The Replacement Theory Isn’t A Theory. It’s Fear
But exactly WHO should be afraid?
Issue #56: OpEd
It’s good to be king – until you aren’t.
In a really brief and abbreviated fashion, this explains the motivation behind the so-called “replacement theory” that twisted the brain (??) of that white supremacist murderer who decided a week ago in Buffalo that killing ten Black people in a neighborhood store where a lot of Black people regularly shopped would be a big step toward holding back the massive Black and Brown Tide of humanity that threatens to wash away white people from these here United States.
It's all about fear. And historically speaking, there are few things more dangerous than white people when they feel threatened. Or when they feel the only way to overcome their irrational fear of darker-skinned people is to either wipe them out or control them.
Like I said. Threatened.
Check out the history behind South Africa (and most of the rest of colonialized Africa). And India. And the Congo. And Australia. And the United States of America.
If you don’t already know the history, you should check it out sometime (while you still can before the books are removed from the shelves and “replaced”). The effort to suppress and systematically destroy non-white power is nothing new. It has been going on for generations upon generations, and it always involves white people murdering and subjugating non-white people to take what isn’t theirs – land (as in the United States) or people (as in slaves) – to make things better for themselves regardless of the havoc their actions inflict on everyone else.
So setting aside for a moment this Buffalo murderer’s rather apparent inability to perform basic math (because you really need to kill more than ten of us to put a dent in replacement), let’s discuss this so-called “replacement theory,” or “the great replacement,” as it is also known. Because Buffalo guy (no need to repeat his name) isn’t the only one out there harboring these fears, even if he’s slightly more extreme than others.
For example, we might consider many of the blatantly racist actions of the Republican Party over the last decade or so (at least) to be at least partially motivated by a fear of being replaced by non-whites, which is why the Republican Party is a predominantly white party.
To state it more clearly, this is a Republican/white supremacist fear of ceding power to – or even sharing power with - non-whites. That would largely explain their rabid opposition to allowing non-white people to vote in proportion to their actual numbers. It would explain why they are putting so much effort into perverting the results of the upcoming election, and so little effort into coming up with actual competing ideas for how to make this country better. Because in their minds, a better America equals a whiter America. Nothing more complicated than that. According to this article from NPR, the Great Replacement is defined thus:
“In short, the "great replacement" is a conspiracy theory that states that nonwhite individuals are being brought into the United States and other Western countries to "replace" white voters to achieve a political agenda. It is often touted by anti-immigration groups, white supremacists and others, according to the National Immigration Forum.
White supremacists argue that the influx of immigrants, people of color more specifically, will lead to the extinction of the white race.”
Sooooo… in order to prevent white extinction, their idea is to speed up the extinction of everybody else who isn’t white? So how much blood needs to be spilled before they can stop being afraid? Why do Black lives still have to be governed by the dictates of white fear?
And seriously, folks, who is it that really needs to be afraid?
