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While I did not know someone has used related ideas in a very different and pre-existing agenda, I can't take hyperbolic accusations of racism seriously anymore

While I did not know someone has used related ideas in a very different and pre-existing agenda, I can't take hyperbolic accusations of racism seriously anymore. They aren't intellectually serious or sincere. I would be surprised if it were controversial at all that immigration is widely recognized as all of: a) a policy tool. b) an economic management tool. c) a demographic management tool. d) a populaiton management tool. e) a strategic political tool. In the cases of Mexico, Libya, and France/EU managing the flow of irregular immigration has historically been a diplomatic and geopolitical tool. The impetus behind the former US admins border wall was because the government of Mexico was using migrant caravans as a diplomatic negotiating lever. Libya's former dictatorship was tolerated by the west because it stabilized the region and limited African migration to Europe. Migrants have always been horribly exploited by their own governments and those of host countries, and using them as political tools is part of why. In the case of Canada, regular and irregular immigration are not really distinguished (as to say someone is illegal is uncouth) and there is an explicit and public federal policy to settle people in rural regions, and in political ridings (districts) where the election margins to win a parliamentary seat are in the single digit thousands. Thinking that policy is cynical and unethical is not racist, and the accusation is a bad faith argument.

danans 3y ago
> While I did not know someone has used related ideas in a very different and pre-existing agenda, I can't take hyperbolic accusations of racism seriously anymore. If you didn't know about it, then you haven't been paying attention. Replacement Theory has been promoted by ethno-nationalist media personalities like Tucker Carlson (who hosted the highest viewership cable news show), and also directly cited by recent perpetrator some of mass murder against immigrants and minorities (Tree of Life synagogue, El Paso Walmart, etc). Both are high visibility and high impact. Replacement theory is not at all obscure at this point.
- motohagiography 3y ago
  What's to pay attention to, isolated conspiracy theorists elevated to the level of hate figures and the boring, neurotic, malice of ideologues? No, thanks. Unless someone has become pathologically preoccupied with oppression and is inventing new places to find it, there is no reason for anyone to have heard of this obscure misfit, or his writing. There is a legitimate and serious conversation to be had about economics and policy, which includes immigration, and one railroaded by ideology is not it. I'd argue your internet weirdo has no place in this conversation other than as a straw man you brought into it.
  - danans 3y ago
    > What's to pay attention to, isolated conspiracy theorists elevated to the level of hate figures and the boring, neurotic, malice of ideologues? Replacement theory is routinely invoked to drive xenophobic policies and election outcomes in the world today. To dismiss that reality as "isolated" is gaslighting at it's finest.

danans 3y ago

> While I did not know someone has used related ideas in a very different and pre-existing agenda, I can't take hyperbolic accusations of racism seriously anymore. If you didn't know about it, then you haven't been paying attention. Replacement Theory has been promoted by ethno-nationalist media personalities like Tucker Carlson (who hosted the highest viewership cable news show), and also directly cited by recent perpetrator some of mass murder against immigrants and minorities (Tree of Life synagogue, El Paso Walmart, etc). Both are high visibility and high impact. Replacement theory is not at all obscure at this point.

motohagiography 3y ago
What's to pay attention to, isolated conspiracy theorists elevated to the level of hate figures and the boring, neurotic, malice of ideologues? No, thanks. Unless someone has become pathologically preoccupied with oppression and is inventing new places to find it, there is no reason for anyone to have heard of this obscure misfit, or his writing. There is a legitimate and serious conversation to be had about economics and policy, which includes immigration, and one railroaded by ideology is not it. I'd argue your internet weirdo has no place in this conversation other than as a straw man you brought into it.
- danans 3y ago
  > What's to pay attention to, isolated conspiracy theorists elevated to the level of hate figures and the boring, neurotic, malice of ideologues? Replacement theory is routinely invoked to drive xenophobic policies and election outcomes in the world today. To dismiss that reality as "isolated" is gaslighting at it's finest.