The Mask Slips

Millions of black and brown economic asylum seekers are allowed into our country, but 59 white Afrikaners arriving here to escape genocide is racism. Anyone who still thinks there’s no ongoing intent to replace white people in the West is willfully ignorant.

Sometimes, the issue is so simple that you feel as though something is being hidden. It cannot really be so straightforward. There must be a complicated plan, a hidden agenda, some occult and nefarious goal that is concealed behind layers of misdirection.

American conservatives are especially prone to this unnecessary conspiratorial thinking. Many say the issue is not race. It is communism or atheism or a plan by “elites” to implement global government. Indeed, the elites want racial division because this helps them somehow. If you mobilize on behalf of your people, you are somehow doing what “they” want, even though the history of recent politics is the story of identity politics triumphing over abstract policy programs. Politics is, above all, about concrete interests, and principles are often just after-the-fact rationalizations to justify the pursuit of those interests. The closer one examines politics, the more it seems all politics is identity politics.

The State Department this week welcomed 59 Afrikaners to the United States. They arrived as families with small children, clutching American flags. It is a remarkable contrast to the usual image we get of “refugees”: mostly military-age males waving their home countries’ flags and barely concealing their resentment and hatred of the West and white people.

Anti-white hatred has destroyed Rhodesia and ruined South Africa, but the disease has metastasized throughout the West, including in the United States. Thus, the arrival of a few dozen white refugees, who arrived as families with plausible asylum claims, was met with an unhinged reaction on social media and in mainstream media. Rick Stangel said on MSNBC that Afrikaners are the darlings of “white supremacists” and that they are not suffering from injustice. Indeed, he insisted, “These folks have never had anything happen to them.”

Donald Trump’s refuge for a few Afrikaners is, in many ways, a small gesture — quite literally the least he could do. However, it has revealed more about the true nature of liberal morality than any speech or book. Our President deserves gratitude for that.

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