The Great Replacement
-
Douglas Mercer
- Posts: 10963
- Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:29 pm
Re: The Great Replacement
https://europeanconservative.com/articl ... -disaster/
Yet observing that there has been a change of people requires us to venture onto more delicate terrain than the question of the latest and entirely provisional foreigners. I’m referring to the question of what a people is, a vast subject that we will not fully exhaust. In the thriving traffic in statistics relating to the Great Replacement, one of the most effective tools has an undeniable legal foundation. It takes refuge there, as one might take refuge in an impregnable fortress, and it is quite right to do so. For, to a certain degree, it is just that. I am speaking of the claim according to which there is only one kind of French person and its well-known and particularly fearsome polemical variant, that no one is more French than anyone else. Thus a veiled woman with a shaky command of our language, entirely ignorant of our culture and, worse yet, overflowing with vindictiveness and animosity, if not hatred, for our history and civilization will be perfectly able to say—and she usually does not miss the chance, particularly when she finds herself on television—to a native Frenchman with a passionate interest in Roman churches, the finer points of vocabulary and syntax, Montaigne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burgundy wine, and Proust and whose family has for several generations lived in the same little valley of the Vivarais or Périgord, from which it has observed or suffered through the many twists and turns of our history, this veiled woman can thus perfectly well say and usually not in a very friendly way: “I am just as French as you are,” if indeed it’s not “more French”, as I believe I have heard on such occasions.
Yet observing that there has been a change of people requires us to venture onto more delicate terrain than the question of the latest and entirely provisional foreigners. I’m referring to the question of what a people is, a vast subject that we will not fully exhaust. In the thriving traffic in statistics relating to the Great Replacement, one of the most effective tools has an undeniable legal foundation. It takes refuge there, as one might take refuge in an impregnable fortress, and it is quite right to do so. For, to a certain degree, it is just that. I am speaking of the claim according to which there is only one kind of French person and its well-known and particularly fearsome polemical variant, that no one is more French than anyone else. Thus a veiled woman with a shaky command of our language, entirely ignorant of our culture and, worse yet, overflowing with vindictiveness and animosity, if not hatred, for our history and civilization will be perfectly able to say—and she usually does not miss the chance, particularly when she finds herself on television—to a native Frenchman with a passionate interest in Roman churches, the finer points of vocabulary and syntax, Montaigne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Burgundy wine, and Proust and whose family has for several generations lived in the same little valley of the Vivarais or Périgord, from which it has observed or suffered through the many twists and turns of our history, this veiled woman can thus perfectly well say and usually not in a very friendly way: “I am just as French as you are,” if indeed it’s not “more French”, as I believe I have heard on such occasions.