David French, Russell Moore, and the Politics of Selective Compassion

I ran across a tweet by Elon Musk this morning that got me thinking—a rare moment of clarity slicing through the pious fog of evangelical open-borderism. It showed a crowd of South African leftists—dressed in their standard-issue revolutionary cosplay—chanting in unison for the death of white farmers.

Yes, “Kill the Boer,” the old Marxist hymn, resurrected yet again. This time, sung like a national anthem in a stadium packed with red shirts and dead consciences.

Meanwhile, a recent law passed in South Africa allows the state to seize land from white owners without compensation. That’s not a conspiracy theory—that’s just Tuesday in a country that’s traded apartheid for reverse-engineered Marxist tribalism.

And somehow, through all the noise about “human rights,” “refugees,” and “the least of these,” the professional religious voices of moral outrage have once again gone suspiciously mute.

Where’s David French? Is he off polishing another essay on the spiritual dangers of Christian nationalism? Where’s Russell Moore? Drafting a sermon about the Southern Baptist Convention’s original sin of existing? Where’s Bill Kristol? Off somewhere dreaming up the next war to send your son to, as long as the borders of other nations remain sacrosanct.

Their silence isn't just loud—it’s calculated. Deafening not because they forgot to speak, but because they chose not to. The same men who would sooner canonize a Honduran border-crosser than acknowledge the existence of ICE are nowhere to be found when the white, Christian, Afrikaner farmer is being hunted like livestock in the dark.

Why?

Because there’s no political upside. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

But let me explain further.