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"White genocide" isn't a thing. Trump disagrees. | It's Been a Minute

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You may have heard that the U.S. gained () 59 new residents last month from South Africa and that more came () this past weekend. They're all white Afrikanersa white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners refugee status because he claims a "white genocide" is happening against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it coming from?

And why might this claim be politically expedient for the Trump administration? And what parallels can we see between some of the white Afrikaners and the American right? Brittany sits down with South African journalist Kate Bartlett () and Sean Jacobs () , professor of international affairs at the New School to get into it.

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