Reply #164: This was a bad decision and his arguments stink to high heaven

[FarrenH]

How he got refugee status is a mystery. It looks like he may lose it too, thanks to the blowback.

Speaking as a white South African who lives in south Africa, Huntley sold the Canadian immigration authority a line of crap. Crime in SA is bad, among the worst of countries not currently in a state of civil war. But it affects everyone, moreso poor, black people. There is absolutely no evidence of a passive aggressive effort by the SA government to discriminate against white people in dealing with crime. And he claims he's been a victim of crime five times and how many years but HAS NEVER REPORTED IT.

On top of that, he's a frikken template-perfect example of the archetypal racist in denial. Loves rugby (not always an indicator but the sport that was considered as important as church by Afrikaner nationalists), braai and sunny skies, carries on about the white farmer holocaust (a common theme in right wing circles even though review of the cold, hard statistics shows farmers to be the least threatened by crime) and a whole bunch of other red flags that scream "angry white racist male" if you're a South African.

Even his friends over here expressed some disbelief at his claims to feeling "intimidated" and having been a victim of violent crime so often. The Sunday papers here report them as saying he's a big, heavily muscled man who has had extensive marshal arts training. Meanwhile his dad appears to be distancing himself from his son's decision, saying "It has nothing to do with me. He's a grown man and makes his own decisions". This was a screwy decision by the Canadian immigration board based entirely on hearsay evidence by what appear to be two racially paranoid white South Africans, and nothing else. It reeks to high heaven of opportunism by someone who simply wants to live in Canada and is casting around for an excuse.

To those who say this wasn't a racist ruling: since it appears to be entirely based on hearsay, and paranoid, racist hearsay at that, the ruling is effectively racist, although it may simply be so as a result of poor judgement by whoever made it.