The New York Times is defending South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party and leader Julius Malema for singing the song ‘Kill the Boer’ – who are white, Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The paper wheeled out academics and activists who insist the anti-white anthem should not be taken “literally”.
Video of Malema, whose party holds 44 seats in the South African legislature, leading a packed stadium in chants of “kill the Boer, the farmer” went viral at the end of July, with Elon Musk posting that he was “openly pushing for genocide of white people” in his home country.
Describing the clip as having been “seized upon by some Americans on the far right, who said that it was a call to violence,” the NYT cited various supposed experts who claim that ‘Kill the Boer’ is not really about genocide, but rather a “call to mobilize against an oppressive system,” at least according to one University of Johannesburg politics professor quoted for the story.
The NYT failed to mention that Malema also led chants of “shoot to kill” while making finger guns and performing an impression of a gun firing, which is perhaps even less ambiguous than chanting “kill the Boer”.
Shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”
This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT plaguing America today.
You have been warned.
WATCH.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 31, 2023
Malema has a long history of endorsing political violence in very much non-metaphorical terms, threatening that he and his followers would not only fight South African police officers on the streets, but come for them and their families “one by one” in the dead of night at a public rally in 2020, for example.
The EFF declares openly that it is a “radical and militant” movement that takes “inspiration from the broad Marxist-Leninist tradition,” with the first pillar of its policy platform being the expropriation of land owned by white people, without compensation, for “equal redistribution”.
