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Originally Posted by cannon7
I thought you could hear the dog whistle? Is that not the case?
See the irony of this "dog whistle" business is that it's supposed to be something said with subversive racist undertones only intended to be understood by fellow racists. But why is it so easily identifiable by supposed non-racists? Not a very good dog whistle if you ask me.
But your link appears to make the case that because there are no reliable statistics to support attacks on white farmers and the fact that the crime rates in South Africa have (also?) increased -- then it must not be happening and is just white nationalist propaganda. Not very convincing if you ask me. To use another "dog whistle", it would be like saying because there were a lot of people being killed in WWII Europe and there weren't reliable statistics at the time, the Holocaust must not have happened.
I think there's a canyon between "it didn't happen" and "it's been exagerrated". And a provide a relevant Wikipedia article which touches on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_...n_farm_attacks |
I never called it a dog whistle, I said it was made up stuff that white nationalists/supremacists spread on the internet.
Attacks increased for one year. The number of attacks last year was below the mean for attacks since 2000. That is total attacks on all farmers. Of course these attacks are on white and black farmers. The murder rate was lower than the year before (for white and black farmers). There is no evidence that this is even happening (targeted attacks and murders against white farmers because they are white), you just pulled it out of thin air.
The article you provided basically reiterates that this claim is bull#### made up by white nationalists/supremacists.