost causers."

Certainly there is no reason other than Apartheid concerns to leave South Africa for the USA... none at all...




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