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Everything is Genocide Except Genocide!
Acknowledging an imaginary genocide while funding another one is insane
Donald Trump propagated a false narrative by claiming there is a “white genocide” in South Africa.
He showed a screenshot of a as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
Reuters reports:
In fact, the video, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot following with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
The blog post showed to Ramaphosa by Trump during the White House meeting was published by American Thinker, a conservative online magazine, about conflict and racial tensions in South Africa and Congo.
The post did not caption the image but identified it as a “YouTube screen grab” with a link to a video news report about Congo on YouTube, which credited Reuters.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Andrea Widburg, managing editor at American Thinker and the author of the post in question, wrote…
