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Donald Trump is openly running a Great Replacement Theory campaign (www.salon.com)

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Donald Trump made clear on the Philadelphia debate stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, the basis of his run for office. Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation. This time around, Trump has made his primary message, the so-called Great Replacement Theory (GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states.

According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nation’s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, as vermin or diseases.

GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called “Black Horror on the Rhine.” In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've got a theory of my own: anyone afraid of being "replaced" isn't that great, and should actually be replaced. Bigots, feel free to go back where you came from.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Its hard to shove them back up the holes they crawl out of.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

US uses predominantly black slaves to achieve in a century what other countries did in a millennia

Free's slaves

US: "Thank you black people for what you've done for this country."

Black people: "And...?"

US: "And... now, get the fuck out."

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is throwing up shit everywhere just to see what sticks. He also promised billionaires that he is going to hand out an unlimited number of green cards to foreigners to work American jobs and lower American wages. Trump is actually an immigration extremist at both ends.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-immigration-expansionist/

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-rebel-over-immigration-proposal-green-card-college/

[–] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

He's been doing this forever. He's THE flip flopper of all flip flopping.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just replace Trump voters with sane people.

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He is not wrong. We wanna replace that cold war bullshit and 80s plastic consumerism. Fuck aquanet.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Well, he's wrong about the racist shit.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

This ISNT true! This is WOKE!

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. We know. Great article. Does some AI just churn this drivel out or what.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump: /openly peddles Neo-Nazi rhetoric/

Neo-Nazis: /Celebrate that Trump and friends are peddling their propaganda/

Salon: /Reports on the mainstreaming of extremist political views by Trump and other Republicans/

You: "Salon should shut the fuck up"

It seems you picked a side in this issue, and that side is decidedly against the press and not against Fascism.

[+] Kaboom@reddthat.com -58 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And this only matters to people who think that "whiteness" is somehow better than "non-whiteness."

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Or people who know how minorities are treated and are therefore afraid to become one.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The theory isn't about birth rates. The theory is that it's a nefarious purposefully planned event by the illuminati

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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….

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -5 points 2 months ago

Well that bit is more about importing cheap abusable labor, and making talking about it into something that's perceived to be racist

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I didn’t read the article,

Good, stop right there and before you go ahead and make a fool of yourself, read it.

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I have a theory it's a conservative mod's alt account

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don’t think it’s race related. If anything it’s more Idiocracy coming to fruition than anything.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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?"