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Admitting white Afrikaner refugees while simultanenously cancelling admission of other refugees who already were told when they could enter the US is legally dubious [1].

Being a Zionist is comparable to being an Afrikaner now?

Of course Afrikaner society was and had long between hideously racist, but so was the British colonial government.

If you look at that author’s articles on South Africa; they seem to echo right-wing Afrikaner talking-points.

He also specially carved out a special South African Afrikaner refugee status for white South Africans.

I'm not very sympathetic to Israel (did Nelson Mandela recognize the right of the Afrikaner people to exist, and affirm the existence of South Africa as an Afrikaner state?

So not a single white Afrikaner has been admitted as a refugee in the last..

Say, for example, the Afrikaner failson of a gemstone magnate, who is regrettably good at cosplaying a foolish person's idea of a wise person.

Naspers was founded in 1915 (as De Nasionale Pers Beperkt - National Press) to promote Afrikaner Nationalism in the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer war.

Sincerely, a white Afrikaner (not a boer).

On the other hand, Roelof Botha tends to remain outside the political limelight despite being from Afrikaner political royalty (his granddad was the Foreign Minister towards the end of Apartheid).

The real shame is that The Afrikaner nationlist party that instituted apartheid ran on the platform in 1948, the same year that the Dixiecrats in America ran on a segregationist platform.

Imho, that "soul" you describe is an artifact of human sentimentality and a very successful marketing campaign by a bunch of Afrikaner colonialists.

It was the perceived "threat" of racial integration (and the attendant economic competition) driven by English liberals that made race the primary focus of Afrikaner politics.

The only one that raised any response – from a very burly Afrikaner – was me stating I was a "6ft invisible bumblebee".

He was sued for that by the guy and won his trial by convincing the judge that "pedo" is actually common Afrikaner lingo, and it was a casual insult.

Her mother's side (English) would be horrified by this, whereas her dad's side (Afrikaner) wouldn't be upset in the least.

Afrikaner national identity initially formed in opposition to the former and shifted to defining itself against the latter as the country began industrializing.

And since the end of British rule, the South African system has discarded a lot of its British heritage-much of that was driven by its Afrikaner-dominated apartheid era ruling party.