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It is not “racist” to observe that if the inbound population is high and the native population isn’t reproducing that it is a replacement.

People need to stop allowing themselves to get shamed into not stating facts, personal observations, math and logic.

This author is non credible.

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The issue is what replacement means, no? The racist tone of it comes from "replacement of white people" being an endeavour conspired by the State to dislodge white people, instead of a natural state of affairs where immigrants have a higher fertility rate than the native population. Characterising such state of affairs as "the end of civilisation" then becomes extremely racist.

Discourse does not exist in a vacuum, replacement has a semantic meaning in this discourse apart from the literal one...

Elon Musk is saying this openly on twitter. It’s not racist. It’s mainstream discussion.

> It’s not racist. It’s mainstream discussion.

Those are not opposites, it can be a racist mainstream discussion. What does Elon Musk have to do with the argument?

So we’ve entered the dark times where if Elon says something it’s validated as not racist and completely sane.

How is it not racist to think of shifting racial demographics as the end of civilization? We are a proud nation of immigrants. America is an idea not an ethnicity.

I think you answered your own question.

This is laughably bad faith. Tucker isn't "observing" that the (I will not use the word native as that's fucking ridiculous given US history) population is becoming less "white". Demographers are, and have been for decades. No Tucker, Musk and all these other racists are shouting that it's a problem and the end of civilization. They're shouting about rape and crime and all sorts of other crap. It's racist at its core and people like you trying to carry water for it and whitewash it as just an observation deserve strict scrutiny and derision.

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