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RainDog

(28,784 posts)
3. It bothers me too
Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:50 PM
Nov 2012

...because it fits in with all the other "find an enemy" rhetoric right wing pols have used for decades.

Now it's their fellow citizens who are framed as "the enemy."

The ridiculous thing about this is the projection that, by 2050, iirc, there will still be a 47% white population. Various other groups make up the other %s and not one of them hits 30%.

It seems that the people going on about this are trying to appeal to groups that don't have much interaction with a broad variety of people.

So, the real reason this rhetoric bothers me is that it sounds too close to the sort of fear-mongering you hear from white power hate groups, aka America's nazis.

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