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the_real_orange_joe t1_j25624i wrote

We need to acknowledge that a number of city officials engage in "great replacement" conspiracy theories where the mere existence of white people is offensive. Kristin Richardson Jordan is another example of one such individual, who actively stopped a gas station turned into a development which would have been 50% affordable. These racists make everything worse for everyone.

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Silo-Joe t1_j25flgh wrote

Many of Carranza's DOE staff was definitely not inclusive of people with ethnicities that differed from their own.

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sutisuc t1_j272p4w wrote

How would that make sense if the staff was multiracial?

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Silo-Joe t1_j27dkfb wrote

I worked at a company that was trying to partner with the DOE. All non-Hispanic people at my company were disinvited from any meeting with Carranza’s people.

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stansvan t1_j2ce72d wrote

So much blatant racism was ignored while he ran the DOE.

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prisoner_007 t1_j25y4c8 wrote

I’m not sure you know what the great replacement conspiracy is.

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the_real_orange_joe t1_j262y12 wrote

I understand the “normal” white supremacist conspiracy theory is about white people being replaced. But extremely similar conspiracy theories are built around the replacement of black people, In DC this is called “the plan [1]”. Basically racists aren’t particularly creative because racism appeals to the same lizard brain parts of us. I used the term “great replacement” because it’s more broadly known.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plan_(Washington,_D.C.)

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sutisuc t1_j26kvg8 wrote

Yeah that’s not a thing. Call it something else. Words and ideas have meaning and you don’t get to make them up as you go to suit your purposes.

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sutisuc t1_j26ksi3 wrote

That’s not what the great replacement theory is and you know it. Don’t engage in deliberate obfuscation.

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