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Anonymous wrote:Serious question: what's the approved DCUM view about replacement theory, is it just right-wing fear and white supremacy, or does it also include the well-established and often touted fact that the US population is quickly moving towards being primarily minorities.
It's de facto not a "theory," if you're just rationally talking about data and statistics.
It becomes a "theory" when you try to attribute malice and blame to the changing data. And even worse, when you try to "stop the change"...presumably through murder and deportation of American citizens.
I'm sympathetic to this view that discussing demographic shifts in terms of data and statistics should not be criticized. I agree that attributing fears to the shift is problematic. But what about attributing hope to the shift? I feel that these are flip sides of the same coin. For someone to be happy about a different demographic mix in the future must mean they view the current mix to be inferior in comparison.
Framing like this denies that there is a power dynamic at play. As a non-white person married to a white person, I don't think that one particular ethnic/racial mix is fundamentally better than another. But I do think that there is a power asymmetry in the US, and our laws, systems, and institutions favor white people...though most do so indirectly these days.
In a democracy, demographic shifts that give non-white people more electoral power give me hope that we can start passing laws and building institutions that are more equitable. Too many people (and not even just white people, also non-white people who've managed to eke out some privilege) want to jump to race neutral without recognizing that we're still living with the legacy of racist policies that disadvantage non-white people.
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