By Steve Sailer
02/12/2020
From my review in Takiâs Magazine of Ezra Kleinâs new Why Weâre Polarized:
The good news, according to Klein, is that âwhite Christiansâ are being demographically inundated in what Ezra calls the Browning of America.
The bad news, according to Ezra, is that some whites have started to notice the fate that is being prepared for them, and thus they voted for Trump. Klein says that the media should try harder to mislead white Christians about demographic change so that they donât see it coming until itâs too late for them to do anything about it:
As we navigate these sensitivities, we can do so with more or less care. [Jennifer] Richeson believes it would be wise for demographers to stop using terms like âmajority-minority Americaâ â after all, whites will still be a plurality and what good can come of framing Americaâs trajectory in a way that leaves the single largest group feeling maximally threatened? It sounds like âa force of nonwhite people who are coming and they are working as a coalition to overturn white people and whiteness,â Richeson says. âThatâs a problem.â
Yet of course, as Ezra makes clear throughout his book, thatâs not just a problem, thatâs also the plan.
Ezra points out that if you simply lie to whites about what you are plotting, many of them will foolishly believe you:
Richesonâs research shows that if you can add reassurances to discussions of demographic change â telling people, for instance, that the shifts are unlikely to upend existing power or economic arrangements â the sense of threat, and the tilt toward racial and political conservatism, vanishes.
But, Klein and Professor Richeson conclude, with regret, you canât fool all the white Christians all the time:
The problem, she admits, is âwe canât say, âDonât worry, white people, youâll be okay and youâll get to run everything forever!ââ
Read the whole thing there.