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by chuckee 1682 days ago
> is a conspiracy theory about how

You mean a conspiracy theory about why. Though the article does not dispute that demographic changes are taking place, or even that they are the result of deliberate changes of immigration policy, it does go to great lengths to avoid mentioning them. This is not by accident - there is a lively debate on its talk page about including (more) demographic statistics*, to which the editors are highly resistant.

For example, there is not a single graph found in the entire article similar to that at the beginning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_France

Like refusing to mention JFK is dead on JFK assassination conspiracy articles.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Replacement#Lack_of... among others
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glogla 1682 days ago
No, it is still nonsense.

The whole idea of "our people" being replaced by "those other people" assumes there are "our people" and "those other people" and skin color (or more broadly ethnicity of their ancestors) is the way you recognize which is which.

It assumes that culture is unchanging and tied to skin color. It assumes that birth rates are unchaining in time and tied to skin color. It assumes that demographics of birth rate are relevant in less than hundreds of years - during which culture can completely change (see US or Russia or China in 1821, 1921 and 2021).

The whole idea is based on stupid, racist thinking.

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chuckee 1682 days ago
It seems to me all it needs to assume is that genetic* ancestry/ethnicity matters - i.e. it has some effect beyond just appearance (if you think caring about appearance is illegitimate). Could you explain why all those other strict assumptions are necessary?

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed this question shifts us from "it's not happening" to "it's happening but it doesn't matter". Is that your claim now, and you're conceding that it is happening? Or would "it's not happening but if it did it wouldn't matter" be closer to your opinion?

*'Genetic' to separate it from the culture and customs that are also passed down through ancestry.

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