'' New York '' magazine had claimed Trump was attempting to " change the conversation – to one about ' white genocide ' in South Africa " ; '' Esquire '' reported that the " President of the United States is now openly promoting an international racist conspiracy theory as the official foreign policy of the United States . " According to the SPLC , Trump had " tweeted out his intention to put the full force of the U.S. State Department behind a white nationalist conspiracy theory . " '' ' Recent events ' '' In October 2018 , Robert Bowers , sole suspect charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting , stated , " They 're committing genocide to my people " , in a police complaint . On his Gab account ( a favored social network for white nationalists ) he wrote , " Daily Reminder : Diversity means chasing down the last white person " and in an anti-Semitic trope , claimed that HIAS ( Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society ) , a Jewish-American refugee aid organization , was aiming " to bring invaders that kill our people " . Finally , before beginning his assault , he said " I ca n't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered . Screw your optics , I 'm going in . " In November 2018 , Matthew Heimbach , former leader of the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker Party , led a protest in Little Rock , Arkansas over an alleged white genocide occurring in South Africa . He called on the U.S. government to sanaction South Africa for the " violation of international law " in its treatment of white South Africans . In January 2019 , the KKK distributed business cards in Philadelphia with various racist slogans such as " White People are a World Wide minority and there are programs of Genocide against white children " , in what appeared to be deliberatly targeting African-American neighborhoods with material which promoted the conspiracy theory
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
White genocide conspiracy theory