The Great Replacement Theory and the GOP's War On America

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How do you know that the Natives didn’t carve it and tamed it by the time the Europeans arrived? Just because the white man wrote history doesn’t mean it is word for word true. It’s not all true, because there is two sides to every story. The Europeans destroyed more than they tamed and carved. The buffalo is a prime example of this.

So you say. Thing is, everything you say should always be taken with a grain of salt, because there is very little, if any, fact to it.

They probably would too, because of your racist policies. Then again, they might stay and overthrow you, due to your racism, because that isn’t what the U.S. is about. It may have used to be all about racism, but it’s not suppose to be anymore and you’re about as racist as they come.

They can, if they are a free, white, rich, male, over 21, but if they are a woman and/or person of colour, very few will, because it’s is the free, white, rich, male, over 21 who has the power in the U.S. About the only time they allow someone other than free, white, rich, male over 21 advance is if they kiss butt and/or used as a false example of what others can achieve.

I don’t like you on the forum and I know I wouldn’t have a thing to do with you in RL. In fact, even as a white woman, I’d probably cross the street just to avoid you, if I knew who you were in RL. Then again, it probably wouldn’t be difficult, because you ooze racism.

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As long as @thatoneguy limits his threads, I can tolerate him. Also, he mostly responds to questions. He’s not bringing his arguments to other unrelated topics and disrupting multiple topics.

As for his comments being racist, definitely. Almost every comment is void of historical context. The “people who were smart enough to leave Africa” one made me laugh.

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I have to admit, it made me laugh too. Intelligence had nothing to do with it. Migrating is just what animals do and humans are animals. Some stay, some move on, some keep moving, some roam within a given area even. Sometimes other animals help them with migration, but whatever the case, animals are always moving.

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I don’t see it like that. For those that do see it that way, I guess we must agree to disagree.

Slave labor is an ugly fact of human history. America is not unique in that way – although the Chinese were never slaves, and Native slavery was small scale in in the US.

Let’s not derail the thread.

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Of course Native Americans had their own cultures, but the fact is they were quite primitive. Europeans took this continent to greater heights than the Natives ever could have.

This is a skeptical forum, so fair enough.

If my racist policies were driving Whites out of the country, they definitely wouldn’t go to Africa.

Non-Whites have done extremely well in the United States. Many do significantly better than Whites. Asians are the most educated and earn the most money.

Black Americans do much better than Africans and Hispanics do better here than in Latin America.

Women also do very well in America, ahead of men in higher education and with total economic freedom.

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But you would restrict a woman’s rights over her own body as if women are not capable of deciding what is good for them. What a strange juxtaposition, based on the Dunning Kruger Effect.

What is Dunning-Kruger personality?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is when a person does not have skills or ability in a specific area but sees themselves as fully equipped to give opinions or carry out tasks in that field, even though objective measures or people around them may disagree. They are unaware that they do not have the necessary capabilities. Mar 11, 2022

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Answering that question isn’t and won’t derail the thread, because the question is basically one and the same. Racism and sexism generally go hand and hand. If one is both, they get a double whammy.

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Don’t kid yourself. Europeans were primitive too at the time. They didn’t know how to live in harsh climate of North American, but the Natives did. I don’t think knowing how to survive is primitive.

And why not? The British did.

For how much longer? Their autonomy over their bodies has been taken from them and returned to a time before 1972. What’s next? Not being allowed a credit card, like it was before 1972? Being denied birth control as a single woman and if married, only having birth control if her husband OK’d it, like it was in the 60s? You really need to get a clue concerning history.

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A Persistent Inequity

Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national economy.

Women working full time in the U.S. are still paid just 83 cents to every dollar earned by men — and the consequences of this gap affect women throughout their lives. The pay gap even follows women into retirement: As a result of lower lifetime earnings, they receive less in Social Security and pensions. In terms of overall retirement income, women have only 70% of what men do. …

Wilfred U. Codrington III & Alex Cohen

PUBLISHED: January 23, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-equal-rights-amendment-blocked-again-century-after-introduction-2023-04-27/

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One of your options was embraced by…wait for it…Abraham Lincoln:

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Gloria Steinem, owner/creator of MS magazine, has worked tirelessly on the ERA for decades. I think she’s basically retired now, but every now and then, she still has something to say.

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Very interesting. I knew Lincoln was not fond of Blacks, but the fact he tried to resettle them on a tiny island with the help of Jewish plantation owners is “problematic”, as the kids like to say. Frankly, it’s also funny.

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Economic freedom means doing what one wants with their money. Women have that freedom in spades. The gender pay gap is a myth anyway.

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Outside of the deep south and southwest, most of the climates found in North America are also found in Europe. It wasn’t a big problem. There were difficulties with agriculture in colonial New England, and Natives introduced the colonists to new crops and agricultural techniques, but the colonists adapted quickly.

A small number of Brits settled in Africa. Way more went to America. None left because of racism.

A very small setback compared to the enormous amount of freedom they enjoy. American women are the most spoiled group in world history.

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Each time I think you’ve reached limits of outrageous statements, you prove me wrong.

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I don’t know what you read, heard, or learned, but a lot of Pilgrims died that first winter.

Again, have you heard of Colonialism? The Brits took over South Africa and instituted Apartheid. That’s the very short version.

Really? You think women in the States should be “barefoot and pregnant”, with no financial resources of their own, unable to own property, get an education beyond learning how to read a little bit maybe in order to cook, or even make decisions about their own health care? Boy, misogyny isn’t lost on you. You obviously love power and control over people you perceive to be inferior to you, which makes you arrogant, small-minded, sociopathic, homophobic, oppressive, loathsome, extremist.

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Yes, but not enough to wipe out the colony.

It was a small number compared to the number who went to America.

Now where did I say all of that?

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Nothing outrageous about it all. American women have very good.

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4/11/2023 by ANSEV DEMIRHAN

Anti-abortion groups, backed by the funders they keep secret from the public, have been lobbying against the Equal Rights Amendment for the past two years.

12.05.2022 | Lindsay Beyerstein

The far-right vs. women’s rights

The US Supreme Court’s imminent attack on woman’s right to an abortion is underwritten by a reactionary, sexist, and racist far-right movement.

On 2 May 2022, Americans learned that the US Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court decision that has safeguarded an American woman’s right to an abortion for more than forty years. The magazine Politico published a leaked draft of a majority opinion written by conservative Justice Sam Alito, which would unequivocally strike down Roe v. Wade . …

… The news came as a shock because the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has held off striking down Roe v. Wade in full because it is such a politically unpopular decision: 59 per cent of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most, if not all cases. Only 28 per cent say they want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. …

The far right’s sexism

Since the draft leaked, women from all walks of life have shared stories of how abortions saved everything from their lives to their careers. …

Not that anyone on the sanctimonious Christian Right seems to give a fart about living woman and children.

As for the pay inequity as another article points out, it’s nuanced. Though it’s nice to hear it’s not as bad as some would have us believe. Still, as they say, it’s “nuanced”.

MYTH: THE WAGE GAP EXISTS BECAUSE WOMEN CHOOSE LOWER-PAYING CAREERS

True, women are more likely than men to have lower-paying jobs, but this is also a nuanced statistic. Women are more limited than men in terms of livelihood options due to gender discrimination (especially in STEM fields such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — subjects that women perform well in at school but tend not to follow as careers).

Sexual harassment and gendered violence also keep women out of certain workplaces and even whole industries. …

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Right. Can you verify that?

With pretty much every post.