My thoughts on “replacement” provoked by Annieli’s column https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2098012/-When-a-right-wing-host-pimps-white-replacement-theory-on-MSM-WTF-do-you-think-was-going-to-happen
Were I concerned about being replaced, it’s difficult to see how attempting to kill as many people as possible might enhance my holding onto that place. While those I might be able to kill (tho I probably wouldn't be much of a shot but with a sprayer gun…) wouldn’t replace me, my actions whether by prosecution or responsive shooting certainly would remove me as a place holder. Where is the logic?
Long ago I began a piece about ethnicity with a comment about my representing the melting pot which is my country’s greatest strength. Looking at our country’s accomplishments, one has to wonder how we might have fared as a “racially[/ethnically] pure” nation. The wonderful humorist Sam Levenson once recounted a few of the many contributions of Jews to medicine finishing with the observation that you could hate Jews, but you weren’t going to feel very good. Neil deGrasse Tyson whose humor wonderfully facilitates his promotion of science generally as well as his astrophysics, did a somewhat droll piece (“What keeps me awake nights…”) about the tremendous contributions to science of the Muslim world. He concluded with the explanation for why those mostly are buried in the sands of time while wondering where we might be had we the benefit of continued contribution from two billion Muslims.
These two recollections are joined by Professor Tyson’s noting the absurdly disproportionate number of Nobel prizes bestowed upon Jews and the tiny number upon Muslims. The Jewish population (15.1 million) has claimed 192 prizes compared with the 12, including three in science, by the two billion Muslims.
To me, the point is that if you think you can replace me, go for it to the benefit of both of us.