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This week, Briahna was joined by host of The Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, to do a deep dive into Great Replacement Theory and the manifesto written by the Buffalo shooter. They acknowledge that on some level Tucker Carlson was right: Democrats have long been vocal about their hope that "the browning of America" will inure to their electoral benefit. But where is the line between observing geographic trends as disadvantageous, and seeing immigration as a form of genocide? Who is responsible for the liberal discourse getting so nonsensical that it is easily co-opted and flipped by conservatives? What are the parallels between America's preemptive military "invasions" and the mass murders conducted by those who see themselves as soldiers in a race war? And is Irami right that there is a serious "white culture" problem afoot?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Comments

Anonymous

Irami uses exactly the same talking points that my white racist grandpa uses, it’s uncanny. He’s like a black David Duke.

Dez Martin

I'm from Binghamton and live in endicott . Awful way to hear about my hometown

enter_krzysz

Loved this conversation; like a great reform vs revolution discussion 🔥

Anonymous

I like this guy. He’s keeping it honest and explicit in a way Bri (understandably because of her audience) tends to avoid. The shooter is not abnormal when compared to American history and culture. The USA kills people for less all the time.

Anonymous

Like the yt settler family is a racist institution but you can see the white tears in this comment section reflecting the delusion of Americans. No one is saying cross racial working class solidarity isn’t possible or necessary. But y’all don’t wanna take ur heads out the sand to see the class collaboration that is whiteness.

Anonymous

FYI the sound for the debrief ep cuts out around 1hr 20min... both on callin & Spotify.

Avram A Hartman

It just seems so obvious to me that the phrase "white replacement" is on its face racist. The implication is that "white" is a monolithic identity that should be the default in this country, and any threat to white hegemony constitutes an "invasion". Just look at the language. It's transparent racism. Somebody says "white replacement", but insists they don't mean it in a racist way? That's ludicrous.

Joey Trimboli

Wasn’t the whole conversation about the concept of the “great replacement” not the “white replacement”? You could argue they mean the same thing and that’s fine, or that “great replacement” and the discourse around it as used by Tucker Carlson is explicitly racial in its language and not dressed up at all. But if you just change the phrase to something explicitly racial like “white replacement” then yeah it’s now explicitly racist. This isn’t to say that Tucker never says anything that is on its face explicitly racist, just that the argument being proffered here is that he tends to dress it up in a way that provides plausible deniability and cover so that he can’t be successfully rhetorically outmaneuvered in the minds of his adherents using only the language of “that’s racist!” I’m not sure who in this discussion is saying the phrase “white replacement” which yes is indeed an explicitly racial phrase that would give away the game because it uses the word “white.”

43rd CEC 2/3 ACR

Word games, that is all that is happening. “Whiteness” does not exist other than for two reasons, 1) A normalization of Xenophobia designed to exclude exploitable communities under the disguise of “civilized society” 2) A legislative cudgel to reward those that enable the exploitation, and punish those deemed “enemies of the state” in order to justify the full might of military intervention as the domestic & foreign market economics will bear. But sure, let’s keep playing semantics on why a CIA reject has anything “original” to contribute to the conversation. 😹🥶👹💯

Anonymous

I love the pointed perspective. It’s making me see things a little differently. My only question would be, is there a difference in poverty at the same level between one ethnicity vs another? When I see homelessness, it’s often both white and black - and neither seem better or worse off at that point. So, is there a reason to differentiate- or is it enough to say “people in this circumstance have this quality of life”. ? And maybe add the % or the qualitative context. But to say a generalization about certain groups of people don’t experience certain levels of hardship in the US feels weird to me. 🤷‍♀️ but I haven’t thought about it enough. Interesting discussion!

Avram A Hartman

Right, but who do you think they're talking about when they say "great replacement"? They mean white people. The fact that they point to the democrats' demographic strategy as evidence of it makes that obvious.

Cory

I don't mind him being inflammatory and using "The Whites" as a category and saying that redistribution will necessitate the liberation of capital from white people. But I feel like these conversations with him always struggle to stay on track and that's what I dislike.

Anonymous

The fragility is real 😅

Lionel Boyd Johnson

How do you know he was rejected by the CIA and not doing exactly what they asked him to do??? "We'd love to have you come work for The Company on the inside, but you'd be much more useful in the outside..." There are tons of documented ties between mainstream media and intelligence, not clear what makes you so sure he's not one of them.