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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GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.
It really should be.
If I was illiterate racist redneck trash in the south, I’d be terrified when decent people who actually believe in work and are far better Christians than I always scream I am show up.
Trash is embarrassed when they’re compared next to not-trash.
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I love lower-class people everywhere else.
Just not the racist filth in the south.
We ended reconstruction early.
Their cruelty towards those poorer than them (just because they had a different skin color) is even worse.
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.
Its hard to shove them back up the holes they crawl out of.
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.”
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/
He’s been doing this forever. He’s THE flip flopper of all flip flopping.
Just replace Trump voters with sane people.
He is not wrong. We wanna replace that cold war bullshit and 80s plastic consumerism. Fuck aquanet.
Well, he’s wrong about the racist shit.
Yeah. We know. Great article. Does some AI just churn this drivel out or what.
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.
Okee doke. Flood the zone with constant “what did Trump do now” worked so well in 2016. GRT has been in the news because of Trump since 2016. Look at the vertiginous rise in Ngrams in 2016. It’s just one of the many things he does to keep himself central in the news cycle.
No news is worse than bad news at this point in a presidential campaign. Especially when the “bad news” is the same stuff that didn’t turn around any of his voters in the past.
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https://www.salon.com/2024/09/13/donald-is-openly-running-a-great-replacement-theory-campaign/
https://www.salon.com/topic/debate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Horror_on_the_Rhine#:~:text=The%20Black%20Horror%20on%20the,Rhineland%20between%201918%20and%201930.
https://www.salon.com/topic/great_replacement
https://www.salon.com/2023/11/15/building-the-mandate-for-maga-why-is-choosing-a-harm-offensive-over-a-charm-offensive/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.
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And this only matters to people who think that “whiteness” is somehow better than “non-whiteness.”
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 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.
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
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.
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?”
