To paraphrase the great H. L. Mencken, for any and every event that happens, the legacy media will invariably latch onto an explanation that is “neat, plausible, and wrong”. Lately, the legacy media have an all-purpose, no-thinking-needed explanation for absolutely anything and everything: racism!
In the case of the horrifying mass murder in Buffalo last week, that explanation is, for once, right. The killer was deeply racist, no doubt about it.
Of course, the legacy media’s gimlet-eyed ability to spot racism as a motive for mass murder is strangely selective. When a virulent racist rammed a car into a Christmas parade last year, or when another outspoken racist shot up a subway train in Brooklyn weeks ago, the legacy media walked away whistling. Joe Biden certainly didn’t bother gracing the survivors of either racist attack with a presidential visit.
Only a cynic would suggest that that was because the racist perps in those cases were both black.
But I digress…
It’s beyond doubt that the Buffalo murderer is a racist, who cited the “crazy conspiracy theory” of the Great Replacement as a motive. From there, though, the legacy media pivoted to heaping the blame on conservatives. Not least of all, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, even though the killer’s manifesto doesn’t mention Carlson once, and only mentions Fox to damn it as just another Jewish puppet organisation.
So, if it wasn’t from Tucker Carlson, Fox News or conservatives that the crazy obsession that Democrats are using mass immigration to replace white Americans for electoral gains originated, where on earth did it come from?
Here’s Democratic consultant Patrick Reddy in 1998:
“The 1965 Immigration Reform Act promoted by President Kennedy, drafted by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and pushed through the Senate by Ted Kennedy has resulted in a wave of immigration from the Third World that should shift the nation in a more liberal direction within a generation. It will go down as the Kennedy family’s greatest gift to the Democratic Party.”
Oh, but, hey that’s just one Democrat…
Then in 2002, Democrats Ruy Teixeira and John Judis wrote “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” arguing that demographic changes, mostly by immigration, were putting Democrats on a glide path to an insuperable majority. After Obama’s reelection in 2012, Teixeira crowed in The Atlantic (which was then a magazine that people read, as opposed to a billionaire widow’s charity) that “ten years farther down this road,” Obama lost the white vote outright, but won the election with the minority vote — African-Americans (93-6), Hispanics (71-27) and Asian-Americans (73-26).
A year later, the National Journal‘s Ron Brownstein began touting the “Coalition of the Ascendant,” gloating that Democrats didn’t need blue-collar whites anymore. Woo hoo! Obama “lost more than three-fifths of noncollege whites and whites older than 45.” But who cares? He crushed with “minorities (a combined 80%).”
“Adios, Reagan Democrats,” he says gleefully.
Okay, but apart from those Democrats…
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg’s 2019 book, RIP GOP, explains the coming death of the Republican Party as a result of … sucking up to Wall Street? Pushing pointless wars? Endlessly cutting taxes? NO! The GOP’s demise would come from the fact that “our country is hurtling toward a New America that is ever more racially and culturally diverse … more immigrant and foreign born.”
Where the Democrats lead, the legacy media obediently follow.
On MSNBC, they’re constantly sneering about “old white men” and celebrating the “browning of America.” A group called Battleground Texas boasts about flipping that deep red state to the Democrats — simply by getting more Hispanics to vote […] MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid tweets that she is “giddy” watching “all the bitter old white guys” as Ketanji Brown Jackson “makes history.”
But perhaps the biggest hypocrite when it comes the replacement theory is “anti-racism academic” Tim Wise. Since Buffalo, Wise has been the go-to guy for the legacy media, leftsplaining how the Great Replacement is nothing but a racist figment of the right’s racist imagination.
Yet, here’s Wise in 2010, celebrating that whites, rich and poor, are “on the endangered list”
“And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.
“In 40 years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave It to Beaver …” […]
“It’s OK. Because in about 40 years, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Takimag
You know, if the left didn’t want people to think there’s a Great Replacement going on, they might want to stop telling everyone who’ll listen that there’s a Great Replacement going on. Because, sooner or later, someone is going to take them seriously — and we get another Buffalo.
