Let's Revisit The Great Replacement
The Great Replacement (French: Grand Remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory disseminated by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans. Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Great Replacement "has been widely ridiculed for its blatant absurdity."
Regular visitors know my views are tempered by the common-sense observation that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you, but this neglects the whole question of whom they're out to get. If you're a white guy worried about Latins streaming across the border, maybe you're paranoid and maybe you aren't. On the other hand, as I've been noting here pretty frequently, if you're black, you have more urgent reasons to mistrust white Democrats. Planned Parenthood was and is aimed at reducing the population of blacks.Yesterday I was especially puzzled that the black mayors of Chicago and New York trusted their white Democrat governors to work with white segregationist Joe Biden to temper the effect of Latin immigrants surging into their cities. Black residents of Chicago turn out to be asking the same question: is there in fact a Great Replacement under way, and just who is being replaced?
On Tuesday afternoon, a protest took place outside the Amundsen Park Fieldhouse in the city’s Galewood neighborhood, where residents voiced their concerns about a plan to transform the space into a migrant shelter.
"We ain’t having that. No! You want to tell us what to do in our park? You cannot do that! We pay our money," said Linda Johnson, community member.
Critics argue that turning the site into a migrant sanctuary will disrupt crucial park programming and youth activities for residents – programs that took years to build.
"You want to take the little scraps of resources we have and put us at the bottom of the barrel? That’s not fair!" one woman said. "A lot of these young boys, they don’t have fathers so a lot of these coaches, they are their fathers. They spend part of their weekend here along with during the week, that keeps them in a safe place, it gives them mentorship, it shows them discipline."
The story goes on to outline other parts of the city where there are similar conflicts between established black neighborhoods threatened by Latins surging into newly designated immigrant shelters. It mentions Gov Pritzker's approach, which if anything seems to lack any special urgency:
At the same time, Governor J.B. Pritzker is urging the Biden administration to address the migrant crisis. He penned a letter to the president on Monday, emphasizing that the influx of migrants in Illinois has become "untenable."
Illinois has already allocated $330 million to tackle the migrant crisis, and Pritzker believes that additional resources can be provided by the White House and Congress to assist blue states targeted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott's bussing campaign.
In other words, blah blah blah -- except that Pritzker also recognizes that it's Texas Gov Abbot who's forcing action:
"You don't hear him telling Republicans that they need to go to work in Washington on behalf of reform. Instead, he is just sending busloads across the country and causing chaos really," Pritzker said.
Pritzker says he's been in regular discussions with the Biden administration since the first bus arrived in Chicago in August 2022, seeking effective ways to address the ongoing challenges posed by the migrant crisis.
In other words, blah blah blah. What I'm beginning to notice about the latest Republican strategies is that they're forcing choices on Democrats. You can open the spigot and bring in all the Latin migrants you want, and you can have programs that support black communities, until you have to start to choose. And let's recognize that whether or not Gov Abbot charters buses to New York or Chicago, those are the places the migrants prefer, and they'll get there by charter bus or some other way.Thus we have what appears to be a reversal by Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas:
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is citing an "acute and immediate need" to waive dozens of federal laws in order to build a border wall in south Texas as the illegal immigration crisis grows utterly out of control.
The problem I keep seeing is that, whether or not bien pensant opinion agrees, mass migration from the global south has been an agenda item. The assumption up to now has been that the intent is to make the world a better place, with a US electorate that looks more like -- who knows? -- Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay? -- than the current US, and those replaced might just be those of northern European backgrounds. But when policymakers are forced to choose, all of a sudden, they're choosing to replace the blacks. The northern Europeans, represented by the white Democrat governors doing the choosing, will be just fine.Plenty of blacks have understood this all along. Yes, there's a Great Replacement agenda. The question isn't that there's an agenda, the question is who's being replaced.
