1/ The right claims the left wants to "replace" white Americans w/immigrants of color, but if it were up to the left, the global economic order would be more equitable, reducing misery in poor nations, thus reducing migration. Right-wing economics ensure misery and migration...
2/ Ironically, if the left got our way, folks of color in the global south would be better off right where they are, less desperate (and thus less likely to migrate) and wouldn't see coming to the US as the last best hope. But trade policy supported by neo-libs in both parties...
3/ ...along with militarism, support for authoritarianism in the global south, and resource extraction for the benefit of the global north, causes desperate folks to take desperate measures. Left policy would diminish that suffering (global labor standards, etc)...
4/ Additionally, the other factor driving demographic change (a larger factor than immigration) is differential fertility. Not because women of color are particularly fertile but bc white women have median age of around 43, thus ensuring a declining % of white babies...
5/ But here too, it is the right whose policies and ideology ensure differential fertility. When women have more access to good education and jobs they have fewer kids. The left wants all women (and these women of color who are younger, on average) to have that access...
6/ It is the right that would limit their opportunities in the name of traditional families, patriarchal dominance, etc. So ironically, if we did what the left wants, women of color would get more education, have fewer kids, and the demographic shift would actually slow...
7/...while following the course set by the right (less opportunity for women of color) will ensure higher birth rates & faster demographic shifts. Bottom line, if you're worried about "replacement" (which is racist & absurd), right wing policies are the best way to guarantee it..
8/ Proving that racists are not just, well, racist, but also stupid as hell and don't understand how things work...
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