538: The Twisted Logic Behind The Right's 'Great Replacement' Arguments

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Days after a white gunman shot 13 people, killing 10, at a grocery store in a majority-Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a segment about the “great replacement theory.” “We’re still not sure exactly what it is,” Carlson claimed about the racist, white-supremacist conspiracy theory that the population of white Americans is being systematically and intentionally “replaced” by nonwhite immigrants and their children, something the suspected shooter espoused prior to the attack. Yet elements of the theory have been echoed by mainstream figures on the right, including Carlson, as well as GOP members of Congress like Reps. Matt Gaetz and Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House.

In last week’s segment, Carlson detailed the version of the theory he’s been spreading for years (more than 400 times according to a recent New York Times analysis). “There is a strong political component to the Democratic Party’s immigration policy,” Carlson said before airing a handful of clips of Democrats that don’t actually demonstrate what he claims. “They say out loud, ‘We are doing this because it helps us to win elections.’”

This more mainstream version of the replacement theory hides behind justifications that the criticism of changing American demographics is about politics and power. It’s a narrative so prevalent on the right that nearly half of Republicans believe that immigrants are being brought to the country for political gains. According to a poll conducted in December by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 47 percent of Republicans agreed with the statement that “there is a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with their political views.”

But those justifications are built on false assumptions about American demographics and immigration: that white people will soon be a minority in this country, that immigrants and non-white voters are all Democrats, and that no longer being the majority group means a loss of power. When those assumptions are torn down, the true justifications for these fears become transparent.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-twisted-logic-behind-the-rights-great-replacement-arguments/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Only a warped and twisted mind would present this as fact, and TC is one of them (warped and

twisted) and he got nailed for it too.

I just wish that more would happen to him, e.g., millions of us file a class action lawsuit against fake / faux / fox news and sue them for every cent they have, for basically lying in every one of their newscasts, reporting seemingly on true news when in fact, it's their own stuff that they manufactured themselves, all lies. Unfortunately, w/ the freedom of the press and free speech, I don't think much will happen to this scumbag.

[DAngelo136]

2. It's not "twisted" at all.

Had anybody paid attention to the late Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing and her work: "The Isis Papers" you would already know why "Replacement Theory" permeates through America:

With THAT, you can understand why white America has taken the actions that it has:https://eand.co/americas-problem-is-that-white-people-want-it-to-be-a-failed-state-bac24202f32f

And part of it is our own collective faults:

"White Americans — the good and reasonable ones — overestimate their social group so badly that they probably imagine a majority of white people voted for Obama. Wrong. Even Obama couldn’t win a majority of whites. The only candidate who came close was Bill Clinton — and even he failed. White Americans, again, never voted any way but fanatically “conservative”, which, in global terms, means more like majorities in Iran or Russia than Canada or Europe — regressive, ignorant, brutal, hostile, selfish, and supremacist, not modern, gentle, fair, wise, sophisticated, thoughtful, peaceful, tolerant." (ibid)

We, African Americans FAILED to acknowledge that the problem was our collective lack of powerlessness. We put our efforts into appeasing a segment of the population that would never be, rather than transforming ourselves which in turn would transform them. The late Dr. Amos Wilson identified this problem thusly: