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    White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump's mind

    The idea that there is a ‘genocide’ of white farmers in South Africa was once the province of conspiracy theorists but, thanks to News Corp’s media promotion, it has moved into the policy realm
    by Jason Wilson Aug 23, 2018 4 minutes
    A bumper sign calls for the end of farm killings in South Africa, during a blockade of a freeway in Midvaal, South Africa. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP

    On Wednesday night, the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson once again talked about the alleged plight of white South African farmers on his Fox News program.

    On Twitter, Donald Trump indicated that he had been watching. The president’s tweet called for further study, but treated the “large scale killing of farmers” as a settled fact, when reporting indicates that against the background of a generally high murder rate in South Africa, there is no evidence of white farmers being specifically targeted.

    But Trump’s tweet came at the end of a long process whereby the far-right idea of “” in South Africa had been mainstreamed, working its way from far-right websites and forums, into the rightward edge of mainstream media, and then into policy proposals. News Corp outlets have played an outsized role in that process.

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