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Toronto Sun
7 days ago
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
HANSON: Are some racist slurs OK?
Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky dribbles the ball up court against the Dallas Wings during the second half of a game between Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings at College Park Center on May 31, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. Photo by Tim Heitman / Getty Images One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70% of Americans were stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin colour. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account In contrast, the other 'diverse' 30% were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old 'one-drop' rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any non-white ancestry was a minority victim. And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors. But human nature is universal and transcends race. One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost. We are now witnessing examples of what follows when anti-white stereotyping and racism are given a pass — as long as the purveyors can claim their victimhood entitles them to bias. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Recently, WNBA basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark got into one of their now-characteristic on-court rivalries. But, this time around, Reese mocked Clark as a 'White gyal (sic) running from the fade.' Reese assumes that her status as a Black star grants her immunity from backlash — a privilege unlikely to be extended if the roles were reversed. Or is her crassness a simple reflection that 60 years after the Civil Rights movement, it is deemed cool or deservedly acceptable to use the word 'white' derogatorily? After all, loose-cannon Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-TX, in one of her accustomed racialist rants, recently went after her party's big Democratic donors, who raised a record amount of money for Kamala Harris' short-lived campaign. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Crockett played the race card when claiming that Democratic insiders were already backing the next party nominee as the 'safest white boy.' Her racist irritation is puzzling. After all, two out of the last four Democratic presidential nominees have been African-Americans. It is certainly easy to see why Crockett, who endlessly spouts off about race in congressional sessions, used the pejorative 'white boy.' She knows there are no repercussions given her race and, to a lesser extent, her gender and left-wing ideology. Recently, a past 2018 slur resurfaced from another House Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-MN. She had falsely claimed, 'I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths in this country.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Omar's stereotyped smear was not only racist but also factually incorrect. The FBI's 2018 data on perpetrators of murder, when the race of the offender was known, reveals that 54.9% of the nation's murderers that year were African-American, who constitute about 13% of the population. And when the race of the murderer in rare interracial killings was known, blacks were more than twice as likely to murder whites as whites were to kill blacks. During recent controversies over leaks at the Pentagon, former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, during the Obama administration, injected race by smearing Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. She levelled a trifecta race/gender/sexual orientation slur — all irrelevant to the issue at hand: 'Well, if you're a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defence.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Rice still chafes that as a sometimes-official Obama administration spokeswoman, she serially and deliberately misled the country about the fatal 2012 terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi. In all these cases, there was no fallout from racial categorization and demonization. Again, we apparently accept the pernicious idea that those identifying as an oppressed group cannot themselves voice illiberal stereotypes. But while our political elites and celebrities seem fixated on using racial putdowns for career advantage and personal notoriety, the people increasingly ignore their entrenched and off-putting racism. For example, in a recent Rasmussen poll surveying public attitudes toward Trump's first 100 days in office, 62% of Hispanics voiced approval (higher than the 49% of whites). And 39% of blacks agreed. One result of the 2024 campaign was that while Democrats seemed fixated on racial stereotypes, the public had moved on. Voters increasingly see class considerations transcending race. That fact may explain why exasperated and flailing Democrats and leftists desperately seek to resurrect racial polarization instead of finding a popular middle-class agenda. Historically, tribalism erodes a multiracial democracy. It did when white leaders in the past expressed racist attitudes toward blacks. And it will again if black elites simply flip the paradigm and do the same.
NDTV
27-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
'Kill The Farmer' Song Not A Call To Murder: South African President
Cape Town: A chant that US leader Donald Trump used to back claims of white genocide in South Africa is an apartheid-era slogan that did not really mean for farmers to be killed, the president said Tuesday. Trump showed clips of an opposition politician chanting "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" at tense talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa last week where he repeated unfounded claims of an orchestrated campaign of violence against white farmers. He also asked why the opposition politician seen making the chant, opposition firebrand Julius Malema -- whom Mr Trump mistakenly said was in government -- had not been arrested. Mr Ramaphosa told journalists the government accepted court rulings that the controversial slogan should be considered in the context of the liberation struggle against the brutal system of white-minority rule called apartheid. "It's not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to be killed," Mr Ramaphosa said. "We are a country where freedom of expression is in the bedrock of our constitutional arrangements," he said, brushing aside the suggestion that Mr Malema should be arrested. Mr Malema's continued use of the chant after the end of apartheid in 1994 infuriates many in South Africa and some groups have attempted to have it banned as hate speech. Mr Malema, the vocal leader of the populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, is also seen in the video shown at the White House as claiming, "We are going to occupy land, we require no permission." This fuels claims repeated by Mr Trump that a revised land expropriation act will allow the government to seize white farmland. The law contains a "nil compensation" clause but the government says this would only be in exceptional circumstances and after efforts to seek a "just and equitable" settlement. The revised law brings the judiciary directly into decisions about expropriation, Mr Ramaphosa said. Scenarios of the government taking property without compensation could include situations where the owners could not be traced or were heavily indebted and the property was required for the public interest, he said. The Democratic Alliance, the second-largest party in the government of national unity, has gone to court to challenge the "nil compensation" provision, which they say is open to abuse.
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First Post
25-05-2025
- Politics
- First Post
South African oppn leader vows to keep singing song that Trump calls proof of 'white genocide'
Julius Malema, leader of the populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), was seen chanting provocative slogans such as 'cut the throat of whiteness' and 'Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,' a historical anti-apartheid rallying cry in a video Trump played for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa read more Firebrand South African politician has decided to stand by the "Kill the Boer" chant. AFP South Africa's outspoken opposition leader Julius Malema vowed Saturday (May 24) to continue using controversial chants highlighted by US President Donald Trump during a recent tense meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. Trump surprised Ramaphosa during their meeting on Wednesday by playing a four-minute video intended to support his contentious claim of a ' white genocide ' taking place in South Africa, a nation still grappling with deep racial inequalities decades after apartheid ended. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Malema, 44, leader of the populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), was prominently featured in Trump's video. He appeared wearing his party's red beret and chanting provocative slogans such as 'cut the throat of whiteness' and 'Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,' a historical anti-apartheid rallying cry. 'Kill the Boer' originated during the struggle against oppressive white-minority rule and apartheid policies. Despite repeated attempts by some groups representing white South Africans to ban the chant, courts lifted a temporary prohibition in 2010, ruling the song was historically significant rather than hate speech. Courts noted it was employed by Malema primarily as a provocative political tool. Speaking at a regional electoral rally on Saturday, Malema defended his use of the lyrics as part of the nation's 'heritage of struggle.' 'It is not my song. I did not compose this song,' Malema said in televised remarks. 'The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing is defending the legacy of our struggle. Therefore, I will never stop singing it. That would be a betrayal of the struggle of our people.' Malema established the anti-capitalist and often anti-US EFF in 2013 after being expelled from the youth wing of the governing African National Congress for allegedly promoting internal divisions. His fiery rhetoric appeals to many young South Africans frustrated by persistent economic inequalities three decades after apartheid's end. During their contentious Oval Office meeting, Ramaphosa and his delegation distanced themselves from Malema's statements, emphasising that his views do not represent official South African policy. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD With inputs from AFP
Time of India
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
South Africa's Malema vows to keep chanting controversial song
South Africa's Malema vows to keep chanting controversial song (Photo: AP) South Africa's firebrand opposition leader on Saturday vowed to keep using controversial chants that featured in a contentious White House meeting between the US and South African presidents. During talks in Washington on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa by showing a four-minute-long video in support of his claims of a "white genocide" in the country that overcame decades of apartheid. Julius Malema, a 44-year-old opposition politician, was the main character in the video, seen in several clips wearing the red beret of his populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party and chanting calls to "cut the throat of whiteness" as well as a controversial anti-apartheid song "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer". The decades-old "Kill the Boer" rallying cry was born during the struggle against the brutal policies of white-minority rule, and its use since the end of apartheid in 1994 infuriates parties that represent white South Africans, with many attempting to get it banned. A ban in 2010 was lifted after courts said it does not constitute hate speech and instead should be regarded in its historical context, and for the fact that it was being used by Malema only as a "provocative means of advancing his party's political agenda". by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo Speaking at a regional election on Saturday, Malema said the controversial lyrics were "the heritage of our struggle" and vowed to keep on using them. "It is not my song. I did not compose this song," Malema said in televised comments. "The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing it to defend the legacy of our struggle." "Therefore I will never stop singing" the song, he said. "That will be a betrayal to the struggle of our people." Malema, 44, is an opposition politician, leader of the anti-capitalist and anti-US EFF that he founded in 2013 after being thrown out of the youth league of the ruling African National Congress, where he was accused of fomenting divisions. He portrays himself as the defender of society's most disadvantaged and has attracted largely young supporters angry at the large social inequalities that exist in South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid. In the tense Oval Office meeting, Ramaphosa and his delegation distanced themselves from Malema's rhetoric.
Straits Times
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
South Africa's Malema vows to keep chanting controversial song
Mr Julius Malema, who helms the anti-capitalist and anti-US Economic Freedom Fighters party, was a central figure in US President Donald Trump's accusations that South Africa was undergoing a "white genocide". PHOTO: REUTERS JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's firebrand opposition leader on May 24 vowed to keep using controversial chants that featured in a contentious White House meeting between the US and South African presidents. During talks in Washington on May 21, US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa by showing a four-minute-long video in support of his claims of a 'white genocide' in the country that overcame decades of apartheid. Mr Julius Malema, a 44-year-old opposition politician, was the main character in the video, seen in several clips wearing the red beret of his populist, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party and chanting calls to 'cut the throat of whiteness' as well as a controversial anti-apartheid song 'Kill the Boer, kill the farmer'. The decades-old 'Kill the Boer' rallying cry was born during the struggle against the brutal policies of white-minority rule, and its use since the end of apartheid in 1994 infuriates parties that represent white South Africans, with many attempting to get it banned. A ban in 2010 was lifted after courts said it does not constitute hate speech and instead should be regarded in its historical context, and for the fact that it was being used by Mr Malema only as a 'provocative means of advancing his party's political agenda'. Speaking at a regional election on May 24, Mr Malema said the controversial lyrics were 'the heritage of our struggle' and vowed to keep on using them. 'It is not my song. I did not compose this song,' Mr Malema said in televised comments. 'The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing it to defend the legacy of our struggle.' 'Therefore I will never stop singing' the song, he said. 'That will be a betrayal to the struggle of our people.' The leader of the anti-capitalist and anti-US EFF had founded the party in 2013 after being thrown out of the youth league of the ruling African National Congress, where he was accused of fomenting divisions. He portrays himself as the defender of society's most disadvantaged and has attracted largely young supporters angry at the large social inequalities that exist in South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid. In the tense Oval Office meeting, Mr Ramaphosa and his delegation distanced themselves from Mr Malema's rhetoric. AFP Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
