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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Great Fear of the White Right - The Great Replacement
{BLANK}s Will Not Replace Us!The White Right Wing of the world is scared to death that they will be replaced by people who are not them. That fear drives a lot of racial tension and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The reality is that if you look at global population, Caucasians are a distinct minority if you're looking at the world's population based on "race."
There's an interesting pie chart depicting global population by race at the link below:
https://infogram.com/race-of-the-world-population-1go502yg18k62jd
I can't paste the chart into this thread, but suffice it to say that the darker blue color represented by the "Caucasian race" is distinctly not anything like a majority. On a clock face, it would take up just the triangle between 12 and 2. Not all that impressive, really.
Asian and Middle Eastern races make up more than half of the pie.
So, some worried white folks in the USA and Europe are "concerned" about this. They're vastly outnumbered and that makes them fearful. And there you have it, in a nutshell.
Basically, white folks aren't "all that" so much. That's scary stuff if you're already scared of everything, including your own shadow.
Now, in my mind, we're all the same race - that pesky Human Race made up of different shades of Homo Sapiens. But for some folks, that's not good enough. They want to dominate, those scared white folks. So, they buy up all the guns, beat on their chests, and hoot and holler, "{BLANK}s Will Not Replace Us!"
I guess some folks are feeling backed into a corner and, you know, "endangered."
And there you have it.
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The Great Fear of the White Right - The Great Replacement (Original Post)
MineralMan
Sep 2021
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Klaralven
(7,510 posts)1. Where did "Middle eastern (indian)" as a race come from?
Even India itself is a complex racial picture, with variations from very light-skinned descendants of Central Asian gene flows to very dark skinned tribals populations.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)3. Don't know. Doesn't matter
in this context. Those were the categories at the link. All are considered to be non-whites by the racists.
Kid Berwyn
(14,808 posts)2. GQP Markets White Replacement Fears Successfully
Great analysis, supports Mineral Mans OP, hidden behind a paywall:
The Racist Theory That Inspired Murderers Is Now GOP Dogma
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-racist-theory-that-inspired-murderers-is-now-gop-dogma