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Originally Posted by grindy
I have a question about the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory. Are the conspiratards actually trying to give some reasons why those "shadowy elites" are replacing white people? In the US it seems to be at least partly about the dumbass rhetoric that the democrats try to increase their voter base. Is this the only reason they give, even in other countries? Or is it, as so often, that the conspiratards don't really care about asking why and just assume the "elites" are evil.
I read up a bit on Wikipedia etc. but didn't really find an answer and to be honest I'm a bit too disgusted to really do a deep dive into this topic.
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It's the same level of intellectualism that leads to "You can't spell 'crap' without 'rap'". The reasoning is fuzzy and flexible enough that your average, non-bat**** Republican can think that illegals are invading the country to take it over and/or the Democrats are secret communists who hate this country and want to destroy it and turn it into a vague Stalinist boogeyman, but you can probably argue them down to the Democrats just want enough illegals to take Texas so they can raise everyone's taxes or whatever.
And then as soon as you leave the room they go right back to believing crazy **** without any ill effects to their cognitive dissonance. And again I'm not talking about Qanon psychos, I'm talking normal conservatives. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to give them a satisfying narrative.