Originally published at: How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory
FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of the America they fear. It’s a booming, Texas city home to the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility and a PGA golf resort. The activists’ problem? The city’s population of Indian immigrants and people of Indian descent has grown dramatically in recent years as the…
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It’s like they want the economy to die on the vine. When immigrants move in and help economic growth they feel like it’s a conspiracy. Just sad.
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“Not a racist” says racist second-generation immigrant thug who wants to shut the door behind him. I’m wondering just what you have to do to get six months in jail on a misdemeanor harassment charge against your former boss…
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[F]ar-right activists shared a photo online of a Frisco scout troop at a city council meeting. The troop appeared to be composed of children of South Asian descent; activists cast it as an example of the Great Replacement.
Far-right people also like to claim “tHEsE pEOPle nEvER aSsIMMIlAtE!”
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Keeping this story in mind the next time a South Asian Republican embraces racist/white nationalist policies because they see themselves as white and believe they’ll be safe from the blowback.
@dave_mb For bigots maintaining the racial hierarchy is worth eating shit.
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MAGA Republicans, especially in Texas, are of two minds. Both are racist, hateful, self-serving, and hypocritical.
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I wonder how much this kind of racism will make companies think twice about moving to Texas. Those types of campaigns won’t have purchase in urban California, NY, Illinois, etc. In any case, interesting how the names of many of those people pushing this nonsense don’t seem particularly ‘heritage American’
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Depends on whether the CEO or stockholders agree with the racism.
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Frisco = Southlake = Plano 25 years ago.
It’s not all racist white people, but it’s where the racist white people thought there weren’t supposed to be any scary brown people.
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It’s simple racism - the local whites just don’t like to see people of color in their neighborhoods that had been mostly white before. They say the Indian growth “is stealing our jobs”, but those jobs are available to anyone with the desired skills and education, which suggests that the local white population doesn’t meet those requirements. Seems the local white population, generally speaking, doesn’t much like the apparent fact that their own demographic doesn’t have the qualifications, so they want to ban everyone who doesn’t look just like them.
Perhaps one day, we’ll be able to co-exist without the great replacement BS 24/7
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Nobody is local to Frisco. They all moved there.
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Exactly. Lots of these “Heritage Americans” don’t do irony well.
Pretty much the entire history of Texas is replacement. Were not the valiant fighters in the Alamo American immigrants to Texas trying erase or displace the existing population?
(Yes, I know, far few people. Probably the entire population of Texas at the time could fit into one of those 15,000 seat HS football palaces Texas is known for.)
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“They all moved there.” Except for the indigenous folks, pretty much the case for the rest of us since the 15th century.
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Be careful now! My grandson was a highschool All American football player who got to play in the Cowboys palace.
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This. And, also applies to MAGA more broadly as the orange “lower prices, no new wars” dottard blows up the economy and the world and most of MAGA meekly just slurps it up.
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I, back in my very young years, late grade school into middle school (we called it Junior High) in the semi bible-belt fisherman / semi military town of my birth, developed what I now realize was a nascent view of US American “exceptionalism.”
The premise basically consisted of an idea that one of the main reasons the US had achieved so much was that, despite its flaws (of which my schooling though commendable had barely scratched the surface), was comprised of people who had the drive to leave the established ways of their families and cultures and venture to an entirely different land to pursue life. And that drive alone, collectively, created conditions to form a strong nation. Regardless of where they came from or what job any specific individual might actually do once they arrived, be it janitorial or entrepreneurial, these were the kind of people who wanted to build something for themselves, their families and their communities.
When I read articles like this, I recognize that my early premise had some truth, considering it was just one of many things I pondered while running otherwise monotonous long-distance training for cross-county and track. I hadn’t really considered the intense racial and cultural conflict that accompanied the development of the nation, mainly because I hadn’t yet learned it. But, even then, there are many examples from our nation’s history that from that strife a respectable pluralistic society emerged.
The one thing I hadn’t considered was what happens when this “bright young stock” of immigrants eventually give way to stodgy, stingy and abhorrently racist views of later generations who were handed the golden ring due to the sacrifices and drives of their fore-parents (which really ought to be a word) and have now become people who would rather drag everyone else down over uniting to build anything. And nowadays, some of them can make a mint as neo-propagandists, which means they win from the havoc they leave in their wake from espousing unfiltered their abhorrently hateful views.
Some would call those individuals who sink so low “deplorable.” Come to think of it, one woman did, and it (among other things I know) likely cost her the presidency.
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Pretty funny, this Friday I’m going to the Dallas area to attend an Indian wedding for my wife’s niece. Can’t wait to see the big crowd of Indian-Americans.
On a similar Indian-American note, I hadn’t realized but apparently ethnic Gujarati (an even more specific group of Indians!) own over 40% of all hotels in America. When I asked why we were staying at a hotel 15 minutes away from the venue, the guess was that it was related to one of the families at the wedding.
Also don’t forget about the tigers and bears, oh my!
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That comment about how the Germans assimilated in Texas dredged up a memory of people my grandparents’ age (born in 1910) singing Silent Night in German in a church with a membership of mostly German surnames in the 1970s. The German Americans, like my great grandparents who moved here in the 1890s, abandoned German because of WWI when the Kaiser and Germans were the enemy. They were the foreigners then, taking over America that rightfully belonged to the descendants of the English and Scots Irish, according to the xenophobes of that era.
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TPM tracked the man down; he is Martin Padeti, a Republican candidate for justice of the peace in a neighboring county. Padeti said that he had voted for Trump in 2024 and was happy to have appeared in the video. When TPM asked how he felt about Oliveira using him as an example of the Indian immigration that he’s criticizing, Padeti replied, “that’s okay. I don’t take anything personally.”
A grifter by any other name is still a grifter. And Republican.
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I tend to think of us as a blight on this country. Came to this country with an attitude.
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