Labor’s hypocritical stance on South African farmers

LIBERAL MP Andrew Hastie has been targeted because he wants to offer humanitarian visas to South Africa’s persecuted white farmers. But the Left rejecting them as refugees due to the colour of their skin is racism, writes Miranda Devine.

ANDREW Hastie took a call this week from a mother of three in South Africa who was shot and raped last month in front of her children.

“She fears for her own life and doesn’t want to go home. This is a real problem,” said the Western Australian Liberal MP. He is calling for 10,000 humanitarian visas for South Africa’s persecuted white farmers, who are being murdered, tortured and hounded off their land.

Yes this problem is real.

Yet the Greens and refugee activists don’t want to know. Worse, they branded Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton a Nazi after he promised to find a way to help the farmers.

Human Rights lawyer Julian Burnside even tweeted a photoshopped picture depicting Dutton in a Nazi uniform.

And now Hastie is being targeted by these cowards.

Last night, as he hosted a community meeting to listen to the concerns of the South African community, the Labor Party used the event to raise money to dump him from his seat of Canning.

In the most despicable act of opportunism, fundraising emails from the office of Labor MP Louise Pratt declared that Hastie wants to “Change Australia’s humanitarian visa program to give special treatment to white South Africans … This man has to go ... Donate now to win the seat of Canning for Labor.”

Trying to raise money on the back of people’s suffering is as low as it gets.

The fundraising email targeting Liberal MP Andrew Hastie. (Pic: Supplied)

Hastie and Dutton are just offering the same humanitarian compassion that Australia offers to any persecuted people. We have the most generous per capita refugee resettlement program in the world. There’s no rule that says white people don’t count.

“We don’t discriminate on the basis of race or anything else,” says Hastie. “When you make decisions around who to resettle, you’ve got to factor in things like humanitarian and economic considerations and it’s on that basis I think there is a good case for providing visas to South African farmers.”

There is no dispute that white South African farmers are being persecuted on the basis of their skin colour, and no dispute that our Commonwealth cousins are hard working and integrate easily into Australian society.

Labor has shown itself to be no better than the race-baiting Greens and the rest of the hypocritical refugee activists. They reject white South African refugees because of the colour of their skin.

That is racism in anyone’s language.