As the US president rapidly escalates pressure on South Africa in the name of white citizens, we must stand up for reason and principle
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Donald Trump’s chainsaw massacre of the rules and pieties that shaped the post–Cold War order marks a new moment in both American and global history.
During and after the Cold War the US used a mixture of hard power — invasions, coups, assassinations, sanctions — and soft power — its media, universities, think-tanks, state and allied private donors and its power over the international financial institutions — to sustain its domination. Europe and its settler colonies have ruled the world since 1492 when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean. That domination was originally legitimated and organised through a claim to the superiority of Christianity. Since the latter part of the 17th century the dominance of religion has given way to race as the central ideology. After World War II claims to the superiority of the West began to displace open claims of racial superiority in polite company.
With the support of South African emigres like Elon Musk, the most followed person on X, and Joel Pollak, an editor at the far right Breitbart News, this has placed claims about white South Africans at the centre of the open racial revanchism in the US.Just as Trump’s turn to bellicose grandstanding on the international stage is motivated by the declining power of the US, his turn to open racism is motivated by a set of challenges to white domination in the US.
For any racist the idea of white people living as a minority among a black majority, let alone under largely black rule, is going to be deeply unsettling. But this is not the full explanation for the intense and escalating hostility to South Africa by Trump and others in the US. They are also exploiting racism and racist conspiracy theories to legitimate their attack on South Africa for the temerity of taking Israel to the ICJ.
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