Episcopal Church: Helping White Refugees Violates 'Racial Justice'

It’s not genocide if it’s happening to white people.

Why is it that villains so often think they're heroes?

First, the story:

The Episcopal Church has announced, publicly, they were contacted by the federal government as part of an ongoing contract for refugee resettlement, to assist in the transition of white Afrikaner farmers who are fleeing racial violence and given refugee status by the Trump administration.

Specifically, because of the color of their skin, the Episcopal Church is now saying, “in light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice … we are not able to take this step.”

Among their pathetic explanations for their actions is this outright lie:

It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.

That is patent nonsense. Nonwhite refugees have been streaming into the countries of the West for decades. Any action taken now on behalf of Afrikaner refugees is an attempt to redress previous failures to protect them.

This is the Episcopal Church’s blatant attempt to cover for their own unmistakably racist position on the subject, and everyone with two moral brain cells to rub together knows it.

It’s not genocide if…

Genocide Watch, as the name suggests, is an organization that monitors oppression around the world, looking for any conditions that can be characterized as pre-genocidal. They have a ranking system for this—their “Ten Stages of Genocide.”

Roughly seven years ago, using the criteria in their ranking system, they had the situation with Afrikaners in South Africa at a Stage 6. Then the worldwide left—never missing a chance to show what racists they are—swooped in and stirred up a tempest.

They claimed that the situation with the Afrikaners did not justify a Stage 6 ranking, but their real reason was clear:

It’s not genocide if it’s happening to white people.

Naturally, being cowards, Genocide Watch backed off from their own assessment and downgraded the Afrikaner situation to a lower stage.

This event prompted me to look more closely at Genocide Watch’s ranking system. As it happens, it is not especially rigorous, and I firmly believe that a better assessment tool can be devised to gauge oppressive and pre-genocidal conditions. (Indeed, I have even done some preliminary work on such an assessment tool…though finishing and implementing it will require funding).

That being said, Genocide Watch does have a system, and using their system, they designated the Afrikaners’ circumstance as worthy of a Stage 6. But then, because of the color of the victims’ skin, they changed the assessment.

Doesn’t that rather defeat the purpose of being an organization that looks for genocides in the making?

This is appalling. If things get worse for Afrikaners in South Africa, Genocide Watch’s actions, and the pressure that prompted it, will be viewed by future history books as among the many evil things done in the lead-up to a genocide.

By way of example… In 1936, the United States, Canada, and Cuba all refused entry to the German ship the MS St. Louis and denied asylum to its 900 Jewish refugees—225 of whom later died in the Holocaust. I am not saying there will be a genocide of Afrikaners. But if there is, downplaying the plight of white South Africans will be seen, in hindsight, as that sort of act.

It won’t be known to everyone; it will just be one more event that historians point to as a sign of the inhumanity at work in a world in which the genocide occurred—just the way they do now with people of the past. Oh, look how terrible they were.

Except those people are the same sort of people who are alive today.

And that same sort of people are running the Episcopal Church.

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