"So I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement', if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the third world," he said.
"But they become hysterical because that's that's what's happening actually. Let's just say it. That's true."
"Demographic change is the key to the Democratic party's political ambitions," Carlson said in another segment from an episode just days later.
"In other words you're being replaced and there's nothing you can do about it so shut up!"
– Tucker Carlson, Fox News, April 2021
Make America Great Again? The Great Replacement Theory?
White people here ARE NOT being stripped of their power through the demographic rise of communities of color, driven by immigration. The Great Replacement is a racist conspiracy theory largely spread through a White nationalist movement and, sadly, being embraced by many Republican conservatives.
Look at Scioto County and judge for yourself. Here are population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau for Scioto County:
Population Scioto County
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73,346 |
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74,008 |
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79499 |
(“Quick Facts Scioto County.” https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sciotocountyohio. United States Census Bureau. 2022.)
Can any sane White individual use these statistics to support an argument that he or she is being “replaced” in Scioto County? Blind adherence to the conspiracy theory spreads the lie – part of a dangerous manifesto many extremists employ to spread violence and death. I cannot fathom why intelligent people take this bigoted bait – hook, line, and willing fragility.
The
Great Replacement Theory – touted by a growing number of people –
is pure hatred. If you don't believe this, just open up the rhetoric.
Media sites like American Renaissance,
a white supremacist website, deliver the conspiracy daily. Gregory
Hood, staff writer for American Renaissance
out of Oakton, Virginia, wrote on September 11, 2019 …
“The Great Replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory – it’s an obvious fact. Barring radical demographic change, conservatism will be finished soon. Our job is to build something new out of the ashes of this failed movement.”
“We also believe that whites, like all racial groups, have legitimate interests that must be defended. The defense of those interests is white advocacy. We seek to advance only those interests that we recognize and would defend for all other racial groups.”
In the same site, a writing by Colin Flaherty on May 8, 2022 stated …
“I live outside a “chocolate city” in Alabama. I worked for years in the cable industry, which required me to go into some of the worst areas and into some of the most vile homes one could ever imagine. As a cable system auditor, I was responsible for finding illegally connected residences. And as you would suspect, the overwhelming majority of those illegally connected were in the black neighborhoods. My job would require me to disconnect the service and then go to their door and sell legal service. Now most civilized humans would not blame me for losing their illegal cable, but with blacks, it’s a different story. I have been cursed, threatened, chased, and attacked — even while on my ladder.
“Over the last 12 years, I’ve seen a lot of black families, and they’re nearly all dysfunctional. Even when there’s a father at home, he’s often willing to abuse his kids right in front of the cable guy. Black mothers talk to their children as if they were misbehaving animals. It’s always the same. Even if things turned around right now for the 'black community,' it would take at least three generations to get to any kind of normalcy. It’s a lost cause.”
American Renaissance also speaks of science and diversity …
“A review of the literature on everything from plant behavior to brain function to choice of mate to social patterning shows that nature itself is ethnocentric. Humans are no different from other species: They prefer the company of their own kind. Attempts to stimulate and glorify diversity are clearly an attempt to thwart our most basic instincts.”
Fred Reed wrote in American Renaissance on May 9, 2022 …
“Whites of European origin, though still a majority, fade in influence. Blacks and Hispanics now have enough votes that neither Republicans nor Democrats can afford to trifle with them. While whites, Asians, and Latinos get along reasonably well, blacks get along with nobody.
“The attacks on Asians we hear about are all by blacks, who do not like Latinos, and who engage in the Knockout Game against whites. Black crime drives whites and middle-class blacks from the cities. Because the media downplay or conceal problems with blacks, many are unaware of the gravity of circumstances, of the illiteracy and hopelessness and fury in the big ghettos. They exist. Nothing is being done about them and probably nothing can be done.”
According to Carol M. Swain, retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt, University "American Renaissance has become the leading intellectual journal of contemporary white nationalism with a small but highly educated readership which sees itself as the vanguard of a new race realism that seeks to rescue America from the harmful effects of multiculturalist dogmas."
YouTube banned the American Renaissance channel, along with those of individual white nationalists, in late June 2020 for ignoring the website's policies against hate speech.
(Carol M. Swain. The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. Cambridge University Press.2002.)
Replacement Is Alive and Well In Ohio
Ohio, wake up and fight this obvious bigotry. It has infiltrated the state and threatens to further divide people along racial lines.
As J.D. Vance won the Republican nomination for Ohio’s senate race, he and other Buckeye conspirators promise to use the Replacement Theory to their political advantage. Vance has spent a great deal of time lately giving voice to some of the central talking points of the Great Replacement, particularly as it relates to immigrants "invading" the United States and voting for Democrats.
In an early April debate, Vance, on the defensive for dismissive comments he made regarding the war in Ukraine, said that Ukraine was "not our fight,” but rather, that it was a "massive distraction" from the "border invasion" occurring in the United States. The day before that debate, Vance dropped an ad in which he lamented "Joe Biden's open border," which will lead to "more Democrat voters pouring into this country."
Here is what Chris Roberts wrote in an American Renaissance article on May 4, 2022 …
“Mr. Vance has also done much to force the media and politicians to acknowledge white poverty and dispossession. He first did this through his bestselling 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, and he continues to do so. With the outbreak of war in Eastern Europe, many Republicans have tripped over themselves striking as bellicose a posture as possible.
“Mr. Vance, in the tradition of America First, has not. At CPAC, he said, 'I’m sick of being told that we have to care more about people 6,000 miles away than we do people like my mom and my grandparents and all the kids who are affected by this [opioid] crisis.' Later he said, 'The very first thing is that we should declare the Mexican cartels a terrorist organization. Don’t send the military to Ukraine, send it into Mexico and let’s fight back against this poison.'
“Mr. Vance isn’t perfect. He had deep reservations about Donald Trump before he became President, and he married a woman named Usha Chilukuri. Still, he’s better than yet another neocon or evangelical, especially since Ohio is an important state that has sent eight of its citizens to the White House.”
(Chris Roberts. “Good News from the Buckeye State. American Renaissance. May 4, 2022.)
Bottom Line
From where I sit, I see White dominance in politics and in society are all around. As the county's population continues to shrink, people often scapegoat the opioid epidemic and immigration for the decline of the area. They believe the county has a “black eye” because of others who threaten their established way of life. For God's sake, life here – the bad and the good – is a product of years of indifference and adherence to a nationalist view that suppresses progressive movement.
The existence we know, including the worst elements – drug use, welfare dependence, job scarcity, adverse health conditions, and population decline – is what we have allowed it become. We majority Whites represent the nearly exclusive population – 94.4% (look above) – not some fantastical them.
I will never forget speaking with a friend a few years ago who was convinced that America was going to hell because “libtards” were instilling socialism and immigrants were overrunning the nation. That person was so bent on bringing back the heyday of the “old days” when Whites were in charge and minorities were suppressed.
I laughed and said, “Well, you don't have to look to the past. Things haven't changed much around here. Republican politics and conservatism have dominated this White county for as long as I can remember.”
Of course, any mention of diversity drew his objections. He quickly answered my view with the obligatory “I haven't got one racist bone in my body. And, I have Black friends.”
I responded: “Did you ever consider that those friends are living on your terms with your allowances and very little of their own representation? Their liberty is even influenced by restrictive policies of the past. No one should have to earn respect and freedom in America.”
Of course, that went over like a fart in church. The conversation was changed, and we both soon bid each other “good day.”
You see, no one denies that there are changes occurring that many detest. Some of these are inevitable, and some are not. We – and I'll ask you to look just once more at the stats – we 94.4% White population – largely dictate our own future. What I believe is that diversity is the strongest fabric of our nation, and that diversity is sorely missing in Scioto County, Appalachian U.S. Who can deny that systemic racism exists here in 2022?
If you want to adhere to a lie and buy the Great Replacement Theory, you believe you are at the mercy of some endless, vast throng of black, brown, and yellow people that is “invading” your country and “destroying” your way of life. In other words, you think they are suppressing you in your own Scioto homeland. They are taking over – taking your jobs, devaluing your properties, poisoning your schools, watering down your precious, pure-White genetic pool.
If you believe that, I feel sorry for you. Not because this crazy-ass conspiracy theory is has any shred of truth, but because you are hateful and seeking an object of blame for your irrational hostility. And, ironically, my friend, you are experiencing false fears of oppression that parallel the real fears that minorities have suffered in America since their existence.
I, Too
By Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
(Langston Hughes, "I, Too" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc. Source: 2004.)
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