Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.
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The belief in so-called ‘white genocide’, once an extreme-right view of neo-Nazis, is starting to gain ground in Australia and influence the rhetoric of politicians.
White supremacists push an agenda that have their followers believing they are in danger of extinction. But their ‘race suicide’ ideas are based on 100-year-old unscientific and racist research.
The idea of white victimhood played an important part in Donald Trump’s rise. The South African brand of white supremacy has made a tangible contribution to this narrative of victimhood.
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Lecturer Asian Studies (2004 - 2020), University of Tasmania
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee