The words the mainstream media use are very telling. When South Africa levels slanders of ‘genocide’ against Israel, without any evidence whatsoever, the MSM always, always, repeat them without qualification.
Yet, when US President Donald Trump accuses South Africa of genocide – with evidence to hand – the MSM clutch their pearls that it’s ‘unsubstantiated’.
This is the same gambit they pursued when they accused Trump of disputing the 2020 election result ‘without evidence’.
That was, bluntly put, a lie. What the MSM were doing was deliberately conflating ‘evidence’ with ‘proof’. What is evidence, though? According to the dictionary, “anything that you see, experience, read or are told that causes you to believe that something is true or has really happened”. So, Trump had evidence: not proof, certainly, and perhaps not very strong evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
Similarly, substantiate means, “to support a claim with facts”. Once again, Trump has ‘substantiated’ his claim with apparent facts. He may not have proved it, but the MSM are relying on their readers’ lack of understanding the correct meaning of the words they use, in order to lie to their faces.
So, what has Trump done (this time) to set the MSM off on their careening cavalcade of lies and misinformation?
Donald Trump has ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, demanding an explanation over unsubstantiated claims of “white genocide” in an extraordinary meeting where he played a video clip purporting to show evidence of the persecution of Afrikaner farmers.
(Note, again, the wording: ‘purporting’. The video doesn’t ‘purport’ (i.e., falsely claim) to ‘show evidence’ (i.e., show material to support its claim that something really happened); it does show evidence. Whether the evidence is strong, or even factual, is a different matter.
That the MSM is mendaciously using weasel-words to deny something it apparently doesn’t want to believe, as well as peddle bias, is not.
Mr Trump used the meeting before the world’s media to promote claims of land seizures and mass killings of white farmers in South Africa, at one point brandishing a stack of news reports as evidence and slowly declaring “death, death, death” as he held the pages up to the cameras.
At one stage when the video was playing, Mr Trump pointed to the clip and said it was displaying “burial sites” for more than one thousand white farmers. He said it was a “terrible sight – I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Watch them shuffle the peas and shells again.
Yet Mr Ramaphosa did not recognise the location and asked where it was. “I would like to know where that is, because this I’ve never seen,” he said.
No: he claimed not to recognise the location. He may be telling the truth, or he may be lying. It’s truer to say ‘Mr Ramaphosa claimed not to recognise the location’. But that would be to rigorously report the facts, not slant them to a preferred narrative angle.
The lights were dimmed and a video was played for about four minutes, during which South African political figure Julius Malema – the leader of the radical left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters party – called for violence against white farmers. Mr Ramaphosa clearly appeared uncomfortable and refused to watch in parts.
Mr Ramaphosa swiftly sought to distance himself from the statements in the video. “Let me clarify that because what you saw, the speeches that were being made, one, that is not government policy,” Mr Ramaphosa said. “We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to various policies.”
“And in many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy. Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying – even in the parliament. And they are a small minority party, which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution.”
In fact, the ‘small minority party’ are the fourth-largest in the South African parliament and is a member of the official opposition caucus. The EFF has over a million members, and growing. Ramaphosa’s ANC has only 661,489 members, and falling.
If the US Greens, the fourth-largest party in that country, were openly calling for violence against Blacks, you can bet the MSM wouldn’t try to similarly sweep it under the carpet.
Mr Trump interjected, saying that “but you do allow them to take land … and when you take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them.”
Mr Ramaphosa responded by saying: “No, no. There is criminality in our country. People who do get killed unfortunately through criminality are not only white people. The majority of them are black people.”
Ramaphosa is using a common gambit of those who try to deny what is happening in South Africa.
While it is true that the rate of murders of white farmers is a fraction of the general murder rate in South Africa under near-lawless ANC rule, there are murders and murders. After all, murders by terrorists are just a fraction of murders overall. School shooting murders in the US (69 in 2024) are a fraction of total murders (24,849).
So, who in the MSM wants to argue that school shootings in the US ‘aren’t real’?
We take more notice of the relatively small numbers of actual deaths from terrorism for two reasons. Firstly, the motive or ideology behind them. Secondly, the heinousness of terror killings.
The often horrifyingly brutal murders of white farmers, for blatantly racial and ideological reasons, matter.
No matter how hard the MSM tries to dodge.
