Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is...
by kelseyfrog on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:32PM
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It's also spelled out in The Birth Dearth[1], but yes, the idea is much older. It is a synthesis of Hobbes and race to arrive at a conception of racial power which constructs a "looming crisis" extrapolated from a decades-long demographic trend toward racial pluralism. In so far as Wattenberg is concerned, the stakes are western civilization itself by way of an implied western chauvinism.
1. Wattenberg 1987 (ISBN-13: 978-0345343994)
This stuff has been floating around for a while, it's not exactly new. I remember my mom telling me back in the 90s that at some point we'd be a majority-minority country, which she framed as a positive thing.
White racists in the south have been trying to start a race war for more than a century.