Subj : Great Replacement Theory
To   : KAELON
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed May 25 2022 18:06:00

> My basic point is that "replacement theory," as discussed in populist U.S. cir
> es, is a racist ideology that is at odds with the entire historical trend of t
>  American melting pot and identity as an integrating and welcoming society for
> mmigrants.

I think you are hitting a nail on the head without realizing it, though.
Yes, there are some who are racist that believe that any foreigner being
brought into another country is "replacement" but, as you pointed out in
another message, you fully understand the reason for assimilating, or
melting into, the American society.

I think the issue comes with the folks that you also described, who want
to be here but don't want to be a part of society, and some that even
expect society to change to their imported values.  That is the
"replacement" that seems to be going on these days.

> That it is applied to describe the fear that White Americans should h
> ave for every immigrant allowed into the country, as if that somehow displaces
> r "replaces" them by erasing their cultural representation, has no basis in Am
> ican history.

It has no basis in history, but what about in the "right now"?  Our
government seems to have no issues letting people in of certain
ethnicities, while others (most Asians) don't seem as welcome.  Even their
lack of issues for most hispanics/latinos does not necessarily extend to
Cubans or Brazilians.

> There are countless examples of how welcoming immigrants and encouraging them
>  integrate and assimilate into American society was directly responsible for a
> ancing the technological supremacy of the United States - from rescuing Jews f
> m Germany's brutal holocaust leading directly to Jewish-Americans helping adva
> e the Manhattan Project to defeat the Japanese, to encouraging the dispossesse
> and persecuted peoples of Eastern Europe being directly responsible for the cr
> tion of the modern American industrial state at the end of the 19th Century.

The key words are "integrate and assimilate."


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