The Binary Narrative: Roets and Carlson's One-Sided Story of South Africa

I finally watched the interview. Roets/Carlson fans love to ask, "Where are the lies?" The problem isn’t the lies - it’s the dishonesty: a mix of exaggerations, selective omissions, and dramatic framing designed to sell a story.

My take:

1. Exaggeration of Government Intent as "Genocidal"

Claim: Carlson and Roets repeatedly suggest the South African government is pursuing a genocidal policy against whites, citing farm attacks, "kill the Boer" chants, and land expropriation policies.

Labelling farm attacks and land policies as "genocide" ignores the legal definition, lacks proof of state orchestration, and inflates intent beyond evidence.

Dishonesty: The framing exaggerates by conflating specific policies and incidents with a broader, unproven intent—designed more to evoke fear or sympathy than to reflect reality. 2. Selective Portrayal of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela Mandela and the ANC

Claim: Roets claims Mandela was jailed for military actions, not just leadership, and ties the ANC to terrorism, painting a darker picture than the Western heroic narrative.

Roets selectively presents facts, ignoring Mandela’s role in post-apartheid reconciliation and the ANC’s broader liberation context, while exaggerating the shift to targeting civilians.

Dishonesty: Selectively highlighting violence while ignoring Mandela’s peace efforts and the apartheid context falsely frames the ANC as terrorists rather than resistance fighters, distorting history.

“Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Afrikaners” in South Africa

Well if that is the human rights cause of “our” lifetime, let’s make sure that ALL white Afrikaner victims of “genocide and ethnic cleansing” count.

NB!! Seen as we can’t tell what language a person speaks just by looking at them, I will only list victims that have Afrikaans sounding names and victims that are white. Because of the scale of this “cause” it will be an ongoing project.

We will start with ongoing court cases, in no particular order:

Anton Bouwer allegedly murdered his elderly parents, Bettie (73) and Barry Bouwer (78). step-daughter, Natasha Bouwer (22), and domestic worker, Elizabeth Mahlangu (55) (I know Elizabeth won’t count in this ethnic cleansing cause but she matters to me) in January 2024. Bouwer shot his wife, Adelle, but she survived. He is also being investigated for the murder of his brother, Robbie Bouwer, in 2011.

* Robbie Bouwer’s name was circulated on a White Genocide list
previously - so don’t double count.
Johan Smith allegedly beat his wife, Theonette Smith to death on a farm near Brits and threw her half naked body on the railway line, and then reported her missing in October 2024.

Farm Murders in South Africa 🇿🇦

We must recognise that while bad faith actors have distorted the farm murder narrative for their own anti-transformation agenda, every life lost to violence in South Africa is one too many. Every murder, regardless of context, is a tragedy that deserves our attention and compassion.

When analysing farm murder statistics, it’s important to understand the definition. A farm attack is classified based on location (a farm or smallholding), not the victim’s race or occupation.

Let's unpack .... Let's start with dealing with some of the myths ...

Myth One: There is a Cover Up and Farm murders are never covered by the media

Farm murders receive extensive media coverage, far more than their share of overall murders in South Africa. In fact, they are reported on disproportionately more than any other type of murder.

According to Afriforum's report titled Complicity (2019), 70.9% of farm murders are covered in mainstream media.

South Africa 🇿🇦Race-Based Laws: Pre-1994 and Post-1994

"There are more race laws in place in South Africa today that there were under apartheid."

In the absence of a source document for South Africa's Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) affiliate, the Free Market Foundation's (FMF) widely distributed graph, a breakdown will be provided at the end of this thread on why the graph is misleading, a false equivalence, and a manipulated political narrative.

Before we dive into the details, an important fact to keep in mind is that pre-1994 era had race-based laws, primarily to enforce white domination. The post-1994 era has race-related laws, primarily to correct historical injustices.

Let's unpack .... South Africa Pre-1994 (Segregation and Apartheid Era) - Police State

Governance Context

State Type: Police State under white minority rule.

Legal Framework: Laws were designed to institutionalise white supremacy, disenfranchise non-white South Africans, and suppress opposition.

Enforcement: State-controlled police, military, and intelligence agencies to uphold apartheid laws through brutality, detention, and extrajudicial killings.

Getting a racist fired from his job may seem like a win. IMO he will probably just get hired again, and the SYSTEM stays the same.

Outing individual racists may be a worthy cause, but how does it change the system? And online, what actual power does an anonymous Twitter account have?

People with the POWER to change systems, own their message. They show their faces, because they have the power to back it up. It's not as as easy to chip away at their message that usually promotes some white supremacist idea. Remember they

Dearest White Person (you know who you are)

I know you are going through so much right now.

There's all these black people expecting you to listen to their lived experiences and how systemic racism has affected their lives. Then there is that dreadful woke, evil lefty group that react to your bigotry as if you have actually done something wrong.

When you call out "reverse racism", mean people accuse you of trying to reverse engineer the marginalisation and oppression of black people to create a false sense of victimhood. Shocking!

It's like the

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