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Glad it was helpful. Part of a longer piece I am struggling with and have been researching for too long.

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indeed, it is America's turn next!

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Thanks for the input Jan. My money says the NFL catered to the White audience/culture for decades. Now that the NFL is so predominantly Black (players), I suspect it caters to the Black audience/culture. The NFL can't please everyone.

As a trial lawyer who represented many wonderful Black people in civil rights cases, and in some criminal and personal injury cases, I got to see the rich Black culture close up (early on) in my late 20s. I suspect sexual prudishness (in general) turns some Whites off (and, perhaps, some Blacks too) when they watched the Black performers at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime. No doubt it's different than what I grew up on in my formative years. But, its a big world with so many disparate tastes. So we have to keep an open mind, and go out of our comfort zone (sometimes).

As my non-prudish, rebellious Irish Mother always told me... "Freddie me boy, you ain't everybody's cup of tea either, so live and let live." Disclaimer. I took my 8th grade educated, Irish Mother to the play Hair in 1969 in San Francisco. She loved it. She also loved the Krishna Hindus dancing on the streets of Haight Asbury during the Summer of love in 1967.

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Replacement theory ???

Hey, Tucker Carlson, do you believe in Capitalism ??? Hey, you Whites who complain about being "replaced"... do you believe in Capitalism ??? Answer ??? Of course you do... especially when it's White guys (like us) who have grown up with all the advantages and all the opportunities... previously denied to people of color.

All those White ball players who use to be Major Leaguers before Jackie Robinson and Larry Dolby broke the color barrier... are now hopelessly stuck in the minor leagues, "replaced" by Blacks (who use to play in the Negro Leagues) and replaced by Major League ballplayers from Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Korea, Japan, Colombia (our own Detroit Tiger, Hall of Famer to be... Miguel Cabrera), etc.

Tucker Carlson, you and your whining, White followers don't want the level playing field of Capitalism and survival of the fittest. You and your followers want the old "leg up" ... the same leg up you have had for four centuries in America. You want an economic playing field that favors your White lineage in America... a White-lineage advantage that still exists in America 400 years and counting...

* 1619... Introduction of Black slaves in America to

* 1865... Black slaves were freed by the 13th Amendment to

* 1865... Blacks dominated by Jim Crow laws of "Separate but Equal" to

* 1950s... Brown vs Board of Education starts to dismantle Jim Crow and "Separate but Equal" to

* 1965 Civi Rights Laws to

* 2020 George Floyd.

A period of 400 years (over five centuries) when White men like Carlson and his weak kneed followers were supreme, and had all the opportunities... while the people of color sat in the back of the bus, or, perhaps, were lynched if they got too uppity or talked too loud on the bus, or, God forbid, someone thought they may have looked at a White woman.

"Replacement" is the way Capitalism has always worked. Ask the players in the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, the American League, the National league, PGA, General Motors UAW, Ford UAW, old Chrysler UAW, Teamsters, all the Union workers fighting against the duplicitous "Right to Work" laws, all the "small business" Mom and Pops of America. In Capitalism, we are all competing against our replacements... day in, day out. Month in, month out. Year in, year out. White Capitalists had no problem with the four Centuries when the shoe was on the other foot, and they had an artificial advantage form the mere color of their White skin.

Grow up Tucker Carlson. Grow up the rest of you who chant, "We wont be replaced by [fill in the blank]." Quit whining because you don't have heart of a competitor. Quit crying because you don't have the heart of a champion. Quit your B.S. chanting about replacement because you can't figure out how to monopolize Capitalism like you did in the good old days when America was great again.

Fred Lauck

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A concept that acts as an accelerant to the fears generated by replacement theory is what some refer to as "fixed pie" economics, the simplistic idea that resources are largely fixed such that population increases inevitably result in your slice of the "pie" getting smaller. This is further amplified by the unwarranted assumption that, overall, new arrivals will perpetually take more resources than they contribute. The pie will never grow as a result of this new blood. But who would have thought that a new arrival to these shores with but 38 cents in his pocket named Andrew Carnegie would single handedly make the pie so much larger that he found it. How conceited it is to think that new legal immigrants cannot possibly grow the pie even a modest bit. We have to remember that a rising tide lifts all boats, the new ones and the older ones too. At the very least new immigrant workers will finance the social security payments of all retirees including those who today are so fretted about adding to the already heterogenous American population.

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Replacement Theory is a red herring. Millions of people streaming over the border undocumented is the issue that bothers most Americans but it is not about race. Importing millions of people who will need government assistance is clearly a strategy for the Dems to build a permanent majority. And, unlike American citizens, these illegal immigrants will not complain when the country descends in to feudal state.

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Hi Jan, I have been writing about this connection for over thirty years. See www.henryagiroux.com

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A statistic most of the general public is unaware of. Only about 15 million Jews on this planet. Stats show billions of Chrisitans and Muslims plus other more dominant races, cultures and religions. Jews are only .19% of the world population. Point one nine. Not 19. "for emphasis". In Hungary it is 1%. Yet Orban scapegoats them. 7 million Jews which is about half of the global population live in the US. Yet still a small percentage out of the 330 million US citizens. Only 2%. So when someone blames the Jews point this out. Ask them if they really think the world is controlled by .19% of the people? Granted most humans are poor at numbers and don't understand correlation/causation. As to propaganda while many here understand what it is we have to also understand that most humans do not. Many simply can't overcome the lies they have been lead to believe. So how to limit it's effectiveness matters. Fact checking is great. Yet propaganda tells people to not trust the fact checkers. Exposing the lies for what they are sadly perpetuates them if not done correctly. Human nature also wants to shoot the messenger. So it can certainly backfire on the group/person exposing the lies/liar. People like these lies and the liars for a reason. They offer these people something. Of course they implant the fear and then they make themselves the only person/group that has the solution to end the false problem. Can't change the minds of milliions. The effort needs to be on making the incentive to lie costlier. Politically or economically.

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So can we all agree the far right, white supremacist groups and its propagandists like Tucker Carlson are neo fascists?

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May 20, 2022·edited May 21, 2022

This is a fabulous piece, informative historically, and clear on the roots of this fascist drivel. What I find lacking in most of the commentaries on the shooter is his comments on loneliness and how in his search for community he seized upon white supremacist ideology, leading of course to mass violence. Little is said about both the lack of anti-racist education that might enable youth to be seduced by white supremacy ideology and the ways in which neoliberal capitalism produces loneliness, depression, and the death of the social for many young people. More specifically, neoliberalism is the architectural, ideological foundation for the destruction of community, the social, and any viable notion of social responsibility. Think about Milton Friedman and the Chicago School and their embrace of fascism under Pinochet. Replacement theory is the prefect discourse to fill that void, offering a community of hate, now legitimated by a mix of power exercised by GOP politicians, a corporate controlled web of cultural apparatuses (Murdoch in particular}, and political system driven entirely by big money and a financial elite. Fascist politics and white supremacy is all they have left as a world view.

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As a Christian woman, these people are nuts. They are pseudo-Christians who have rejected the Gospel. And our God is not a fool.

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What is it about the "Jewish People and Allied Elites" that keep occurring in history. I have gone back to the Essenes and the writings of Josephus, among others, and still have no clear answer. I have traced back to Ramses and the well known stories, nothing. Mesopotamia, the City of Ur, birth of modern civilization, Zoroastrians Priests, Astrology, still no clear answer. I have read that Abraham was a contemporary of Hermes Trismegistus and can be traced to certain lost information............... Ukraine has the 4th largest population of Jewish people in Europe. Interesting fact, given that a Fascist madman is bombing them into annihilation. Currently, Western Europe is not a friend of the Jews and far right Nationalism is on the steady rise there, as well as the US........... Replacement theory, at its core, is about Jews, as your reference to George Soros indicates. Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and everyone else, except White, is seen as secondary to Jews. Why are we seeing the advancement of mass psychosis at this point in history, AGAIN. Why are the Jews at the center of the current uproar? Will we see a confluence of seemingly innocent connections continue to rise, as Tim Snyder points too in, "Black Earth", leading toward more unspeakable horrors ? Is the world living in the 1930's again.................... What is it about the Jews, Allied Elites, Fascists acting out primal fear and World History.............. This affects everyone. We will all be called on to stand accountable. Will we stand for truth, or silently side with Fascism. Will we be with The White Rose, or the SS. Will we place our life on the line for friends and truth.............. Seems, we are out of a Formula. The line is being drawn.

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These are challenging times and we need your voice and clear vision if we are going to keep our country alive and well.

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Thank you Ruth for tying Carlson into this historical timeline. Also, in thinking about Elise Stefanik’s call to starve babies at the border by taking formula away, and then voting against a program to provide more formula, I see the Republicans as trying to get rid of those they see as ‘useless eaters.’ Another parallel.

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