#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 6/1/2022
Today we take a look at the current conspiracy theory known as "The Great Replacement" which posits that a cabal of elites is conspiring to eradicate Whiteness as a culture and as a people in Europe, North America and other countries colonized by White Europeans. We also look at the history of the cabal of elites that conspired to eradicate Native peoples and culture from colonized lands in a pattern of genocide and dispossession.
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SHOW NOTES
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Discussing native residential schools as textbook genocide and the new, insufficient report on them.
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MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Tim Wise counsels that we must remain persistent in the anti-racism struggle and not surrender to exhaustion or otherwise be worn down by repetition.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on those who see themselves in a demographic war for White superiority
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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Description: An historic photograph from 1922 North West Territories, Canada of four Indigenous children in front of a schoolhouse holding paper letters and wearing Western formal dress - including dresses, suits, and top hats. All have serious and sad expressions.
Credit: "Children at Fort Simpson Indian Residential School holding letters that spell 'Goodbye'" by Libraries and Archives Canada, Flickr | License | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the current conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement, which posits |
| 0:12.1 | that a cabal of elites is conspiring to eradicate whiteness as a culture and as a people in |
| 0:18.3 | Europe, North America and other countries colonized by white Europeans. |
| 0:22.8 | But we also look at the history of the cabal of elites that conspired to eradicate native |
| 0:28.7 | peoples and culture from colonized lands in a pattern of genocide and dispossession. |
| 0:35.3 | And because I know you're curious, it was not planned but just a happy coincidence that |
| 0:39.9 | this is the topic for episode 1492. |
| 0:43.5 | Clips today are from Unepping the Republic, Past Present, Democracy Now, What Next, Let's |
| 0:50.3 | Talk Native, All in With Chris Hayes and an additional members only clip from the |
| 0:55.6 | Chaunce de Vega Show. |
| 1:03.0 | In 1886, US Indian agent Fletcher Coward described the difficulty in forcibly removing Apache |
| 1:09.9 | children from their parents in an effort to send them to federal boarding schools. |
| 1:14.7 | Quote, When called upon for children, the chiefs, almost without exception, declared there |
| 1:20.6 | were none suitable for schools in their camps. |
| 1:23.9 | Starting in the way of persuasion and argument having failed, it became necessary to visit |
| 1:28.6 | the camps unexpectedly with the detachment of Indian police and seize such children as |
| 1:34.9 | were proper and take them away to school, willing or unwilling. |
| 1:40.0 | Some hurried their children off to the mountains or hid them away in a camp and the Indian |
| 1:44.8 | police had to chase and capture them like so many wild rabbits. |
| 1:52.0 | This excerpt is from the recently released report from the Department of the Interior under |
| 1:58.8 | Secretary Deb Holland. |
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