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| Crossing the Rio Grande, Ciudad Acuna, Mexico |
Most Americans are not in favour if illegal immigration.
(“Undocumented migrants” if you must).
That’s pretty much the same as any immigrant-rich country -- Australia, Canada, the UK, the EU. Their residents support immigration; they don’t support illegal immigration; open borders.
Yet, for cynical political purposes, and in the wake of the Buffalo massacre by a loony white supremacist, it’s bruited that any concern with open borders, any concern with numbers of illegals, is part of the “Great Replacement Theory” (GRT). This criticism is pushed by those who hew to “Critical Race Theory” (CRT), itself a kind of racial essentialism, a “theory” racist to its core.
Sad times we are in, on this issue. The thoughtful Andrew Sullivan has his take, of which these are the concluding paras:
CRT and GRT are in a deadly and poisonous dance in our culture. They foster ever-increasing levels of racial identity in each other; they demonize whole populations because of skin color; they both believe liberal democracy is rigged against them; and the logic of their mutual, absolutist racial politics is civil conflict, not democratic deliberation.
If we are to get past the kind of ugly violence and race essentialism in Great Replacement Theory, then we also need an antidote to the toxins of Critical Race Theory. The two illiberalisms are profoundly connected. They need each other. And, in their racialized heart, they are morally exactly the same.
The sinister symmetry of CRT and GRT
RELATED: On “Intersectional Theory”, a subset of CRT: “... the modern intersectional argument is so facially false that it borders on the nonsensical.” By Wilfred Reilly.
