Great Replacement Hypocrisy

    The current anti-immigrant theory is the latest in a centuries-old series of efforts to block newcomers from coming to America.
   The keep-out campaigns reached a height in the mid-19th Century as bigotry against Irish and Italian immigrants became blatant. In the first half of the 20th Century, that prejudice focused on people from Eastern Europe.

  Throughout both centuries, bigotry against Asians was so common as to result in Congressional action to limit their numbers and prevent them from citizenship. Now, the prejudice focuses on people from Hispanic nations of Central and South America.
   All these blockage campaigns stressed variations on the slogan, "America for the Americans." The current anti-immigrant slogan is called the "Great Replacement Theory," and warns that the newcomers' goal is not to join traditional American society, but to replace it with theirs.
   However, the avowed tradition of America has long been to blend elements of the arriving culture with those already here.
   Bigots claim otherwise, conveniently forgetting that they too are beneficiaries of the Open Door, as noted on the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

   And there is the historical reality that many of the peoples already here welcomed the newcomers until the immigrants began to take away what had been lands occupied by the tribes for centuries.

   History is often a variation of the same story.