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Naturally, the United States having its most openly racist presidency since Woodrow Wilson is creating joy among the best people in the world.

For decades, some members of the white Afrikaner minority have been trying to convince anyone and everyone who would listen that they are the true victims in post-apartheid South Africa.

They have made claims of mass killings of their people and widespread land grabs by a Black-led government that they insist is seeking retribution for the sins of the Afrikaner-led apartheid government. Their stories have been false or greatly exaggerated, but that hasn’t stopped them from being widely amplified and repeated online.

Afrikaners, an ethnic group that descended from European — primarily Dutch — colonizers, have found a champion of their cause in President Trump, and it has led to a moment that few of them could have imagined.

Mr. Trump on Friday put the weight of American influence behind a hotly disputed claim that Afrikaners were the “victims of unjust racial discrimination,” issuing an executive order to allow them to migrate to the United States as refugees, and halting aid to South Africa.

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“What happened last night is probably the most significant international action” on South Africa since 1994, when the apartheid regime lost power, Ernst Roets, the executive director of the Afrikaner Foundation, an advocacy group, said on Saturday.

Mr. Roets has made several trips to Washington over the years to meet with lawmakers and think tanks, and has another long-planned trip coming up in two weeks, he said. His organization has not met with any officials in the second Trump administration and was not directly involved in the executive order, he said. But they have spoken with people in Mr. Trump’s orbit and have raised international awareness for their cause, he said.

“We’ve done some things wrong, but every community has done some things wrong,” Mr. Roets said of Afrikaners. “We’ve had this sense of being scapegoated and blamed for everything. The fact that there’s now a recognition is something that I think a lot of people will welcome.”

Who’s really to blame for all those years of apartheid? Ah, everyone. Let’s focus on what really matters–getting white control back over the world. This argument completely mirrors that of the white South after Reconstruction, when they would say that slavery was bad and sure we made mistakes, but the only path forward is absolute white domination.

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