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I do know things like white replacement theory emerged in the last few years as the Democrats turned a blind eye to the shambolic border mess and millions of illegal immigrants and extreme belittling of concepts like All lives matter (why wouldn't all lives matter?). When the Democrats make politics out of racial identities, it follows suit that someone is going to start making "white" into identity politics too. After all, why wouldn't that be a fair thing to do? Or are white people not allowed to have an identity? You can't have one but not the other. [/quote]
It’s interesting that you’re coming at this from a place of defensiveness and resentment that has been fueled by the toxic racism on the right, but blaming the Democrats for it. I’m a White person and I used to feel defensive about this, too. I think the defensiveness comes from a level of awareness that the charges leveled against the White race (that we have benefited from a system we create, to the detriment of others).

Why do people get mad about the phrase “all lives matter”? Because traditionally, Black lives [i]haven’t[/i] mattered. Murders of Black victims have gone under-investigated, under-prosecuted and under-punished, but this becomes even worse when the victim is murdered by the same people tasked with protecting their safety.

White replacement theory isn’t a response to borders, it’s anti-semitism, nativism, anti-immigration, bigotry and sexist (depending which strain of it you’re talking about). To the extent that it’s a “response,” it’s more a response to the feeling of loss of supremacy, which is not the same thing as loss of rights or opportunity: “ When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”[/quote]

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