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DEBUNKING MYTHS
Replacement Theory
Tucker Carlson has a point — he just doesn’t know what it is
Tucker Carlson is confused. He thinks Christian white men are supposed to be the ones in charge, get the best jobs, and earn the most money. He doesn’t understand that in a true democracy when the people in charge fail miserably, they get voted out. In a true democracy, dead weight doesn’t get rewarded — so if the White guy isn’t delivering and the Black woman is, the White guy should be fired.
This is what democracy looks like when it works — Tucker thinks that’s what it looks like when it’s broken.
Part of the problem is that we’ve never had a true democracy, so for those of us promoting it, we must rely to some extent on our own imaginations. How might it look? How do we make it happen? What thinking do we need to change to get there?
These are the questions the rest of us are asking. Not Tucker.
Tucker’s world is crumbling around him and he’s afraid. He’s starting to see women and POC getting more respect, earning more money, becoming more integrated into the higher echelons of society and it’s killing him. This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be!
He’s trying to stop it, but he should realize you can’t stop something you don’t take…
