Mario Strada
2 min readAug 23, 2023

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"The Great Replacement Theory" besides being complete racist hogwash, is also wrong on several levels. It's not going to happen, not ever.

It may change percentages here and there, but the "White Race" so dear to American grown fascists is in no danger of going extinct.

I remember watching a YouTube video on birth rates, at the dawn of the platform (so 240p and shot with a potato) that showed how populations tended toward zero or even negative growth based on income, not race or ethnicity.

In fact, if I recall the video correctly, race wasn't part of it at all. It was all based on standard of living and geographical location (I just searched for the video, but it must be close to 15 years old and who knows if it's still available).

According to the video, poverty increases birth rates, but as a populations gets wealthier, their rate of reproduction get smaller and eventually go negative, as it has already happened in many wealthy and emerging economies and it will happen more and more.

In other words, it's not race, culture or ethnicity, but wealth. The more secure a people feels, the fewer children they have. Earth shattering, I know.

For proponents of the "Great Replacement" theory, this should be a lesson in interpreting statistics and the danger of extrapolating momentary trends, but then how would they push their racist agenda?

Besides, if Tucker Carlson were to be "replaced" by a nice latino kid, maybe a "Dreamer", I think it would be a net positive for society in general.

I'd be happy to practice my Spanish with him or her and we'd be speaking a language far more common to both of us than whatever Carlson grunts on his shows while looking at the camera with his patented "WTF+" expression.

P.S. I'll keep looking for the video. I only invested 10 minutes so far and all I have found is doom and gloom warnings about there not being enough kids born to replace us boomers and Gen-Xers.

I thought overpopulation was a problem.

I realize the short term issues concerning low birth rates, but overall I think it can be managed and as a result we can achieve a better future for everyone and everything with fewer of us around.

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Mario Strada

I was born in Italy, but I lived for the past 30+ years in the USA.