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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 8, 2022, 8:26 pm
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Now they are learning to tie the threads together:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-replacement-theory-behind-buffalo-152511891.html
[quote]How The White Replacement Theory Behind The Buffalo
Shooting Also Fueled The January 6 Insurrection
...
the insurrection wasn’t about election security. It was about a
long-held white nationalist paranoia that their country is being
“stolen” from them — which is laughable given that this nation
was built on stolen land using stolen labor from stolen people.
However, the hearings won’t dig deep into how white replacement
theory and white annihilation anxiety inflamed a violent mob to
storm the Capitol the day Congress ratified the presidential
election results. But it should.
The fear that white folks would someday lose the power of their
majority has ignited a nationwide resistance against the
“browning of America.” And it’s this same fear — not bogus
claims of voter fraud — that’s motivating pro-insurrection
“democracy deniers” to run for governor and secretary of state
in key battleground states like Arizona and Pennsylvania. The
MAGA crowd on January 6 — primed by white nationalist
fear-mongering — heeded Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-AL) call to violently
do what it takes to “fight for America.”
So did 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, who, according to reports,
posted 180 pages referencing the “Great Replacement” to justify
killing 10 Black people last month at a supermarket in Buffalo,
NY. That shooting not only contextualizes the white replacement
theory but a deeper motive that belies the January 6
insurrection.
White replacement ideology sits at the underbelly of White
supremacy. It’s powerful enough to motivate ordinary people to
commit mass murder and attempt to overturn a legal presidential
election. Unfortunately, that’s nothing new to Black folks in
this country.
...
The so-called “Great Replacement” theory sprang from white
anxiety around race and Black people, which began hundreds of
years ago when plantation owners feared violent slave uprisings.
The modern iteration of that fear, or white replacement theory,
is the belief that people of color will replace white people and
take over the country — especially when they become the majority
in 2050, as predicted by the U.S. Census Bureau. When that
happens, white supremacists fear their new minority status will
subject them to punishment for centuries of racial oppression.
They imagine their punishment would be the ultimate extinction
of white people.[/quote]
That would be a good thing, by the way (even though >500 years
late).
[quote]The bloodshed caused by white supremacy is this country’s
putrid legacy — one that our leaders have ignored, excused and
whitewashed for far too long. Ultra right-wing lawmakers have
long been allowed to push white fear buttons with impunity.
They’re using a 200-year-old playbook, and it’s working. It
works because it’s allowed to work.[/quote]
And the correct response is not to tell them the Replacement is
not happening, but to tell them it is already much better than
what they actually deserve for what they have done to the world.
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 22, 2022, 8:31 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/immigration-crime-propel-europes-move-to-right-analysts-say-202748280.html
[quote]At a glance, the two countries share relatively few
commonalities. Sweden is a wealthy, cohesive welfare state,
which over the past 90 years has typically been led by leftist
coalition governments. By comparison, Italy’s economy, which is
burdened by massive debt, is reeling. Costs of living are
soaring, and over the past decade, its government has changed
nearly every 18 months. But in both places, rising crime and
misgivings about immigrants are prompting a political
realignment.[/quote]
In other words, it's not economics behind rightist popularity,
and hence rightism will not be defeated by False Leftist
platforms offering economic improvement. Leftist politicians
need to stop trying to distract people with economics ASAP and
argue directly against rightist talking points on ethical
grounds. For example, we are pro-immigration not because
immigration is economically beneficial (even though it may be),
but because it is the only ethical position:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/<br
/>(see excerpts below)
Continuing:
[quote]Jimmie Akesson, the new leader of the Sweden Democrats,
insists his party has shed its fascist leanings, though the
party remains staunchly anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim and keeps
pounding home its messaging linking foreign-born Swedes and
crime. [/quote]
We already have this covered!
[quote]Another similarly common rightist argument that
"migration by criminals will increase crime" is similarly
faulty. Again, every immigrant is also an emigrant. The total
number of criminals is unchanged. Only the location of crimes
are changed.
(And again, what rightists really mean, of course, is that they
prefer others whom they do not care about to be the victims of
crime. This is tribalism.)[/quote]
Continuing:
[quote]The bigger issue for Meloni, however, may be the changing
face and complexion of Italian citizens. The woman who promotes
“God, homeland and family” frequently laments Italy’s low birth
rate and fears the extinction of Italians and their replacement
by immigrants from Africa, a conspiracy she has accused the
government of the European Union of orchestrating. “The EU is
complicit in uncontrolled immigration, the invasion of Europe
and the project of ethnic replacement of European citizens,” she
wrote on her website in February.[/quote]
We have this covered too! Firstly, it is not "invasion":
[quote]If State A invades State B, former taxpayers to State B
will now be paying taxes to State A instead (ie. State B loses
taxpayers; State A gains taxpayers). In contrast, if inhabitants
of State A migrate to State B, these former taxpayers to State A
who have migrated will now be paying taxes to State B instead
(ie. State B gains taxpayers; State A loses taxpayers). Thus in
fact immigration is the opposite of invasion.[/quote]
Secondly:
[quote]if it's OK for "whites" to live outside of Europe (as
hundreds of millions currently do), it's OK for at least the
same number of "non-whites" to live in Europe.[/quote]
The only way for the left to win is to take the moral high
ground on the issue:
[quote]This pretty much highlights how it is flat-out logically
impossible for WNs to win the ethical debate. If they go with
the position that migration is wrong (which they need for
criticizing migration by "non-whites"), then they cannot avoid
the conclusion that "whites" wronged "non-whites" first, and
hence have no authority to complain. The only logical way to
avoid incriminating themselves is to go with the position that
migration is not wrong, in which case they have no reason to
complain. Either way they are screwed.
Their only recourse is to declare that it is OK when "whites" do
it but not OK when "non-whites" do it ie. ingroup/outgroup
double-standards a.k.a. "It's OK to be white!" In other words,
to declare that they do not care about ethics.[/quote]
not to attempt to distract attention from the issue (which has
failed already).
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: antihellenistic Date: September 22, 2022, 10:28 pm
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Rome was fallen because of immigrants from "Northern Europe",
and it ruined Rome's government and economy. That's the rightist
argument to defend the "controlled borders." What about that?
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 23, 2022, 12:01 am
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Ethics cannot be motivated by survivalism. We must
unconditionally do what is ethical first, and only thereafter
try to survive the (often dangerous) consequences of being
ethical. The moment we start trying to survive first, we have
already ceased to be ethical and hence do not even deserve to
survive.
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 25, 2022, 2:45 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/america-vanishing-trump-insist-were-115731851.html
[quote]Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They
Were Cheated.
When Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas voted last year to reject Donald
Trump’s electoral defeat, many of his constituents back home in
Fort Bend County were thrilled.
...
The county in recent years has become one of the nation’s most
diverse, where the former white majority has fallen to just 30%
of the population.
...
white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming
here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”
A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the
congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted
to challenge Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a
pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing
status shaped the movement to keep him in power.
The portion of white residents dropped about 35% more over the
past three decades in those districts than in territory
represented by other Republicans, the analysis found
...
Many of the 139 objectors, including Nehls, said they were
driven in part by the demands of their voters. “You sent me to
Congress to fight for President Trump and election integrity,”
Nehls wrote in a tweet on Jan. 5, 2021, “and that’s exactly what
I am doing.” At a Republican caucus meeting a few days later,
Rep. Bill Johnson, from an Ohio district stretching into
Appalachia, told colleagues that his constituents would “go
ballistic” with “raging fire” if he broke with Trump, according
to a recording.
...
Many of the objectors’ districts started with a significantly
larger Black minority, or had a rapid increase in the Hispanic
population, making the decline in the white population more
pronounced.
Of the 12 Republican-held districts that swung to minority white
— almost all in California and Texas — 10 were represented by
objectors. The most significant drops occurred in the
Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs and California desert towns, where the
white percentage fell by more than one-third.
...
Texas is one of six states where the white population is now
outnumbered by Black, Hispanic and Asian residents. Nehls’
district, which includes most of Fort Bend County, is part of
the reason: It swung from nearly 70% to less than 40% white over
the past three decades.
But changing demographics in many places may not yet be
reflected at the polls, because of a larger white share of the
voting-age population and higher turnout levels. Exit polls show
that white Texans still made up 60% of the state’s voters in
2020.
The greater Houston area is the center of the state’s
transformation and also a hub of the “stop the steal” movement.
True the Vote, the organization behind some of the loudest
accusations of voter fraud, was founded 12 years ago by a Fort
Bend resident who claimed that a nonprofit was falsely
registering voters in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in
Houston. A cluster of congressmen who actively promoted Trump’s
election denial come from the area. Next month, another
Republican who calls the election stolen is expected to replace
an incumbent who accepted the Biden victory and did not seek
reelection.
...
Some Fort Bend Democrats said they saw an obvious connection
between the declining white share of the population and the
refusal by Nehls and his supporters to accept Trump’s defeat.
“It is a power grab by white Republicans,” said K.P. George, a
Democrat born in India who was elected in 2018 as the county’s
top executive, the first nonwhite person to hold the office.
Nehls, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, served as
the county sheriff for eight years before running for Congress
in 2020. His seat appears safe this year because the
Republican-controlled state Legislature redrew the boundaries of
his district to include more predominantly white and solidly
Republican terrain outside Fort Bend County. Whites now make up
a majority of the eligible voters in the district.
Nehls said election fraud was the only thing that could stop
“the greatest leader of my lifetime” from returning to the Oval
Office in 2024.
“In a fair election, you can’t beat Donald Trump!” Nehls said,
posing for photographs in front of a life-size photo of the
former president.[/quote]
More about Nehls:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Nehls
[quote]On January 7, 2021, Nehls joined 121 other Republican
members of Congress in objecting to counting certain electoral
votes in the 2020 presidential election.[21] On January 13,
2021, he voted against the second impeachment of President
Donald Trump.
...
In the wake of the FBI search of presidential records at
Mar-a-Lago in 2022, Nehls announced his support for Donald Trump
for president in 2024 and denounced the FBI and Department of
Justice as "corrupt".[27]
Nehls doubled down on his support for Trump by publishing a book
in 2022 titled The Big Fraud,[28] in which he falsely writes
that Democrats rigged the 2020 presidential
election.[29][/quote]
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 3, 2022, 10:23 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/watching-white-anxiety-turn-violent-085752555.html
[quote]We’re Watching White Anxiety Turn Into Violent
Rage[/quote]
It is this simple. No economic dressup required.
[quote]the whitelash that had been brewing since the advent of
birtherism and the Tea Party would soon manifest itself in an
upending of all that “post-racial” hope. That’s when Republicans
nominated the anti-Obama—a man who ramped up racial anxieties
rather than speaking to them with compassion and nuance—Donald
J. Trump.
Trump is (and always has been) a caricature of white privilege
and white resentment. A silver spoon heir to a multimillionaire,
whose failures in business were repeatedly bailed out by Daddy,
he somehow conned people into buying his image as the savior of
poor white [s]America[/s]. He rebuffed political norms and
embraced the “good old days” of unapologetic racism, misogyny,
homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia—all while embracing
white nationalism and fetishizing the American flag.[/quote]
If it were about economics, the part in bold would be
impossible. It happened because economics is not what this is
about.
[quote]But this didn’t start with Trump.
Many white [s]Americans[/s] have been fed a very purposeful lie
that began in kindergarten, one that instilled a belief in their
excellence and benevolence.
They learned from the time that they could read and write that
white people discovered this country and turned it into
something the world bowed to and held up as a beacon.
From art to music to innovation, they were fed a steady diet of
their heroes. Even former slave owners were given the benefit of
the doubt to the “thinking of their time,” but were otherwise
characterized as good people—glossing over the enslavement and
torture of other human beings they deemed as chattel to build
“their nation” from scratch. They were told wonderful stories of
Thanksgiving, instead of the massacres and genocide of an entire
Indigenous population at the hands of their ancestors. They were
fed stories of love affairs between slave owners like Thomas
Jefferson and his enslaved captive, Sally Hemings, but not the
reality of ****, abuse, and human property. They were taught
about the innovators of government, like Robert Moses, but not
his rampant racism that was the basis for their urban
planning—the creation of highways that purposefully drove a
stake through the heart of Black communities.
These lies are just the tips of the melting iceberg of white
exceptionalism. And it’s the desperate need for white dominance
and power—the “we must fight like hell to take our country back”
mentality—that is steadily becoming a violent reality.
...
In less than two years, we’ve witnessed an insurrection at the
U.S. Capitol, a conspiracy to kidnap a Democratic governor, and
a likely assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House and
her family.
...
the myth of white greatness is a threat to us all.[/quote]
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 4, 2022, 8:02 pm
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11385903/Ex-CIA-staffer-claims-Christian-white-men-primed-start-civil-war-America.html
[quote]California professor and ex-CIA staffer claims that
'Christian, white men' are primed to start a civil war in
America because they 'were once dominant and are in decline' -
and blames the right for spike in violent extremism
...
Sreenivasan asked Walter - who said she studied foreign nations
on the brink of civil war for the CIA - how far off a war within
the US could be.
Walter then went on to explain the past '100 years' showed that
civil wars are typically started along divided religious and
ethnic lines, when a previously dominant group begins to see
their position wane.
She then went on to say that 'white men' who 'also tended to be
Christian,' were beginning to see such a decline in their
position in the US, and that they had 'almost exclusively' been
the perpetrators of violent extremism in the country since 2008.
...
And again, if you look at the history of the United States, the
group that had been dominant since the very inception of our
country were white men. They also tended to be Christian, and
they are losing that position.'
She then said that white Christian men's notion that they are
the 'true identity' of the nation, and a fear over losing that
ownership, was driving the nation towards violent war.
'You see a subset of this population becoming increasingly
resentful, angry, and they truly feel that this is their
country,' she said. 'And that they're being patriots by saving
what they believe is the true identity of this country and
they're willing to use violence to do it.'[/quote]
Therefore there is no way to change their mind. So if there is
no way to change their mind, and it is morally unacceptable to
let them win, what is the only option left?
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 23, 2022, 11:13 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYVVpKG7nk
Note how Goodman tries (0:42) to shoehorn "anti-Semitism" in
alongside racism with the useless Thompson quote at the
beginning. By no coincidence:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman
[quote]Amy Goodman was born to secular Jewish parents who were
active in social action groups.[7][8] Her father, George
Goodman, was an ophthalmologist.[9] Her mother, Dorothy Goodman,
a literature teacher and later a social worker.[10] She has two
brothers, David Goodman and Steven N. Goodman.[11] Goodman's
maternal grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi.[12][13] Her maternal
grandmother was born in Rivne, Ukraine. [/quote]
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 10, 2023, 7:51 pm
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Mainstream journalists are learning at last:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/israels-hard-line-government-made-131724137.html
[quote]Israel's new hard-line government has made headlines –
the bigger demographic changes that caused it, not so much
...
Israel’s new goverment is the most right-wing and religious
leadership the country has had in the 75 years of its existence,
as many observers have pointed out. And this style of leadership
may last because it represents the next generation of Israelis.
You don’t have to look far to see that the religiously observant
Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox sectors of Israel’s population are
growing quickly. The new minister of Jerusalem affairs has 12
children. The minister of national missions – one of the few
women in the cabinet – has 11, the housing minister 10, the
interior minister nine, the finance minister and the minister of
immigration have seven each and the minister of heritage has
six.
...
The second-fastest growing “tribe” in Israel, based on birth
rate – with families of four children, on average – are the
Orthodox National Religious, whose current political leaders
represent the settlers of the West Bank.[/quote]
Now how much longer will it take them to figure out the only
effective solution?
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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2023, 5:10 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/wesley-lowery-tackles-american-whitelash-110000516.html
[quote]The ‘American Whitelash’ Is Far From Over
...
Three years after the eruption of protests following the death
of George Floyd, Lowery isn’t convinced that America is any
better prepared to deal with whitelash as a political force, let
alone a cultural one — particularly as we head into a sharply
contentious presidential election. Trump once again leads the
GOP primary field, and his closest rival is Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis, who has stoked controversy by curtailing education on
Black history.
...
What we see historically is that, in moments of Black racial
advancement, we see America’s white majority lash out with
rhetoric, with policy, but also with violence. We see a
strengthening of that white supremacy and violence now. In the
Obama years, there was a delusion of a post-racial America.
Instead what happened is that people lashed out in anger. A
Black president was replaced by one who stoked nakedly nativist
anxiety — he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship, for
example.
...
The big problem is that all our institutions — not just media,
but law enforcement, political parties — have not taken white
violence seriously enough.
...
whiteness is real; it’s power. And whiteness has shifted and
changed over the years in terms of who is white, and who isn’t.
But it’s still about who’s in and who’s not.
...
Whitelash drills down into the idea that many white people who
are not at all disposed to violence or even racism, at least on
the surface, are the real problem.
...
There’s this desire to cover politicians normally, to treat
those of them spreading racist or bigoted ideas as if they are
not doing something abnormal. We have to make choices,
understand the differences between who we’re covering and how.
Having a live camera on a Mitt Romney speech is different from
having a camera on a Donald Trump speech, because only one of
them can incite people to violence.
CNN said in 2016, ‘We’re going to treat Trump like we treat any
other candidate.’ That may sound fair, but it’s a choice to not
do something. There are plenty of ways media can inform people.
We can contextualize, we can explain. I think we can’t abdicate
our responsibility to that.
...
One of the incidents of racial violence described in Whitelash
is the murder of a Latino man in Patchogue, Long Island, in 2008
by a white teen who was out wilding with his friends, looking to
attack Mexicans. The case raises a question that troubles us
now: Why would a white person who seems tolerant and normal,
like this teen, commit an obviously racist murder? And when he
says he’s not racist, why do we believe that?
...
Steve Levy, the Long Island official at the time in Patchogue
who criticized immigrants, insisted he was simply responding to
his constituents’ uneasiness about the impact of
immigration.[/quote]
Brief interruption:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Levy_(politician)
[quote]Jewish American state legislators in New York
(state)[/quote]
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Back to main article:
[quote]There are very few people in our society who are willing
to see our world for what it is, who recognize that there is a
strong avowed white supremacist movement, and that that movement
is often strengthened by our mainstream politics. There are
people in my book who are willing to look at this and engage it,
to call things by their name. But there’s not a critical mass of
those people. The majority of white people want to believe the
world is better than it is. That doesn’t sound terrible, but
it’s a big problem.[/quote]
Related:
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