Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD Mod Note Added 02/09/25

iffandonlyif · 03-12-2025 09:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124035638#Comment_124035638

As I understand it, the ‘great replacement theory’ predicts that elites are intentionally importing immigrants so as to shore up electoral support, undermine western civilisation, or some other malign motive. I think we can dismiss that out of hand. But what the bogus theory predicts will happen is actually what is happening! - i.e. unprecedented levels of immigration undermining social cohesion. The Western establishment has been handed their response on a plate: they get to dismiss the great replacement theory as racist and delusional, and because it is so close to reality, they thereby discredit anyone warning legitimately about the effects of mass migration. And of course the media has no interest in challenging them on it.

I wish i could remember where I heard it, but some NGO-type immigrant was saying that it’s not a replacement because no one is being forced out; if anything, it’s a dilution. But that’s hardly any better! We’re supposed to just happily accept being diluted? (It’s also another example of deflection: replacement can just mean that western monoculture is being replaced by multiculturalism - that doesn’t mean anyone is being forced out).

Immigrants and their children don’t realise what it’s like to see their country’s demographics change radically. Perhaps the progressive language of ‘lived-experience’ could be used against them - they don’t have the lived-experienced of feeling increasingly alienated in the country they’ve known their whole lives. It’s gentrification at a national level, and we all know how much the left hates gentrification.