“Great Replacement” Paranoia Will Lead to a Handmaid’s Tale Dystopia

Immigration restrictions won’t stop the browning of America: only ending women’s rights — even white women’s — can do that

Tim Wise

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Image, Miki Jourdan, Flickr, Creative Commons, 2.0 Generic license

Building a wall won’t be enough.

Neither will rounding up millions of undocumented folks and shipping them out of the country in cattle cars, planes, or buses.

Putting aside the impracticality and immorality of both actions, even on the terms favored by their advocates, such things would fail to deliver.

Though immigration restrictionists insist walls and deportation are needed to halt the “Great Replacement” of traditional American culture and “legacy Americans” — by which they mean white folks, even if they don’t say it — the demographic shifts about which they are so concerned, actually have little to do with immigration at all.

As such, even were we to end all immigration to the U.S. by brown-skinned folks from the global south — documented or not — America would continue to become less white.

Because the issue has never been immigration.

The issue is birth rates.

Don’t misunderstand. I’m not parroting the right-wing myth that Black and brown…

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Senior Fellow, African American Policy Forum, critical race theorist, and author of 9 books on racism and racial inequity in the U.S.

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