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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 anymo
by 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 agoWhat'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.