The Great Replacement Theory Explained

Mr. Beat explains the Great Replacement Theory and how manipulative propaganda fools us into believing white nationalist talking points.

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[jurgnobs]

people keep bringing up the fact that italians and irish weren't considered white. but i think the far more relevant argument is the fact that the "one drop rule" is one of the main reasons for statistical democratic shift. if someone has 1 black grandparent and 3 white ones, they are statistically considered black. of course, if you always count mixed people as "non-white", the actual genetic representation of "white people" will be massively underrepresented in statistics.

most african americans have some white ancestry (often through rape of slaves, but often also from times after slavery). by far most "latinos" have strong "white" ancestry, too. so, if we would count them as "partially white", the statistics would look VERY different.

yes, a modern society mixes more, because luckily a lot of us don't chose their partners based on racist ideas anymore. so there are much more mixed people than ever before. so? it's fucking awesome.

[Avantime]

Just wait until Native Americans hear about the "Great Replacement Theory".

[clmitz]

Sometimes I wish people still had that childlike sense of love and kindness. The older I get the more bitter everyone seems especially over arbitrary nonsense. If only we could still want to be friends with everyone.

[jdwallace]

The first time I heard about the WEF (couple/few years ago) I went on their website and clearly remember reading about their plan for “open borders” and “mass migration to blend poor countries with rich countries”. They’ve since then taken all that down, but they definitely intended this replacement theory issue.

[marcello]

Fun fact: while in the US Italian migration was oftenly perceived as a pollution of inferiors (some even classifying them "non-whites"), in Argentina, Brazil and most of Latin America Italian immigrants were not just welcomed (except for some purists) but invited to migrate, since, according to the Latin American hyperdescent logic of miscegenation, they'd "improve the race".
This is how nebulous the concept of "pure whiteness" is: for Latin America it was all Europeans, for Anglo-America it was only a certain kind of Europeans.

[perceivedvelocity]

My Mom was a child in Brooklyn NY during the 1950's. She grew up in a Irish Catholic family. Her Aunt fell in love with a man from a Italian Catholic family that lived a couple of blocks away. At that time a marriage between a Irish kid and a Italian kid was considered a bad thing. Mixing I guess. After they got married they were not welcome in the Irish neighborhood or the Italian neighborhood. They ended up moving to Florida to start their family. In 2022 we would think that's nuts. I hope that what we are talking about today loses traction is considered old fashioned and weird in a generation or two. (Hopefully sooner than that!)

[thespiceman]

Thank you for calling out the “normies are cowards, don’t conform” point. “Being unpopular= being right” has unfortunately become a genuine point to gullible people

[SophieCat]

“It’s not happening”.

“Actually, it it happening. But it’s a good thing.”

“It is happening. But it’s a punishment that you deserve.”

They can’t make up their minds on what they want us to believe.

[JJMcCullough]

Trump tweeted something about this once, right? From like an account with the name in it or something?

[ds]

“Fellow white people”
Every single time!

[amyoung]

You didn’t shy away from, “this was me” or “this is what I learned”. Well done. It’s hard to face the vulnerable parts of ourselves and this is a testament to your willingness to say some hard but true things. Thanks for being brave. The internet can be a trash can. Hope you received more understanding than not. 🥰

[Kindaya]

This video seem to tackle the more extreme and conspiratorial versions of this, but as a European, coming from a Swedish city that used to be ~95% sweds some 40 years ago (most of these 5% from neighbouring countries), and today have nearly 50% foreign born (mostly from mideast, Afghanistan and Somalia), the change is very much noticable, and its difficult to not admit these ideas come from an actual and real problem at its core.

To say 'the values are already similar, thats why they come here' is a common talking point in Sweden too; but theres little reason to believe this at all true, at least here, and a lot indicating it usually isnt.
The very secular and freespirited cultural style of Sweds, and the very religious, conservative and family controlled cultural style of these regions doesnt always go hand-in-hand, and motivation for picking our country specifically tend to be due to economic safety, not values. The cultural values of sweds are usually viewed as something weird and foreign; a strange enigma you're curious of but knows little about, or something already concluded to be immoral that you ought to avoid being tainted of.

In difference to the US, there is no tradition of multiculturalism here, but rather of a strong monoculture. We were a single people, with a single party (in power), with a single TV-channel, for a really, really long time. As more migrants enter a neighbourhood, Sweds tend to leave it to live locally in the monoculture they are used to; and migrants tend to pick neighbourhoods where they know someone from their home country. As a result, segregation is intensified and integration or assimilation becomes very weak, and plenty of neighbourhoods and schools in my city has no ethnic sweds at all anymore. At most, they are integrated though children of past migrants (who themselves have few or no Sweds in their social circles). To contemplate the "replacement theory", you only need to ask yourself; 'what if this trend continues, for another 40 years...?'


The talking point of 'whites are being exploited' goes back to the motivation of picking a country like Sweden; economic safety. We have a massive wellfare state, and very welcoming rules. When a group who didnt contribute to the wellfare system, then have really low employment numbers and live off it; its hard to not say that there is no exploitation in that. The average for a migrant from these regions is 8 years, until they had their FIRST job... That's a lot of years on wellfare. More than most Sweds have in their lifetimes... To put it simply; if the demographic trends of my city were to be extrapolated to the whole country, maintaining a wellfare state of the standard we´re accustumed to, would be utterly impossible. It only works now due to a system of local government wealth transfer; if not we would sit on a near 30% citybudget deficit. (City in question is Malmö, third largest city in Sweden.)

One can and should avoid the harsh and racialized terminology of "white exploitation/replacement" and the likes of it, while still recognizing that there are real and difficult problems at the core of this, which cant just be sumarized as some fake populist conspiracy theory. Below that conspiratorial surface, real problems are festering and growing; and the unfortunate fact is that high migration is exacerbating those problems.

[artyomsvartovska]

Can someone to explain to me how Luton being 31% White British, Slough being 35% White British, London being 37% White British, Leicester being 41% White British, Birmingham being 43% White British, Luton being 46% White British, and Savile Town, famous for being the most ethnically-homogenous place in the country, at <2% White British (the rest being overwhelmingly Pakistani), while the White British population consistently declines as a percentage census after census isn't 'replacement' and is just all one big conspiracy? "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, 1984

[barexampasser]

This channel is like hearing my passionate middle school history teachers time travel to right now and break down the world. I love it

[patricklarry]

The United nations website talks about "replacement migration"

[NLLHW]

Him saying "goodness gracious" when the image of the KKK slid into frame is absolutely sending me

[AlbertBormant]

Humza Yousaf, the Pakistani First Minister of Scotland, openly talks about changing the demographics of the country. It's become very obvious at this point.

[OpalGemstone]

4:18 minor correction, that flag on the left is actually the Ivory Coast flag ( 🇨🇮) not the Irish flag 🇮🇪 ^^

[AgentSmith]

Here in Europe, we haven't had the same multiculturalism as the US has, except for the last few decades, and we haven't taken in other white people, but people from other continents with vastly different cultures, languages and religions, often directly contradictory to our values. The problem with this is that our once homogeneous and stable population, that shared the same culture and languages within the borders, are now going from stable, peaceful and harmonious societies (in peace time), to more crime, distrust, economic problems and conflicts. Experimenting with demographics in the way our politicians have been doing in the last 60 years or so has been a disaster, and will end in disaster.

[WakaWaka]

"It's not happening, but if it is you deserve it"