:Anti-white racism
{{Short description|Discrimination and hostility towards white people}}
{{Distinguish|Reverse racism}}
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Anti-white racism is discriminatory sentiments and acts of hostility of a racist nature toward people racialized as White (especially those people from Europe and its diasporas). It can manifest in various forms, including but not limited to ethnic hatred, stereotyping, exclusion, or violence, and can occur in both overt and subtle ways. These notions and the use of the expression "anti-white racism" are an object of study in sociology, philosophy, political science and law, as well as a topic discussed in the media, by intellectuals and in the social sphere.
While anti-white racism is a topic of debate, it is often discussed in the context of systemic power dynamics, historical legacies of European colonialism, and contemporary social and political movements. The subject is contentious, with differing perspectives on its prevalence, impact, and comparison to other forms of racial discrimination. Examples of anti-white racism include attacks targeting white individuals and anti-white sentiments in post-apartheid South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as in some parts of Europe and North America.
Concepts and study
=In philosophy=
According to Magali Bessone, professor of political philosophy at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, if the phenomenon of racism is considered in a structural manner, then the notion of anti-white racism is not relevant "in societies where whites are in a position of domination. [Which] does not prevent the existence of individual behaviors that can be designated in this case as falling within the scope of racial hatred. And the definition of racism must probably be both individual and institutional."{{Cite news |last=Kodjo-Grandvaux |first=Séverine |date=2019-10-13 |title=Racisme : « La couleur demeure un marqueur de privilèges » |trans-title=Racism: "Color remains a marker of privilege" |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2019/10/13/racisme-la-couleur-demeure-un-marqueur-de-privileges_6015343_3212.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}}
According to Jorge L. A. Garcia, philosophy professor at Boston College, "the claim that Black racism is more dangerous than White in urban areas 'where blacks control power' may have little application in our nation", yet black racism is an "ugly phenomenon" and "damaging to the cause of racial justice."{{sfn|Garcia|1999|p=1–32}}{{sfn|Lentin|2018|p=400–414}}
=In social sciences=
Sociology studies racism by taking into account specific socio-historical contexts and the prior existence, in Western societies, of ideologies and policies that have historically given whites the role of the dominant race.{{sfn|Desmond, M.|Emirbayer, M.|2009|p=335–355}}{{sfn|Ansell|2013|p=75, 127, 129, 136}}{{sfn|Cashmore|Cashmore|Van Den Berghe|Banton|1996|p=322}} Researchers distinguish between what is racist behavior—rejection, anger, insults, aggression, etc.—of an individual nature, and the existence of systemic racism, i.e. racism that is embedded in the social organization.{{sfn|Feagin|2006}}
Pooja Sawrikar, a psychologist, and Ilan Katz, a social work researcher at the University of New South Wales, challenge the definition of racism which they summarize as "Racism = Prejudice + Power". Finding this approach reductionist, they refute definitions of racism based on social power, which they believe reduce racism to white supremacy in white-majority societies. Thus, the idea that only white people can be racist would be flawed and itself racist. Furthermore, they assert that this approach, which places white people at the center of any discourse on race, leads to impotence in the fight against racism. This helplessness would manifest itself in a feeling of guilt among white people, due to the fact that they cannot do anything individually against racism since they are oppressors by virtue of their skin color, and a feeling of helplessness among ethnic minorities, who would be forced to admit that racism is a condition that they cannot change. This approach would also encourage passivity, both among white people not participating in the anti-racist struggle, who would be content with their assigned role as the dominant group, and among racial minorities, who would reject any responsibility because of their minority status.{{sfn|Sawrikar|Katz|2010}}
French political scientist, sociologist and historian Pierre-André Taguieff considers that the notions of institutional racism, structural racism or systemic racism derive from the anti-racist definition of racism produced by revolutionary African-American activists at the end of the 1960s. According to him, these terms are not the expression of a conceptualization of racism, but "a symbolic weapon which consists of reducing racism to white racism supposed to be inherent to 'white society' or to 'white domination', the latter being the only form of racial domination recognized and denounced by neo-antiracists." With white society being conceptualized as intrinsically racist, "it follows that anti-white racism cannot exist. This is a fundamental article of faith of the new 'anti-racist' catechism."{{Cite web |last=Boucaud-Victoire |first=Kévin |date=2020-10-25 |title=Pierre-André Taguieff : "Ce pseudo-antiracisme rend la pensée raciale acceptable" |trans-title=Pierre-André Taguieff: "This pseudo-anti-racism makes racial thinking acceptable" |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/pierre-andre-taguieff-ce-pseudo-antiracisme-rend-la-pensee-raciale-acceptable |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}
French political scientist Laurent Bouvet argues that "so-called anti-racist activists who claim that 'anti-white' racism does not exist do so from a purely political perspective", writing that "racism is an anthropological phenomenon, both cultural and social, which affects all human societies." "Racism exists everywhere, in all social groups, and is expressed, practically or theoretically, against the 'Other' on the basis of an identity linked to skin color or ethno-cultural origin."{{Cite web |date=2019-09-06 |title=Laurent Bouvet: «En parlant de "culture blanche", Lilian Thuram diffuse un discours essentialiste» |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/laurent-bouvet-en-parlant-de-culture-blanche-lilian-thuram-diffuse-un-discours-essentialiste-20190906 |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}
For Daniel Sabbagh, research director at the Center for International Research (CERI) in Paris, racism can be understood from three points of view. The first is ideological racism, based on the hierarchy of races defined by a racialization of humanity. The second is attitudinal racism, the subject of studies in social psychology in particular, which conceives racism as a set of negative attitudes towards the racialized other. The third is systemic racism.{{Cite web |last=Sabbagh |first=Daniel |date=2020-11-16 |title=Le « racisme anti-Blancs » existe-t-il ? |trans-title=Does "anti-White racism" exist? |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/le-racisme-anti-blancs-existe-t-il/ |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Cogito |language=fr-FR}} The researcher believes that the use of the expression "anti-White racism" is not abusive to characterize, for example, the ideological or attitudinal racism inevitably produced in reaction to the racism suffered, without common measure, by non-Whites. He cites as examples the ideological speech of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), likening whites to demons, and the video of the French rapper Nick Conrad, entitled "Pendez les Blancs" (Hang the Whites). Daniel Sabbagh agrees that if we only consider systemic racism, as a conception of racism, then the expression "anti-white racism" is irrelevant. He believes, however, that racism must be studied in all its dimensions.
=In the media=
BBC News editor Mark Easton cites the Ross Parker murder case to argue that society has been forced to redefine racism and discard the definition of "prejudice plus power"—a definition which, in Easton's view, tends to only allow ethnic minorities to be victims and whites to be perpetrators. He states, "Describing an incident as racist may say as much about a victim's mindset as the offender. How else can one explain the British Crime Survey finding that 3,100 car thefts from Asians were deemed to be racially motivated?"{{cite news |last=Easton |first=Mark |date=8 November 2006 |title=Racism and race crime redefined |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6128466.stm |access-date=29 July 2011 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |location=London, UK}} Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown argues that the case highlights double standards of racial equality campaigners, suggesting black activists should "march and remember victims like Ross Parker ... our values are worthless unless all victims of these senseless deaths matter equally".{{cite news |last=Alibhai-Brown |first=Yasmin |date=3 February 2003 |title=Brown/Black racism is every bit as bad as white racism |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/black-racism-is-every-bit-as-bad-as-white-racism-596435.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131192554/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/black-racism-is-every-bit-as-bad-as-white-racism-596435.html |archive-date=31 January 2010 |access-date=28 July 2011 |newspaper=The Independent |publisher=Independent Print Limited |location=London, UK}} She writes, "to treat some victims as more worthy of condemnation than others is unforgivable and a betrayal of anti-racism itself".{{cite news |last=Alibhai Brown |first=Yasmin |date=26 October 2006 |title=When the victim is white, does anyone care? |newspaper=London Evening Standard |issn=2041-4404}}
In 2006, a Sunday Times investigation by Brendan Montague examined British newspaper archives for coverage of racist crimes, finding "an almost total boycott of stories involving the white victims of attacks" whereas "cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported".{{Cite news |last=Montague |first=Brendan |title=The hidden white victims of racism |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article633759.ece |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=London, UK |publisher=News UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629121149/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article633759.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |date=12 November 2006 |access-date=29 July 2011 |url-access=subscription}} The BBC Editorial Standards Committee in 2007 found that "there was no evidence to suggest that the BBC had shown a specific and systemic bias in favour of cases where the victim had been black or Asian", but accepted it had "underplayed its coverage of the Ross Parker case" and repeated the failings in its coverage of the murder of Kriss Donald.{{cite web |url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/appeals/esc_bulletins/30oct07.pdf |title=Editorial Standards Findings: Appeals to the Trust and other editorial standards matters considered by the Editorial Standards Committee |publisher=The BBC Trust |date=30 October 2007 |access-date=2 May 2014 |page=3}}
Following violent acts during French high school demonstrations on March 8, 2005, and their media coverage, journalist Luc Bronner's article in the newspaper Le Monde, entitled "High school student demonstrations: the specter of anti-white violence"{{Cite news |date=2005-03-15 |title=Manifestations de lycéens : le spectre des violences anti-"Blancs" |trans-title=High school demonstrations: the spectre of anti-"White" violence |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/a-la-une/article/2005/03/15/manifestations-de-lyceens-le-spectre-des-violences-anti-blancs_401648_3208.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}} caused a media-political controversy in France over the labeling of this violence as "anti-white".{{efn|This article mentioned the comments of young people from housing estates who claimed to have participated in the violence: "In the discourse of these young people, there were economic explanations ("making easy money"), playful explanations ("the pleasure of hitting") and a mixture of racism and social jealousy ("taking revenge on Whites")."}}{{Cite web |date=2005-03-31 |title=Un appel controversé contre le racisme "anti-blancs" |trans-title=A controversial appeal against "anti-white" racism |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20050326.OBS2271/un-appel-controverse-contre-le-racisme-anti-blancs.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Nouvel Obs |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2018-02-02 |title=Une association réveille le débat sur le « racisme anti-Blanc » |trans-title=An association revives the debate on "anti-white racism" |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/une-association-reveille-le-debat-sur-le-racisme-anti-blanc-02-02-2018-2191529_23.php |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Point |language=fr}} Following Luc Bronner's article, a number of personalities including Ghaleb Bencheikh, Alain Finkielkraut, Bernard Kouchner and Jacques Julliard, launched on March 25, 2005, an "Appeal against 'anti-White racial attacks'", initiated by the left-wing Zionist movement Hashomer Hatzair and the Jewish community radio station Radio Shalom.{{Cite news |date=2005-03-25 |title=Un appel est lancé contre les "ratonnades anti-Blancs" |trans-title=An appeal is launched against "anti-white racial attacks" |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2005/03/25/un-appel-est-lance-contre-les-ratonnades-anti-blancs_631439_3224.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}} A signatory of the appeal, Pierre-André Taguieff believes that the violence reveals the existence of anti-White racism in France, a reflection of a "racialization of social conflict" and that racism is not solely the work of Whites. Despite the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) considering the racist nature of the attacks to be proven,Licra, Appel contre "ratonnades anti-blancs" : polémique surprenante [Appeal against "anti-white racial attacks": surprising controversy] (in French), in AFP, 30 March 2005 several anti-racist organizations, such as SOS Racisme, the MRAP and the Human Rights League (LDH), denounced the appeal as "irresponsible".
=In law enforcement=
Peter Fahy, the former spokesman on race issues for the British Association of Chief Police Officers said: "A lot of police officers and other professionals feel almost the best thing to do is to try and avoid [discussing such attacks] for fear of being criticised. This is not healthy". He added that "it was a fact that it was harder to get the media interested where murder victims were young white men".{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/22/ukcrime.race |location=London |work=The Guardian |title=Racial murders: nearly half the victims are white |first=Antony |last=Barnett |date=22 October 2006}} Montague suggests the lack of police appeals in cases involving white victims may be a cause of the lack of media coverage. Evidence of this was seen in the Parker case, with the police initially appearing keen to dismiss the possible racist aspect of the murder, stating "there was no reason to believe that the attack was racially motivated".{{cite news |title=Teenager beaten to death |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1555927.stm |work=BBC News |location=London |publisher=BBC |date=21 September 2001 |access-date=25 April 2014}}
Origin of the expression
="Anti-white racism"=
According to Emmanuel Debono, doctor of contemporary history at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the first major controversies surrounding "anti-white racism" around the world took place in the 1960s in response to the Congo Crisis, particularly in France.{{sfn|Debono|2020}}
Pierre-André Taguieff notes that the expression "anti-white racism" appears in the book Racism in the World (1964) by Pierre Paraf, president of the MRAP, at the time a "Third World organization of communist obedience", according to the political scientist. In his book, Paraf asserted, with regard to certain behaviors among African and Asian peoples formerly colonized by Europeans, that "the very nature of racism implies that it is no more foreign to 'men of color' than to whites." The president of the MRAP then emphasized his point: "Anti-Jewish racism, anti-black racism, anti-white racism... whether collective or individual, racism remains one of the great evils from which mankind suffers today."{{sfn|Taguieff|2015|p=160–161}} Taguieff notes that the National Front has effectively instrumentalized the denunciation of "anti-white racism" in France by making it "one of its propaganda themes, and some far-right publicists have seized on the theme in order to criminalize immigration of non-European origin." However, the political scientist stresses that the expression should not be considered "contaminated by its Le Penist use" in order to deny or minimize "the reality of the phenomenon", or to intimidate those who evoke anti-white racism.{{sfn|Taguieff|2015|p=168–169}}
="Reverse racism against whites"=
The expression "reverse racism against whites" has been used in Zimbabwe to refer to anti-white violence and the ideology of the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) in the early 2000s, which portrayed whites as enemies of the state, who had to be crushed, and who had to prove their loyalty to it by denouncing their supposed countries of origin, even if they had fought against colonization.{{Cite web |format=pdf |author=Alois S. Mlambo |institution=University of Pretoria |title=Becoming Zimbabwe or Becoming Zimbabwean: identity, nationalism and state building in the historical context of Southern Africa [Inaugural Lecture presented at the University of Pretoria, South Africa on 30 October 2012] |url=https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/20491/Mlambo_paper_2012.pdf |website=repository.up.ac.za |date=30 October 2012 |access-date=15 March 2025 |page=15}} As such, it should not be confused with so-called "reverse racism", a term used by opponents of affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality, in the United States and abroad.{{efn|According to Ansell, "Reverse racism is a concept commonly associated with conservative opposition to affirmative action and other color-conscious victories of the civil rights movement in the United States and anti-racist movements abroad. While traditional forms of racism involve prejudice and discrimination on the part of whites against blacks, reverse racism is alleged to be a new form of anti-white racism practiced by blacks and/or the so-called civil rights establishment (alternately referred to as the anti-racism industry)."{{sfn|Ansell|2013|p=135}}}}
By country
=France=
{{Further|Racism in France#Racism against white people}}
File:Example of anti-white racism in France.jpg on a door in France. The text reads: "Here we are racists toward whites and not solidary".]]
Claims of racism against whites in France have been brought forward by various far-right parties,{{Cite news |last1=Mestre |first1=Abel |last2=Monnot |first2=Caroline |date=2012-09-26 |title=Comment l'extrême droite a fait du "racisme anti-blanc" une arme politique |trans-title=How the far right turned "anti-white racism" into a political weapon |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2012/09/26/comment-l-extreme-droite-a-fait-du-racisme-anti-blanc-une-arme-politique_5981843_823448.html |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}} and other groups beginning in the 1980s,{{sfn|Möschel|2014|p=119}} including from the right and left. In September 2012, Jean-François Copé, the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), and then incumbent for his reelection, denounced the development of an anti-white prejudice by people living in France, some of them French citizens, against the "Gauls", a name among immigrants for the native French, according to him, on the basis of these having a different religion, color skin, and ethnic background.{{Cite news |date=2012-09-27 |title=«Racisme anti-blanc» : Copé persiste et signe |trans-title="Anti-white racism": Copé is sticking to his guns |url=https://www.liberation.fr/france/2012/09/27/racisme-anti-blanc-cope-persiste-et-signe_849223/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=Libération |language=fr}}{{Cite news |last=Copé |first=Jean-François |date=2012-09-26 |title=Copé dénonce l'existence d'un «racisme anti-Blanc» |trans-title=Copé denounces the existence of "anti-White racism" |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2012/09/26/01002-20120926ARTFIG00428-cope-denonce-l-existence-d-un-racisme-anti-blanc.php |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=Le Figaro |language=fr}}{{Cite news |date=2012-10-08 |title=Les modérés de l'UMP avalent difficilement le pain au chocolat de Copé |trans-title=UMP moderates find Copé's pain au chocolat hard to swallow |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/politique/les-moderes-de-l-ump-avalent-difficilement-le-pain-au-chocolat-de-cope_1171560.html |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=L'Express |language=fr}}Bruno Roger-Petit, [http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/632633-racisme-anti-blanc-comment-jean-francois-cope-nous-a-tendu-un-piege-redoutable.html "Racisme anti-blanc" : comment Jean-François Copé nous a tendu un piège redoutable] ["Anti-white racism": how Jean-François Copé set a terrible trap for us], Le Nouvel Obs (in French), 26 September 2012 The former Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, went on record stating that this kind of racism is a reality in France and that there is nothing worse than the political elite hiding from the truth. When questioned on the subject, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, a Socialist, acknowledged that such racism "can exist"; however, he indicated that one must be "very careful when using words of this nature", warning against "a kind of chase behind the ideas of the National Front".{{Cite web |date=2012-09-27 |title=Racisme anti-blanc: "ça peut exister", mais "je suis contre les communautarismes", indique Ayrault |trans-title=Anti-white racism: "it can exist", but "I'm against communitarianism", says Ayrault |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/racisme-anti-blanc-ca-peut-exister-mais-je-suis-contre-les-communautarismes-indique-ayrault-27-09-2012-1511033_23.php |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Point |language=fr}} His government's Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, echoed this view when, in her book Raison de plus! (2012), she called on everyone to recognize the reality of such racism and to condemn it like all others. In December 2023, when questioned about the Crépol attack that led to the death of Thomas Perotto, former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe considered that it is "quite possible that there is a new form of anti-white racism" in France.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-10 |title=Edouard Philippe juge "bien possible qu'il y ait une forme nouvelle de racisme anti-Blancs" en France |trans-title=Edouard Philippe considers it "quite possible that there is a new form of anti-white racism" in France |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/edouard-philippe-juge-bien-possible-qu-il-y-ait-une-forme-nouvelle-de-racisme-anti-blancs-en-france_6234693.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2023-12-10 |title=Crépol : «Il est bien possible qu'il y ait une forme nouvelle de racisme anti-Blancs», dit Édouard Philippe |trans-title=Crépol: "It is quite possible that there is a new form of anti-white racism," says Édouard Philippe |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/crepol-il-est-bien-possible-qu-il-y-ait-une-forme-nouvelle-de-racisme-anti-blancs-dit-edouard-philippe-20231210 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}} This opinion was shared by Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who added that "Not saying [that this racism] exists is not telling the truth."{{Cite web |last=Desmonceaux |first=Juliette |date=2023-12-11 |title=Gérald Darmanin partage l'avis d'Édouard Philippe sur l'existence d'un "racisme contre les blancs" |trans-title=Gérald Darmanin shares Édouard Philippe's opinion on the existence of "racism against whites" |url=https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/gouvernement/gerald-darmanin-partage-l-avis-d-edouard-philippe-sur-l-existence-d-un-racisme-contre-les-blancs_AV-202312110348.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=BFMTV |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=Darras |first=Yanis |date=2023-12-11 |title=Racisme anti-blanc : «Ne pas dire qu'il existe, c'est ne pas dire la vérité», juge Gérald Darmanin |trans-title=Anti-white racism: "Not saying it exists is not telling the truth," says Gérald Darmanin |url=https://www.europe1.fr/politique/racisme-anti-blanc-ne-pas-dire-quil-existe-cest-ne-pas-dire-la-verite-juge-gerald-darmanin-4219286 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=europe1.fr |language=fr}} In March 2025, Government spokesperson Sophie Primas said she has "no shame" in evoking the existence of "anti-white racism."{{Cite web |date=2025-03-23 |title=La porte-parole du gouvernement, Sophie Primas, dit n'avoir "pas de pudeur" à évoquer l'existence du concept contesté de "racisme anti-blanc" |trans-title=Government spokesperson Sophie Primas says she has "no shame" in evoking the existence of the contested concept of "anti-white racism." |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/la-porte-parole-du-gouvernement-sophie-primas-dit-n-avoir-pas-de-pudeur-a-evoquer-l-existence-du-concept-conteste-de-racisme-anti-blanc_7147062.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Franceinfo |language=fr-FR}} Later that month, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), declared: "Of course [anti-white racism] exists", for which he was criticized.{{Cite web |title=Fabien Roussel évoque un «racisme anti-blanc», LFI condamne |trans-title=Fabien Roussel evokes "anti-white racism", LFI condemns |url=https://www.liberation.fr/politique/fabien-roussel-evoque-un-racisme-anti-blanc-lfi-condamne-20250326_YEQC3QCIKNEW3NF5UEVKSDJFIA/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Libération |language=fr}}{{Cite news |date=2025-03-26 |title=Fabien Roussel évoque le « racisme anti-Blancs », et s'attire les critiques de LFI |trans-title=Fabien Roussel evokes "anti-white racism" and attracts criticism from LFI |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/03/26/fabien-roussel-evoque-le-racisme-anti-blanc-sur-cnews-et-s-attire-les-critiques-de-lfi_6586256_823448.html |access-date=2025-03-28 |language=fr}}
==Legal cases==
French law does not categorize racist offenses according to the victim's ethnic origin; the judicial treatment of such offenses never includes the term "anti-white" in the qualification of the incriminating facts. However, the press sometimes uses the term when reporting on court cases involving racism against a white victim.{{Cite web |date=2012-10-26 |title=Racisme anti-blanc: Une «affaire symbolique» jugée à Paris |trans-title=Anti-white racism: A "symbolic case" goes to trial in Paris |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1030248-20121026-racisme-anti-blanc-affaire-symbolique-jugee-paris |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=20 Minutes |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2012-10-26 |title=Le racisme anti-Blanc en procès |trans-title=Anti-white racism on trial |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/le-racisme-anti-blanc-en-proces-26-10-2012-1521483_23.php |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Point |language=fr}} For example, in December 2012, the Criminal Court of Versailles sentenced an individual who had called his neighbor a "dirty white woman". Found guilty of "public insults of a racist nature", he was sentenced to a two-month suspended prison sentence with a two-year probation period.{{Cite web |date=2012-12-17 |title=Deux mois avec sursis pour avoir traité sa voisine de «sale blanche» |trans-title=Two-month suspended sentence for calling his neighbor a "dirty white woman". |url=https://www.liberation.fr/societe/2012/12/17/deux-mois-avec-sursis-pour-avoir-insulte-de-sale-blanche_868343/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Libération |language=fr}} In January 2014, a case of assault on a public road, during which insults such as "dirty white" or "dirty French" were uttered, went on trial. At the end of the trial, the Court of Appeal of Paris upheld the aggravating circumstance of "racism".{{Cite news |date=2014-01-22 |title=Première condamnation pour racisme « anti-Blanc » |trans-title=First conviction for "anti-white" racism |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2014/01/22/premiere-condamnation-pour-racisme-anti-blanc_4352323_3224.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2014-01-22 |title=Le racisme anti-blanc, circonstance aggravante d'une agression à Paris |trans-title=Anti-white racism, an aggravating circumstance in a Paris assault |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-racisme-anti-blanc-circonstance-aggravante-de-l-agression-22-01-2014-3516835.php |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}} In March 2016, the Court of Appeal of Lyon increased the first instance sentence of an individual convicted of racial insults by three months in prison. The defendant had called a train passenger a "dirty white man, dirty Frenchman.".{{Cite web |last=Mag |first=Lyon |date=2015-07-09 |title=Rhône : un jeune condamné à Villefranche pour du racisme "anti-blanc" |trans-title=Rhône: young man sentenced in Villefranche for "anti-white" racism |url=https://www.lyonmag.com/article/74246/rhone-un-jeune-condamne-a-villefranche-pour-du-racisme-anti-blanc |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Lyon Mag |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2016-04-01 |title=Trois mois ferme pour du racisme anti-blanc |trans-title=Three months in jail for anti-white racism |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/04/01/01016-20160401ARTFIG00315-trois-mois-ferme-pour-du-racisme-anti-blanc.php |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2016-04-02 |title=Lyon - racisme anti-blanc. Condamnation alourdie par rapport à celle du tribunal de Villefranche |url=https://www.leprogres.fr/lyon/2016/04/02/condamnation-alourdie-par-rapport-a-celle-du-tribunal-de-villefranche |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.leprogres.fr |language=FR-fr}} Following the appeal judgment, Alain Jakubowicz, the president of the anti-racist association LICRA, declared that "all forms of racism are condemnable, wherever they come from and regardless of the victim's skin color, origin or religion. While anti-white racism is a relatively marginal phenomenon compared to other forms of racism or antisemitism, it must be subject to the same rigor and reprobation."{{Cite web |last=Mathiot |first=Cédric |date=2018-09-27 |title=Y a-t-il déjà eu des condamnations en France pour «racisme anti-blanc»? |trans-title=Have there ever been convictions in France for "anti-white racism"? |url=https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/09/27/y-a-t-il-deja-eu-des-condamnations-en-france-pour-racisme-anti-blanc_1681527/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Libération |language=fr}}
In September 2018, French rapper Nick Conrad broadcast on the web a song and video called "Pendez les Blancs" (Hang the Whites), for which he was later prosecuted.{{Cite news |last=McAuley |first=James |date=2018-09-27 |title=A black French rapper sang about hanging 'the whites.' He may now be prosecuted. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-black-french-rapper-sang-about-hanging-the-whites-he-may-now-be-prosecuted/2018/09/27/93482f68-c24e-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{cite news |date=19 May 2019 |title=Nick Conrad fait à nouveau polémique avec «Doux pays», la justice est saisie |trans-title=Nick Conrad creates a new controversy with "Doux pays", courts are called |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/apres-pendez-les-blancs-nick-conrad-fait-polemique-avec-doux-pays-19-05-2019-8075193.php |access-date=14 December 2021 |work=Le Parisien |language=French}}{{cite news |last1=Laurent |first1=Samuel |date=26 September 2018 |title=« Pendez les Blancs », itinéraire d'une indignation |trans-title="Hang the Whites", diary of an uproar |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/09/26/pendez-les-blancs-itineraire-d-une-indignation_5360684_4355770.html |access-date=14 December 2021 |work=Le Monde |language=French}} In particular, the judges found that "the terms of the song, accompanied by violent and brutal images, directly incite the Internet user to commit attacks on the lives of white people".{{Cite web |date=2019-05-19 |title=Avec son nouveau clip, le rappeur Nick Conrad provoque des réactions indignées |trans-title=With his new video, rapper Nick Conrad provokes outraged reactions |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/avec-son-nouveau-clip-le-rappeur-nick-conrad-provoque-des-reactions-indignees_2079079.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}
==Public opinion==
In a sociological survey conducted in 2008 by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), which never uses the expression "anti-white racism", it appears that 16% of the majority population of France, i.e. the white population, say they have been the victim of a "racist situation", compared to 32% for immigrants and 36% for descendants of immigrants. 23% of the majority population say they "have not experienced a racist situation but feel exposed to it", compared to 29% for immigrants and 25% for descendants of immigrants. In addition, 10% of people of European origin say they have suffered racist discrimination in the last five years, compared to 26% for immigrants, 31% for descendants of two immigrant parents and 17% for descendants of one immigrant parent. The most reported grounds for discrimination by the majority population are 18% related to origin, compared to 70% for immigrants and 65% for descendants of immigrants.Christelle Hamel, Expérience et perception des discriminations et du racisme {{in lang|fr}}, in Trajectoires et Origines, Ined-Insee, 2008
In 2012, INED published a new survey conducted between September 2008 and February 2009 on people born between 1948 and 1990, which showed that 18% of people belonging to the "majority population" said they had been "the target of racist insults, remarks or attitudes" compared to 30% for immigrants and 37% for descendants of immigrants.Patrick Simon and Vincent Tiberj, Les immigrés et leurs descendants face à l'identité nationale {{in lang|fr}}, in Les registres de l'identité, Work documents no. 176, Ined, 2012 However, a study by the same institute concluded in 2016 that the phenomenon was "not a mass experience": "Racism by minorities against majorities can be verbally offensive, or even physically aggressive, but it is not systematic and does not produce social inequalities."{{Cite web |language=fr |title=Trajectoires et origines |url=https://www.ined.fr/fr/publications/editions/grandes-enquetes/trajectoires-et-origines/ |website=Ined - Institut national d'études démographiques |access-date=2025-01-11}} The same year, Jean-Luc Primon, a sociologist at the University of Nice and researcher at the Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS), participating in the TEO survey, the first INED database on origins, declared that a little more than one person in ten of those classified in the so-called "majority" population (neither immigrants, nor from immigration, nor from overseas) declared having experienced racism.{{Cite news |date=2012-09-27 |author=Interview of Jean-Luc Primon by Sylvia Zappi |title="Il y a une ethnicisation des rapports sociaux en France" |trans-title="There is an ethnicization of social relations in France" |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2012/09/27/il-y-a-une-ethnicisation-des-rapports-sociaux-en-france_1766672_823448.html |work=Le Monde |access-date=2025-01-27 |language=fr}}
A 2022 survey found that 80% of French people believe that anti-white racism is present in some French communities.{{Cite news |date=2022-10-05 |title=D'après un sondage exclusif de l'institut CSA pour CNEWS, publié ce mercredi 5 octobre, 80% des Français interrogés pensent qu'un racisme anti-blanc existe en France, dans certaines communautés. |trans-title="According to an exclusive survey by the CSA institute for CNEWS, published this Wednesday, October 5, 80% of French people questioned think that anti-white racism exists in France, in certain communities." |url=https://www.cnews.fr/france/2022-10-05/sondage-8-personnes-sur-10-pensent-quil-y-du-racisme-anti-blanc-en-france-dans |work=CNEWS}}
=Haiti=
{{Further|1804 Haitian massacre}}
The massacres of almost the entire white population in Haiti in 1804, also referred to as the Haitian genocide,{{sfn|Girard|2005a|p=158–159}}{{sfn|Moses|Stone|2013|p=63}}{{sfn|Forde|2020|p=40}} which marked the end of the Haitian Revolution,{{sfn|Rogers|2010|p=353}}{{sfn|Orizio|2001|p=149, 157–159}} have been partially explained in the context of anti-white racism.{{sfn|Girard|2005a|p=138–161}} On 22 February 1804, revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines signed a decree ordering that all French people still residing in the country should be put to death.{{sfn|Blancpain|2003|p=7}} Dessalines' secretary Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre complained that the declaration of independence was not aggressive enough, saying that "...we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!".{{sfn|Girard|2005a}}
The people chosen to be killed were targeted primarily based on three criteria: "skin color, citizenship and vocation." While some whites, such as Poles and Germans who were granted citizenship and "a few non-French veterans and American merchants, along with some useful professionals such as priests and doctors" were spared, political affiliation was not considered.{{sfn|Girard|2005a}} The white victims were almost entirely French, commensurate with their share in the white population of Haiti. About his targets of the massacre, Dessalines' slogan exemplified his mission to eradicate the white population with the saying "Break the eggs, take out the [sic] yoke [a pun on the word 'yellow' which means both yoke and mulatto] and eat the white."{{sfn|Girard|2005a}} Upper class whites were not the only target; any white of any socioeconomic status was also to be killed, including the urban poor known as petits blancs (little whites).{{sfn|Girard|2005a|p=139}} During the massacre, stabbing, beheading, and disemboweling were common.{{sfn|Pezzullo|2006|p=53}}
Historian Philippe R. Girard also states that if, after 1804 and throughout the 19th century, the presence of whites in the country was negligible, they were perceived, in particular by Haitian nationalists, with an antipathy that amounted to racism, excluding alliances with countries with generally white populations such as the United States and European countries, or considered too light-skinned, such as the Dominican Republic. The black population, a large majority (90% at the beginning of the 19th century), tended to consider themselves the only true Haitian population, calling themselves "authentic", with the exception of the mulattos, who were viewed with great suspicion because of their French fathers as well as their frequent possession of slaves before independence. The word blan, meaning "white man", came to designate the foreigner, and carried a negative connotation that that of neg, literally "negro", did not have.{{sfn|Girard|2005b|p=55–75}}
=South Africa=
{{Further|Racism in South Africa#Racism against white Africans|Shoot the Boer}}
Democratic Alliance MP Gwen Ngwenya states that racism aimed at white people in South Africa is often overlooked compared to racism aimed at black people, noting that racism aimed at white people elicits little reaction from the populace.{{Cite news|url=http://thoughtleader.co.za/amandangwenya/2016/01/07/racist-black-south-africans-who-kept-their-jobs%E2%80%A8/|title='Racist' black South Africans who kept their jobs?|last=Ngwenya|first=Gwen|date=2016-01-07|work=The Mail & Guardian|access-date=2017-04-12}} According to a comparative study by the trade union Solidarity, South African media give more attention to white-on-black racism, and the South African Human Rights Commission is much more likely to self-initiate investigations into white-on-black racism and is more lenient in cases of black-on-white racism.{{Cite news|url=http://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/how-the-response-to-black-and-white-racism-differs|title=How the response to black and white racism differs – Solidarity|last1=Brink|first1=Eugene|date=2017-04-05|work=Politicsweb|access-date=2017-04-12|last2=Mulder|first2=Connie|language=en-US}}
Milton Shain, professor emeritus of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, noted that Indian, Coloureds, and white minorities are increasingly being scapegoated by South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC).{{Cite journal|last=Shain|first=Milton|title=Racial and Populist Nationalism in South Africa: the Global Nexus|journal=The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation|volume=80|date=August 2017|url=https://hsf.org.za/publications/focus/focus-80-nationalism-and-populism-2/focus80-shain.pdf}} In 2001, former South African president Nelson Mandela criticized the growing racial intolerance of black South Africans in their attitudes toward South Africans of other racial groups.{{Cite web |date=2001-03-03 |title=Mandela accuses ANC of racism and corruption |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1324909/Mandela-accuses-ANC-of-racism-and-corruption.html |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}
After a black person was allegedly killed by two white people, businesses and properties owned by white people and other minorities in Coligny were targeted for destruction by members of the black community.{{Cite web|first=Jeanette |last=Chabalala|title='I don't own anything of my own' - Coligny woman who lost home in protests|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/i-dont-own-anything-of-my-own-coligny-woman-who-lost-home-in-protests-20170628|access-date=2021-07-22|website=News24|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Malan|first=Rian|title=Coligny: The shape of things to come?|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/Columnists/GuestColumn/the-shape-of-things-to-come-20170509|access-date=2021-07-22|website=News24|language=en-US}}
==Anti-white hate-speech==
File:Julius Malema 2011-09-14.jpg, the youth leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, was found guilty of hate speech for singing "Shoot the Boer" at a number of public events.Staff reporters (11 September 2011). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/12/julius-malema-guilty-hate-speech?INTCMP=SRCH "ANC's youth leader found guilty of hate speech for Shoot the Boer song"]. The Guardian. Retrieved 11 September 2011.]]
The F.W. de Klerk Foundation reported that there are social media posts inciting extreme violence against white South Africans, and these posts come mostly from black South Africans. It appealed to the South African Human Rights Commission to intervene on the issue of racism and hate speech against white South Africans. Its complaint to the commission detailed "45 social media postings that incite extreme violence against White South Africans." The foundation also said "an analysis of Facebook and Twitter messages shows that by far the most virulent and dangerous racism – expressed in the most extreme and violent language – has come from disaffected Black South Africans. The messages are replete with threats to kill all whites – including children; to rape white women or to expel all whites from South Africa."{{Cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/blacks-more-racist-than-whites-1971898|title='Blacks more racist than whites' {{!}} IOL News|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en}}
According to Sharlene Swartz, a research specialist of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), discourses expressing violent resentment towards white populations in South Africa are widespread, citing as an example student protests during which the inscription "Fuck White People" appeared on t-shirts and walls.{{Cite journal |first1=Sharlene |last1=Swartz |first2=Anye-Nkwenti |last2=Nyamnjoh |first3=Benjamin |last3=Roberts |first4=Steven |last4=Gordon |title=The 'Fuck White People' Phenomenon in South Africa: A Discursive and Statistical Analysis |journal=Politikon |volume=47 |number=2 |date=2020-04-02 |issn=0258-9346 |doi=10.1080/02589346.2020.1715159 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2020.1715159 |p=136–158 }}
A Gauteng government official, Velaphi Khumalo, stated on Facebook "White people in South Africa deserve to be hacked and killed like Jews. [You] have the same venom. Look at Palestine. [You] must be [burnt] alive and skinned and your [offspring] used as garden fertiliser".{{Cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/khumalo-in-firing-line-over-white-genocide-1968041|title=Khumalo in firing line over 'white genocide' {{!}} Cape Times|access-date=2018-04-03|language=en}} A complaint was lodged at the Human Rights Commission, and a charge of crimen injuria was laid at the Equality Court. In October 2018, he was found guilty of hate speech by the court, for which he was ordered to issue an apology.{{Cite news |last=Makhafola |first=Getrude |date=2018-10-05 |title=ANALYSIS: Velaphi Khumalo found guilty of hate speech {{!}} Weekend Argus |language=en-ZA |work=IOL |agency=African News Agency |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/velaphi-khumalo-found-guilty-of-hate-speech-17366497 |access-date=2019-07-02}}
In March 2018, a screenshot depicting EFF Ekurhuleni leader Mampuru Mampuru calling for racial violence on Facebook began to circulate on social media. The post read, "We need to unite as black People, there are less than 5 million whites in South Africa vs 45 million of us. We can kill all this white within two weeks. We have the army and the police. If those who are killing farmers can do it what are you waiting for. Shoot the boer, kill the farmer." [sic]. Mampuru claims the screenshot was fabricated in an attempt to discredit the EFF, further adding that "Without white people in the country‚ we are not going to have a Rainbow Nation."{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-03-21-eff-councillor-loves-his-white-friends-and-would-never-call-for-their-genocide/|title=EFF councillor 'loves' his white friends and would never call for their genocide|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US}}
After 76-year-old white professor Cobus Naude was murdered in 2018, black senior SANDF officer Major M.V. Mohlala posted a comment on Facebook in reaction to Naude's murder, stating "It is your turn now, white people… [he] should have had his eyes and tongue cut out so that the faces of his attackers would be the last thing he sees".{{Cite news|url=http://www.sabreakingnews.co.za/2018/03/30/ff-plus-gunning-for-sandf-major-after-racist-rant/|title=FF Plus gunning for SANDF Major, after racist rant – SA Breaking News|date=2018-03-30|work=SA Breaking News|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US}} Mohlala received a warning of potential future disciplinary action by the SANDF.{{Cite web|url=http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/minister-must-take-stronger-action-against-sandf-m|title=SANDF fails to act against murderously anti-white major – Kobus Marais – POLITICS {{!}} Politicsweb|website=www.politicsweb.co.za|language=en|access-date=2018-04-10}} Subsequently, Ernst Roets of AfriForum contrasted Mohlala's punishment against that of convicted white racist Vicki Momberg, stating, "The inconsistency being applied in this country regarding minorities has reached the level of absurdity... The reality in South Africa is that a white person who insults a black person goes to prison, while a senior officer in the defence force who says white people's eyes and tongues must be stabbed out is simply asked nicely not to repeat it."{{Cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/victory-against-racism-14147567|title=Victory against racism {{!}} Saturday Star|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en}}
A photograph emerged of a University of Cape Town student who wore a shirt that read "Kill All Whites" in a residence dining hall during early 2016.{{cite web|title=UCT: 'Kill all whites' T-shirt is hate speech|url=https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/uct-kill-all-whites-t-shirt-is-hate-speech-20160211|website=News24|access-date=11 April 2018|language=en}} The university later identified the wearer as Slovo Magida and reported the matter to SAPS and HRC.{{cite web|title='Kill all whites' T-shirt culprit identified – UCT|url=https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/kill-all-whites-t-shirt-culprit-identified-uct-20160212|website=News24|access-date=11 April 2018|language=en}} During a parliamentary debate on racism, Pieter Mulder of the FF+ read out the contents of the shirt, to which some MPs shouted "Yes! Yes!".{{cite web|title='Kill all whites' drama in SA National Assembly|url=https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/113145/kill-all-whites-drama-in-sa-national-assembly/|website=BusinessTech|access-date=11 April 2018}} As of 2018, no further action against Magida has been taken.
In April 2018, a Judicial Services Commission tribunal found that Nkola Motala's racist comments could justify his removal as a judge. Motala crashed into a wall while driving under the influence of alcohol in 2007. After the accident, Motala swore at a white onlooker, Richard Baird, and referred to him as a "boer".{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-04-17-breaking--racist-motata-should-be-removed-as-a-judge/|title='Drunk judge' Motata faces impeachment over racism' lack of integrity|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en-US}}
Julius Malema, leader of the third-largest party, Economic Freedom Fighters, stated at a political rally in 2016 that "we [the EFF] are not calling for the slaughter of white people‚ at least for now". When asked for comment by a news agency, the ANC spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa, stated that there would be no comment from the ANC, as "[h]e [Malema] was addressing his own party supporters." This received backlash from many South Africans of all races.{{cite news|title=Malema slammed for comments on whites|url=http://www.enca.com/south-africa/malema-%E2%80%98slaughter-statement%E2%80%99-rocks-sa|access-date=30 May 2017|publisher=ENCA|date=8 November 2016}} While still the ANCYL leader, Malema was taken to the Equality Court by AfriForum for repeatedly singing "dubul' ibhunu", which literally translates as "shoot the boer [white farmer]." In context, this was sung as a struggle (against apartheid) song. At another political rally in 2018, he stated, "Go after a white Man... We are cutting the throat of whiteness." This was in reference to the removal of Athol Trollip, a white mayor, from office in Port Elizabeth.{{cite web|url=https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/we-are-cutting-the-throat-of-whiteness-malema-on-plans-to-remove-trollip-20180304|date=4 March 2018|title='We are cutting the throat of whiteness' – Malema on plans to remove Trollip|access-date=2025-01-27}} The opposition Democratic Alliance has accused the EFF leader of racism.{{Cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/south-africans-dont-share-malemas-racist-views-maimane-13714966|title=South Africans don't share Malema's racist views – Maimane {{!}} IOL News|access-date=2018-03-11|language=en}}
At the EFF's 10th anniversary rally in 2023, Malema again sang the song to an estimated 90,000 supporters{{cite web |date=1 August 2023 |title=South African opposition torn apart over apartheid song |url=https://www.africanews.com/2023/08/01/south-african-opposition-torn-apart-over-apartheid-song/ |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=Africanews |language=en}} at the FNB Stadium.{{cite web |last=Kgosana |first=Rorisang |date=2 August 2023 |title='I will sing 'Kill the Boer' as and when I please': Malema responds to struggle song outrage |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2023-08-02-i-will-sing-kill-the-boer-as-and-when-i-please-malema-responds-to-struggle-song-outrage/ |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=TimesLIVE |language=en-ZA}} The incident received international coverage with Elon Musk criticizing Malema on Twitter for singing the song, accusing him of "openly pushing for the genocide of white people in South Africa".{{cite web |last=Ditabo |first=Malaika |date=1 August 2023 |title=Elon Musk vs Julius Malema: EFF leader accused of inciting genocide with 'Kill the boer' song |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/political-parties/elon-musk-vs-julius-malema-eff-leader-accused-of-inciting-genocide-with-kill-the-boer-song-20230801 |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=News24 |language=en-US}}
In September 2018, Black First Land First (BLF) spokesperson Lyndsay Maasdorp told The Citizen reporter Daniel Friedman that, as a white person, his existence is "a crime". Maasdorp also posted on his now-suspended Twitter account in 2018: "I have aspirations to kill white people, and this must be achieved!".{{Cite news |url=https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/white-existence-is-a-crime-says-blf-spokesperson/ |title=White existence is a crime, says BLF spokesperson |last=Friedman |first=Daniel |work=The Citizen |access-date=19 September 2018 |language=en}} The BLF does not allow white people in the party.{{Citation |title=BLF Back {{!}} Whites still not allowed in the party: Mngxitama | date=5 February 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfanC6x_FoQ |language=en |access-date=2022-05-23}}
In December 2018, in response to comments made by Johann Rupert in support of the South African taxi industry, Mngxitama asserted at a BLF rally that "For each one person that is being killed by the taxi industry, we will kill five white people", giving rise to the BLF slogan "1:5".{{Cite web |url=https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/social-media/2051467/mngxitama-rejoins-twitter-only-to-be-banned-within-a-day/ |title=Mngxitama rejoins Twitter only to be banned within a day |last=Friedman |first=Daniel |date=20 December 2018 |website=The Citizen |language=en |access-date=13 January 2019}} Mngxitama went on to say, "You kill one of us, we will kill five of you. We will kill their children, we will kill their women, we will kill anything that we find on our way."{{cite web |author=Pijoos, Iavan |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-12-10-watch--you-kill-one-black-person-we-kill-five-white-people-blf-president/ |title='You kill one black person, we kill five white people' – BLF president |newspaper=Sunday Times |date=10 December 2018 |access-date=16 December 2018}} The comments were criticized by many, including the African National Congress, with an ANC spokesperson claiming that "[Mngxitama's] comments clearly incite violence in South Africa" and urging the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate.{{cite web |author=Gous, Nico |url=https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-12-12-mngxitama-trying-to-take-sa-back-to-dark-ages-of-apartheid-says-anc/ |title=Mngxitama trying to take SA back to 'dark ages of apartheid' says ANC |work=SowetanLIVE |publisher=Sowetan Live |access-date=16 December 2018}} The Congress of the People and Democratic Alliance also criticized the statements and filed criminal charges against Mngxitama for incitement of violence. Mngxitama's Twitter account was also suspended as a result.{{cite web |author=Nemakonde, Vhahangwele |url=https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/social-media/2048273/twitter-suspends-mngxitamas-account-after-kill-whites-threats-iec-assessing-what-to-do/ |title=Twitter suspends Mngxitama's account after 'kill whites' threats, IEC assessing what to do |date=11 December 2018 |publisher=The Citizen |access-date=16 December 2018}} In response, the BLF's deputy president, Zanele Lwana, responded that Mngxitama's comments were made in the context of self-defense and that "The only sin committed by BLF president is defending black people. President Mngxitama correctly stated that for every one black life taken, five whites would be taken!"
In March 2022, the Equality Court of South Africa ordered BLF members Lindsay Maasdorp and Zwelakhe Dubasi to pay R200,000 in damages and make a public apology for "celebrat[ing] the tragic deaths"{{Cite web |last=GroundUp |first=Tania Broughton for |date=2022-03-07 |title=GROUNDUP: Court orders Black First Land First to pay up for hate speech social media posts that vilified white people |url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-03-07-court-orders-black-first-land-first-to-pay-up-for-hate-speech-social-media-posts-that-vilified-white-people/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Daily Maverick |language=en}} of four children on social media in statements that were judged to be hate speech. The four children, all of whom were white, died when a walkway collapsed at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark.
==Public opinion==
In a 2018 survey by the South African Institute of Race Relations, white people were the ethnic group that most often reports having been the victim of racism, with 53% of respondents, compared to 47% of Coloureds, 23% of blacks and 20% of Indians. Anti-white tendencies were also reported in the workplace, with 31% of the population favoring hiring preference for blacks over whites, with only 16% of Indians, 13% of Coloureds, and 9% of whites agreeing, compared to 38% of blacks.{{Cite web |last=Jeffery |first=Anthea |title=Race rhetoric undermining race relations in SA - Institute of Race Relations |url=https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/race-rhetoric-undermining-race-relations-in-sa--ir |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=www.politicsweb.co.za |language=en}}
=United Kingdom=
{{Further|Racism in the United Kingdom#White}}
==Racially motivated violence==
There have been incidents of violence in the United Kingdom where individuals have attacked white people due to hatred or as a form of racial retaliation. In 1994, Richard Norman Everitt, a 15-year-old white English teenager, was stabbed to death in London. Following ethnic tensions in his neighbourhood, Somers Town, Everitt was murdered by a gang of British Bangladeshis who were seeking revenge against another white boy. A judge described the killing as "an unprovoked racial attack".{{Cite web |title=At last, a fitting memorial for 15-year-old Richard Everitt |url=https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/at-last-a-fitting-memorial-for-15-year-old-richard-everitt |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Camden New Journal |language=en-gb}}{{Cite news |title=Gang leader gets life for killing boy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gang-leader-gets-life-for-killing-boy-1536715.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241126185743/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gang-leader-gets-life-for-killing-boy-1536715.html |archive-date=2024-11-26 |access-date=2025-01-07 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Topping |first=Alexandra |date=2024-09-30 |title='I need to own my narrative': man cleared of racist murder in 1995 on years of abuse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/30/man-acquitted-racist-murder-1995-abuse-abdul-hai |access-date=2025-01-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In 2001, Ross Parker, a 17-year-old white English teenager was murdered in Peterborough, in what has been described as an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He bled to death after being stabbed, beaten with a hammer and repeatedly kicked by a gang of British Pakistani men.{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Steven |date=2002-12-20 |title=Three get life in jail for racist killing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/dec/20/race.world |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=2002-12-19 |title=Three guilty of teenager's murder |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2590539.stm |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} The 2002 trial judge concluded that they had planned to find "a white male to attack simply because he was white" in the context of "hostility on the part of some of the younger white residents of the city against the Asian community".{{Cite web |date=30 January 2008 |title=R. v. Ahmed Ali Awan, [2008] EWHC 119 (QB) |url=http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/144_13295.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218200720/http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/144_13295.htm |archive-date=18 February 2011 |access-date=27 December 2011 |publisher=Her Majesty's Court Service}} In 2004, Kriss Donald, a 15-year-old white Scottish teenager was kidnapped, abused and murdered in Glasgow on the grounds of ethnicity. Four British Pakistani men were sentenced to life in prison for the crime, and admitted to choosing him because he was white.{{Cite news |last=Carrell |first=Severin |date=2006-11-09 |title=Three jailed for life for race murder of schoolboy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/09/race.ukcrime |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=2006-10-05 |title=Kriss attacked 'for being white' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5409734.stm |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2004-11-19 |title=Abducted, stabbed and set on fire for being white |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/abducted-stabbed-and-set-on-fire-for-being-white-2508810 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=The Scotsman |language=en}} In 2018, Ella Hill, a survivor of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, said she faced serious racial abuse by her attackers. Race was suggested as one of the factors involved in the failure to address the abuse.{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Ella |date=2018 |title=Voices. As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor. |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rotherham-grooming-gang-sexual-abuse-muslim-islamist-racism-white-girls-religious-extremism-terrorism-a8261831.html |website=The Independent}}
==Public opinion==
In 2019, a British government inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into racism in universities found that 9% of white British students reported experiencing racial harassment, including anti-English, anti-Welsh and anti-Scottish sentiments (compared to 29% of black students, 27% of Asian students and 22% of other non-white or mixed race students). Academics of color have criticized the Commission for including harassment against white students in the statistics, which they say shows a worrying misunderstanding of racism as it "minimises the racism by including groups who do not experience racial prejudice".{{Cite news |last=Batty |first=David |date=2019-10-23 |title=Universities failing to address thousands of racist incidents |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/23/universities-failing-to-address-thousands-of-racist-incidents |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Prominent academics and student leaders have criticized the Commission for "drawing a false equivalence between what it described as racial harassment against white British students and staff and the racism suffered by their black and minority ethnic peers". The EHRC did not respond to requests to remove anti-white harassment from the report, explaining that "its report made clear that racial harassment predominantly affects black and Asian students".{{Cite news |last=Batty |first=David |date=2019-10-23 |title=University racism study criticised for including anti-white harassment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/23/university-racism-study-criticised-including-anti-white-harassment |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
=United States=
{{Further|Racism in the United States#European Americans|Black supremacy}}
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There are black supremacists in the United States who advocate the superiority of the "black race", including organized groups such as the Nation of Islam (NOI) and the New Black Panther Party (NBPP). These groups have repeatedly been accused of stirring up racial hatred against whites.{{sfn|Barrett|2001|p=253}} The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) classifies the NBPP as a black separatist hate group{{Cite web |title=New Black Panther Party |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/new-black-panther-party |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}} and says that its leaders "have advocated the killing of Jews and white people",{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Erica |date=2016-07-24 |title=Who are the New Black Panthers? '60s radicals say new group doesn't embody their ideals |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-black-panthers-20160714-snap-story.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Desmond-Harris |first=Jenée |date=2014-11-16 |title=The New Black Panther Party, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/11/16/7217173/10-questions-you-were-afraid-to-ask-about-the-new-black-panther-party |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Vox |language=en-US}} while it describes the NOI as having a "theology of innate black superiority over whites".{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|title=Nation of Islam|website=Southern Poverty Law Center|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011080634/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|archive-date=2019-10-11|access-date=2019-10-16}} The NOI was notably represented by Malcolm X and Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who made anti-white speeches and called for the murder of white Americans and white South Africans.{{sfn|Gardell|1996|p=264}}Anti-Defamation League, [http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/3005_12.asp Adl Alerts Nation's Academic Leadership about Virus of Bigotry Being Spread by Khalid Abdul Muhammad], 1 July 1997{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/02/18/khalid-muhammad-dies-at-53/ac0d1a96-b2d0-4a80-a1af-cee4c7c5f0e0/ |title=Khalid Muhammad Dies at 53 |date=February 18, 2001 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 12, 2017 }} According to the NOI, whites were created 6,600 years ago as a "race of devils" by an evil scientist named Yakub,{{Cite web |title=Louis Farrakhan |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/louis-farrakhan/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en-US}} a story which originated with the founder of the NOI, Wallace D. Fard. The speeches of Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan, both leaders of the NOI, also often emphasized hatred of whites. For example, at an event in Milwaukee in August 2015, Farrakhan said: "White people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it's us coming to do it".{{cite web|date=August 31, 2015|title=Farrakhan Promotes Million Man March with Anti-Semitism & Bigotry|url=https://www.adl.org/blog/farrakhan-promotes-million-man-march-with-anti-semitism-bigotry|access-date=May 3, 2019|work=Anti-Defamation League|archive-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325163512/https://www.adl.org/blog/farrakhan-promotes-million-man-march-with-anti-semitism-bigotry|url-status=dead}}
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, a black supremacist group, founded and led by Dwight York,{{sfn|Palmer|2021a|p=343–353}}{{sfn|Palmer|2021b|p=694–723}} has been described by the SPLC as advocating the belief that black people are superior to white people. The SPLC reported that York's teachings included the belief that "whites are 'devils', devoid of both heart and soul, their color the result of leprosy and genetic inferiority".{{cite web |author=Bob Moser |title=United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors Meets Its Match in Georgia |work=Intelligence Report |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2002/united-nuwaubian-nation-moors-meets-its-match-georgia |date=20 September 2002 |access-date= 12 January 2025}}{{cite web |title=Nuwaubian Nation of Moors |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nuwaubian-nation-moors |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=5 March 2019 |language=en}} Another black supremacist group, the Nation of Yahweh, founded by Hulon Mitchell Jr., also known as Yahweh ben Yahweh, has been described by the SPLC as racist, stating that the group believes that Black people are the true Israelites and whites hold "wicked powers". The SPLC also claims that the group believes that Yahweh ben Yahweh had a Messianic mission to vanquish whites and that it held views similar to those of the Christian Identity movement, which believes that "Aryans" are the true Israelites and non-whites are devils. By 2007, the Nation of Yahweh had eliminated calls for violence and toned down its anti-white rhetoric, but remained black supremacist and antisemitic in its ideology.{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/miami-based-nation-yahweh-leader-appeals-parole|title=Miami-Based Nation of Yahweh Leader Appeals Parole|date=16 January 2007 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=12 September 2018}}
Proponents of the pseudoscientific "melanin theory" argue that whites suffer from a melanin deficiency that makes them inferior to blacks in athletic, intellectual and spiritual terms.{{sfn|De Montellano|1993|p=33–58}}{{sfn|Ferguson|2015|p=67}} According to Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, anthropology professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, this theory, which has been popular with some proponents of Afrocentrism and black supremacists, including professor of black studies Leonard Jeffries{{sfn|Morrow|2001|p=19}}{{sfn|Ferguson|2015|p=56}} and psychologist Frances Cress Welsing,{{sfn|Walker|2001|p=80}}{{sfn|Newkirk|2002|p=3}} "reactivates biological racism."{{sfn|De Montellano|1993|p=33–58}}
==Racially motivated violence==
In 2016, former soldier Micah Xavier Johnson perpetrated a shooting in Dallas during a peaceful march of blacks, with the aim of killing police officers as revenge following the recent shootings of black men by law enforcement. Among the motivations was the hatred that Johnson felt for whites.{{cite news |title=Dallas Police shed light on gunman's possible motives |work=ABC News |date=July 8, 2016 |access-date=July 10, 2016 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/dallas-police-shed-light-gunmans-motives-40431927 |quote=The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings.The suspect said he was upset with white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill racist white people, especially white officers.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-spawn-cities-across-u-s-over-police-shootings-black-n605686|title=Dallas Police 'Ambush': 12 Officers Shot, 5 Killed During Protest|work=NBC News|date=July 7, 2016|access-date=July 7, 2016|first1=F. Brinley|last1=Bruton|first2=Alexander |last2=Smith |first3=Elizabeth |last3=Chuck|first4=Phil|last4=Helsel}}{{cite news|last1=Shapiro |first1=Emily |last2=Jacobo |first2=Julia|last3=Wash|first3=Stephanie|title=Dallas Shooting Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson Had Rifles, Bomb-Making Materials in His Home, Police Say|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-shooting-suspect-wanted-kill-white-people-white/story?id=40431306 |work=ABC News|date=July 9, 2016|access-date=July 9, 2016}} An investigation into his online activities uncovered his interest in Black nationalist groups.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/suspect-in-dallas-attack-had-interest-in-black-power-groups.html?_r=0|title=Suspect in Dallas Attack Had Interest in Black Power Groups|work=The New York Times|date=July 8, 2016|first1=Jonathan|last1=Mahler|first2=Julie|last2=Turkewitz|access-date=July 8, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/07/08/dallas-sniper-connected-black-separatist-hate-groups-facebook|title=Dallas Sniper Connected to Black Separatist Hate Groups on Facebook|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=July 8, 2016|access-date=July 11, 2016|first1=Heidi|last1=Beirich|first2=Ryan|last2=Lenz}} Dallas Observer noted several similarities between Johnson and Mark Essex, a discharged U.S. Navy sailor and Black Panther who committed two attacks against White civilians and police officers on December 31, 1972, and January 7, 1973, in New Orleans. The attacks left nine people dead, including five police officers.{{cite web |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/a-mass-murder-of-police-officers-43-years-ago-is-strikingly-similar-to-downtown-dallas-shooting-8616279|title=A Mass Murder Of Police Officers 43 Years Ago Is Strikingly Similar To Downtown Dallas Shooting|work=Dallas Observer |date=August 22, 2016|access-date=September 7, 2016|first=Erin|last=Stone}}
In 2017, a black gunman named Kori Ali Muhammad shot and killed three white men in Fresno, California during the 2017 Fresno shootings. He went on a shooting spree due to his hatred for whites.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39636104.amp|title=California gunman kills three 'in race attack' in Fresno}}
In 2024, a Black man named Joshua Cobb from New Jersey was charged for threatening to kill all white people.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/nyregion/mercer-county-threats-white-people.html|title=Black Man Charged With Threatening to Kill White People in Mass Shooting}}
==Public opinion==
A 2017 poll found that 55% of white Americans believe that white people face discrimination.{{Cite web |last=Gonyea |first=Don |date=24 October 2017 |title=Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against |access-date=11 January 2025 |website=NPR}} A 2022 poll found that 64% of Republicans polled said white people experience a fair amount of hate or discrimination in society.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-30 |title=Poll: Most Republicans believe discrimination against whites is 'as big a problem' as anti-Black racism |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-most-republicans-believe-discrimination-185000045.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADR0G3q5QgL0NsnbNJJHCYN8CsmZgS9kbqCruYCUULIRSBLvDrkaGnm81MUQRzFnMfrbFvzOuoCK9VVM_NtW4k60RiagTN-gMsgTDO6u6j965DEhBjWn2xbBq_HEzRd99C1Uz-PMv49LUOF7FCJviNyHzSs7lBxFNCJUtvfWzMiw |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}} A 2023 YouGov poll found that of Trump 2020 voters, 73% say that racism against white Americans is a problem.{{Cite web |last1=Francis |first1=Marquise |last2=Romano |first2=Andrew |date=2023-07-21 |title=Poll: Trump voters say racism against white Americans is a bigger problem than racism against Black Americans |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-trump-voters-racism-white-americans-problem-black-reparations-politics-090038973.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADR0G3q5QgL0NsnbNJJHCYN8CsmZgS9kbqCruYCUULIRSBLvDrkaGnm81MUQRzFnMfrbFvzOuoCK9VVM_NtW4k60RiagTN-gMsgTDO6u6j965DEhBjWn2xbBq_HEzRd99C1Uz-PMv49LUOF7FCJviNyHzSs7lBxFNCJUtvfWzMiw |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}}
=Zimbabwe=
{{Further|Racism in Zimbabwe#Racism in Zimbabwe (post–1980)|Land reform in Zimbabwe}}
File:Mugabe 1979 a.jpg's regime (pictured in 1979), discrimination and violence were perpetrated against the country's white community, with the participation and encouragement of the state.]]
Following the dissolution of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe's independence from British rule in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) party came to power. A racist ideology developed, with ZANU and ZAPU emphasizing the "sons and daughters of the soil" as genuine citizens as opposed to white aliens by nature (amabhunu, a term imported from South Africa which refers to the Boers).{{sfnm|1a1=Ndlovu-Gatsheni|1y=2009a|1p=61–78|2a1=Ndlovu-Gatsheni|2y=2009b|2pp=1151}} At the time, most agricultural land was owned by white Zimbabweans.{{sfn|Meredith|2002b|p=120}}{{sfn|Mlambo|2014|p=222–224, 254–256}} The party, led by Robert Mugabe, implemented racist policies through land reform, confiscating land from whites and evicting them from their farms. Under President Robert Mugabe's regime, discrimination and violence were perpetrated against the country's white community, with the participation and encouragement of the state.{{sfnm|1a1=Blair|1y=2002|1p=73|2a1=Meredith|2y=2002b|2p=169}}{{Cite journal |date=2002-03-08 |title=Fast Track Land Reform In Zimbabwe |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2002/03/08/fast-track-land-reform-zimbabwe |journal=Human Rights Watch |language=en |access-date=2025-02-22}}{{Cite web |last=Heffer |first=Simon |date=2001-08-12 |title=We will not tolerate racism, except in Zimbabwe |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4264747/We-will-not-tolerate-racism-except-in-Zimbabwe.html |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Boisselet |first=Pierre |title=Zimbabwe : Robert Mugabe, l'homme qui n'aimait pas les Blancs (et inversement) |trans-title=Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe, the man who didn't like Whites (and vice versa) |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/227844/politique/zimbabwe-robert-mugabe-l-homme-qui-n-aimait-pas-les-blancs-et-inversement/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |language=fr-FR}} Most white farmers were dispossessed and several were murdered.{{cite book|author=David McDermott Hughes|title=Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging|date=12 April 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-10633-8|page=xiv|url=https://books.google.be/books/about/Whiteness_in_Zimbabwe.html?id=sUnJAAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y|quote=In 2000, paramilitaries killed their first white farmer in Virginia, Dave Stevens. More typically, armed groups surrounded farmhouses and harassed their occupants (meanwhile assaulting and often killing black farm workers).}}{{sfnm|1a1=Meredith|1y=2007|1p=171–175|2a1=Meredith|2y=2002b|2p=167|3a1=Howard-Hassmann|3y=2010|3p=899}}{{Cite web |last=Gyldén |first=Axel |date=2007-05-01 |title=Le saigneur du Zimbabwe |trans-title=The blood lord of Zimbabwe |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/afrique/le-saigneur-du-zimbabwe_477039.html |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=L'Express |language=fr}} Mugabe was regularly accused of stoking hostility towards Zimbabwe's white farmers and blaming them for the failure of his land reform to save his power.{{sfnm|1a1=Blair|1y=2002|1p=42|2a1=Meredith|2y=2002b|2pp=17, 128}}{{Cite news |title=Robert Mugabe refuses to give up |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2008/04/10/robert-mugabe-refuses-to-give-up |access-date=2025-01-11 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}Jean-Louis Tremblais, Zimbabwe, le naufrage d'Ubu roi [Zimbabwe, the sinking of King Ubu], in Le Figaro Magazine (in French), 24 November 2017, p. 26
On several occasions, Mugabe also made statements deemed racist towards whites,{{Cite news |last=Ram |first=Etwareea |date=2001-08-16 |title=Le président Robert Mugabe rallume le racisme anti-Blancs au Zimbabwe |trans-title=President Robert Mugabe reignites anti-White racism in Zimbabwe |newspaper=Le Temps |url=https://www.letemps.ch/monde/president-robert-mugabe-rallume-racisme-antiblancs-zimbabwe |access-date=2025-01-11 |language=fr |issn=1423-3967}} referring to white Rhodesians as "blood-sucking exploiters", "sadistic killers", and "hard-core racists".{{sfn|Blair|2002|p=24}} He called on supporters "to strike fear in the hearts of the white man, our real enemy",{{sfn|Meredith|2002b|p=17}} and accused his black opponents of being dupes of the whites.{{sfn|Meredith|2002b|p=18}} In one typical example, taken from a 1978 radio address, Mugabe declared: "Let us hammer [the white man] to defeat. Let us blow up his citadel. Let us give him no time to rest. Let us chase him in every corner. Let us rid our home of this settler vermin".{{sfn|Blair|2002|p=11}}
Since then, Zimbabwe's white population has steadily declined, from 260,000 in 1975 to around 30,000 in 2014. While whites accounted for 80% of the national income, this agrarian policy has fostered famine in the former corn basket of Africa. From an exporter, the country became an importer. In December 2008, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal, in the case of Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd v Zimbabwe, accused Mugabe and his government of waging a racist political campaign in which land confiscations were carried out in a discriminatory manner.{{Cite web |title=Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and Others v Republic of Zimbabwe (2/2007) [2008] SADCT 2 (28 November 2008) |url=https://www.saflii.org/sa/cases/SADCT/2008/2.html |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=www.saflii.org}}{{Cite news |last=Fleming |first=Lucy |date=2008-09-18 |title=What's the lie of Zimbabwe's land? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7621495.stm |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} The government and the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe contested the tribunal's decision.{{Cite news |date=2008-12-01 |title=Zimbabwe vows to defy land ruling |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7758070.stm |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}Mike Campbell (Private) Limited v. The Minister of National Security Responsible for Land, Land Reform and Resettlement, Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, 22 January 2008 However, in 2016, noting the harmful impact of his measures on agricultural production, Mugabe called for the return to the country of white farmers forced into exile.{{Cite web |language=fr |title=Au Zimbabwe, les fermiers blancs prennent leur revanche sur Mugabe |trans-title=In Zimbabwe, white farmers take revenge on Mugabe |url=http://www.slateafrique.com/651393/fermiers-blancs-zimbabwe |website=Slate Afrique |date= 2016-02-15 |access-date= 2025-01-11}}.
In 2017, new President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inaugural speech promised to pay compensation to the white farmers whose land was seized during the land reform program.{{Cite news |last1=Oliphant |first1=Roland |last2=Thornycroft |first2=Peta |date=2017-11-24 |title=President Emmerson Mnangagwa promises to pay compensation for land grabs and clean up Zimbabwe's 'poisoned politics' as he is sworn in |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/emmerson-mnangagwa-set-sworn-new-zimbabwe-president/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}} Rob Smart became the first white farmer whose land was returned after President Mnangagwa was sworn in to office; he returned to his farm in Manicaland province by military escort.{{Cite news |last=Mutsaka |first=Farai |date=28 January 2018 |title=First white farmer gets land back under Zimbabwe's new leader |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-white-farmer-land-back-emmerson-mnangagwa-lesbury-robert-mugabe-zanu-pf-a8124786.html |access-date=11 January 2025 |work=The Independent}} During the World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos, Mnangagwa also stated that his new government believes thinking about racial lines in farming and land ownership is "outdated", and should be a "philosophy of the past."[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20180128072833/https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/mnangagwa-on-land-we-dont-think-along-racial-lines-its-outdated-20180126 Mnangagwa on land: 'We don't think along racial lines... it's outdated'] News24. 26 January 2018
Anti-white ethnic slurs
{{Further|List of ethnic slurs}}
See also
{{div col}}
- Anti-Americanism
- Anti-Europeanism
- Anti-Western sentiment
- Equal opportunity
- HC 929002 – anti-white racism case in Brazil (2024)
- In-group favoritism
- Outgroup favoritism
- Racial color blindness
- Substantive equality
{{div col end}}
Notes
{{Notelist}}
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