Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Evolutionary theories are necessarily ad hoc and fuzzy because they are just guesses dressed up as science. But such theories can still be suggestive.

The question arises about why a civilization would intentionally extinguish itself. Tucker's "replacement theory" is way beyond the bounds of the popular meaning of "theory" and it is instead a reality.

There's a political aspect, for sure. But underlying this must be a forerunner impulse. Why the trumped-up self-guilt, especially by stupid white women (but not only stupid white women, of course)?

First, it seems obvious that any minority tribe (black or Hispanic, in this case) is going to automatically find it advantageous to marginalize the majority. Grievances, real or imagined, fuel this animosity. And don't hold your breath waiting for the better angels of man's nature to declare that we are all people, despite our color, so we should all be treated equally. That's true, of course. But it's been bastardized by the Left as a concept...to the point that to not divide people by color is considered racist. Totally crazy, of course, but there it is.

Second, (and this is where evolutionary theory comes in), I watched a video once about tribes of chimpanzees in the jungle. These tribes fight quite similarly to human tribes, or at least for the same reasons. They fight for dominance, territory, food sources, and perhaps for the sheer sport of it. And the males do the fighting, of course. But what I found most interesting is that the females (often surreptitiously) went out of their way to mate with the outsiders, even apparently encouraging them to attack what we humans would call "the status quo." So Tucker's "replacement theory" is in complete alignment with evolutionary explanations of what females want. They want other males from the outside to challenge existing males who hold the power structure.

Well, you won't knock me over with a feather to suggest that this facilitation of the invasion of illegal aliens and the putting on the pedestal of "people of color" (other than Jews and Asians) is a female thing. Men, with all restraints off, will instead tend to murder and exterminate other tribes, not let them in. Is there anything in the history books of a culture intentionally replacing itself with foreigners? Certainly this happens if you import a bunch of slaves, or accept (as Rome did) foreigners into your legions simply because you needed the warm bodies. But if "replacement" ever came, could one argue that it was almost always unforeseen and accidental rather than intentional?

Obviously the third element is the political aspect. The Left is hostile to existing power structures and orders and will use any means to tear them down. Even so, I do think it's a muddle of influences that have led to our current situation whereby we can't, or won't, even take a realistic look at "colonialization," for example, lest it piss of those who have made grievance and hostility toward the West their religion.

There is no doubt about that.