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I'm trying to be charitable here, so can you explain what you mean by liquidated? The phrasing here seems to imply you think Americans are being deliberately killed/destroyed/geocide-ed in order to make room for foreigners or immigrants and I'm just not aware of any evidence of that. If you're referring to falling birth rates, well, it isn't the foreigners' fault that Americans aren't having enough unprotected sex.
EDIT: Typo
What would qualify as evidence to you? The regular psy-ops trying to suppress white fertility? What about the federal government air dropping dysfunctional aliens with an incompatible culture that displace and destroy the natives? What about naked discrimination in hiring whites? What about teaching hatred of whites at every major university? What about extirpating whites from all their popular culture? What about the enormous disproportionate crime rates, with whites being the victims of black crime at several multiples per capita as black are of whites?
All I hear, over and over and over again justify the Hamas rape, murder and kidnapping spree is the Jewish "illegal settlements" encroaching on Palestinian land caused this, and people ignoring their plight gave them no other choice. However here at home, "no person is illegal". Either both are genocides, or neither is.
Uh, where did Hamas come into this? I made no mention of Hamas, Israel, or any of that in my comment. The fuck are you on about?
I think it's supposed to be pointing out how the same people who think it's justifiable or understandable for Palestinians to rape and murder people encroaching on their land also think that even the feeblest response from (white) Americans to the invasion of their land/replacement of their culture by immigrants or activist minorities is racist and morally unjustifiable.
I suppose the left would say that most black Americans have been in the US longer than most white ones.
which would be a funny parallel with the jews and the kingdom of Judea before the Romans did shenanigans in the region.
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You haven't been watching demographic ratios, fertility rates, or any of the other things that could count? Demographics
No, I suppose it's not their fault, but they're the ones I want kicked out of my country, so they're the ones who will suffer for it regardless. So it goes.
Have you read or heard of Left Behind in Rosedale? It's not intended to be, but it's a very good chronicle of the ethnic cleansing of whites in the post-civil rights act America. That's not birth rates, it's rape and murder and racially motivated predation of primarily older whites by younger black men.
If you're unaware, it's because you're not paying attention to the kind of people who have been telling you about it.
Given some of the statements you've made in this discussion, the US is very clearly not "your country". It's a cliche, but being part of the US is defined by ideals, not descent---this is taught in elementary school civics. You clearly do not fit these ideals.
I hate to dogpile this, but to echo the other replies with a twist, I would say that your statement would be true if this was still the 90's/early-to-mid 2000's. 90's civics with their colorblind idealism, however, are dead and rotting.
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Kicking someone out from where they grew up is a pretty extreme action. They will however be thought of as "unamerican" and deal with serious social consequences if those contrary ideals become widely known---the same way someone might be ostracized within but not exiled from of a stereotypical close-knit small town.
The difference in the US is that this ostracism doesn't happen based on just descent.
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Well that's rather beside the point, since they don't represent the ideals of America either.
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Yeah, since 1960. It is not original, it's a deliberate propaganda effort, one that I've chosen to reject. I do not believe that America is a nation of ideals, or of immigrants. I think those are lies meant to manipulate me and people like me, and they've mostly worked very well. However, they are lies that I reject.
It's what the majority of people in the country agree upon. What does it even mean to call something like this a lie? That it's different from what it used to be in the past? The culture that dominates now is superior practically and morally for reasons that have been written about a lot here.
And what is that?
Prior to 2015 same-sex marriage was illegal on the federal level, after that it was legal. Did same-sex marriage supporters become Americans in 2015 after decades of "America not being their country" and did same-sex marriage opponents stop being American after 2015?
Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022, did believers in federally-protected abortion stop being American while Roe opponents suddenly gained a new-found American identity?
I'm not talking about tense culture-war issues---I'm talking about more basic and universal points like the egalitarianism in "judge people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin", the idea that ambition is good, some notion of the idea behind meritocracy (even though the actual word might be corrupted) etc. Regardless of extreme voices amplified on the internet, 80-90% of Americans would strongly agree with these ideals, even if they might hide it behind some torturous word games (e.g. most advocates of something like affirmative action do so because they think that it's the best way to actually achieve colorblind egalitarianism).
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I think you know that's a rather markedly atypical use of the word "liquidate". I'm inclined to think you are trying to be deliberately inflammatory, and (poorly) pretending otherwise.
"Ah you see officer, when I said on twitter that Hamas should liquidate all the Jews I simply meant that they should be provided with refreshing beverages!"
How is purging American cities of an entire generation of white people anything but liquidation? Especially when you're lied to and told it's white flight and not ethnic cleaning.
"Liquidation" usually involves wholesale killing. I agree that what was called "white flight" was mostly ethnic cleansing. Philly War Zone, discussed a few years ago on one of the predecessors of this place goes into it also, and growing up I heard similar stories about Baltimore.
Yeah, I used liquidation because they're melting metal into liquid, and I genuinely believe that whites are being ethnically cleansed as much as is possible. It's not possible to completely eliminate whites, but the salami is being sliced every day, every year. It's wordplay.
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