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I mean, I didn't read the article, but anyone can go look at the demographics over time and see that white people are having less babies, and becoming less of a majority every census. It's not a theory, it's statistical fact.
And this only matters to people who think that "whiteness" is somehow better than "non-whiteness."
Or people who know how minorities are treated and are therefore afraid to become one.
Except no one is being “replaced”. We’re all still here. And if I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt you’re merely forgetting all that goes with GRT. The supposed intentionality, the inherent value judgment, the conspiracies, the implication that it’s somehow a “problem”… the less charitable interpretation is that you’re intentionally glossing over it and pretending naivety.
Yeah, the issue is calling it "replacement" instead of a demographic shift. The replacement part makes it feel like a bad thing. It's just a natural shift that is no longer as artificially repressed by those in power as it used to be.
The issue is, do you see that as a problem? Yes, our demographic is changing, no one is denying it. To the vast majority of people, it's not a problem though.
The issue isn't one of race. It's of defeating unions by importing cheap abusable labor. The propoganda here is making it out to be racist, when it's a class issue.
The great replacement conspiracy theory is explicitly racist, not classist.
It's a cover for the class issue. Just a slapdash of paint to keep the workers from getting along.
The only ones out here trying to defeat unions are the Rs.
Are you sure about that? Or are they trying to break them in different ways?
Same difference?
The theory isn't about birth rates. The theory is that it's a nefarious purposefully planned event by the illuminati
Wait… aren’t the Illuminati supposed to be aryan overlords themselves? What on earth would they gain by losing power in the US?
That whole thing doesn’t hold together on so many different levels….
Well that bit is more about importing cheap abusable labor, and making talking about it into something that's perceived to be racist
The theory isn't the statistic. The statistic is true. The theory is that there is a concentrated effort to replace white culture, values and people. In reality, white people have just been well off long enough that our culture has shifted away from having a ton of children.
Plus, the entire premise is predicated on the idea that having fewer white people, relative to other ethnic groups, is a bad thing. It's not, but the people who give this theory the time of day are racist, so they see it as a problem. It is not.
I've seen racists online whining about media showing mixed race couples as part of their conspiracy theories. But it requires a bunch of racist assumptions to say that children there are not carrying on their parents' culture and traditions.
Good, stop right there and before you go ahead and make a fool of yourself, read it.
They're head is jammed WAY up their own ass. They post from reddthat.com which doesn't support down voting so they don't get their feelings hurt posting conservative opinions all over Lemmy. I bet they have no clue that nearly every post of theirs is universally hated if it expressed a political opinion.
Yeah I read the rest of their response and their response to another poster calling replace theory "a fact" and realized how willfully ignorant they are. I don't even need to know where they normally post.
I have a theory it's a conservative mod's alt account
That doesn't mean you're being replaced. It means demographics are changing, like they always do.
If you feel threatened by that, you do you, but I don't give a shit.
I don’t think it’s race related. If anything it’s more Idiocracy coming to fruition than anything.
How much of that is because the same racists focused on "replacement" decided that they will judge children using the same "one drop" bullshit they have always used so they can exclude more people from "whiteness?"