After the massacre in Buffalo, New York,
discussion of white replacement theory is front and center.
And the question of how many voters in America actually believe that white
people are being intentionally replaced by people of color?
It's what percentage?
How many of them actually believe this?
Well, we have a new, pretty terrifying Yougov poll that shows that the majority
of republican voters do, in fact, think this is true.
Respondents to the poll were asked, do you agree or disagree with the following?
White people in this country are being replaced by non white people.
Among all respondents, a significant 39% either strongly or
somewhat agreed while a slim 41%, plurality disagreed.
The numbers are even worse when it comes to Republicans.
So among Republicans, 58 agreed either strongly or
somewhat that whites are being replaced while 61% of Trump voters said the same.
Now look, the Yougov poll is terrifying, but I do have one note of caution, right?
Because for me, the real question is, do they believe that this is a conspiracy,
like something's being intentionally done to make this happen?
Or are they just looking at what's happening to demographics in
the country and they're noticing that?
Yeah, the white population is getting smaller because there's interracial
marriage, there are immigrants of course.
There's a difference between acknowledging demographic shifts versus thinking
there's some crazy manipulated like strategy to replace white people, right?
Because white replacement theory is that, that Jewish people are conspiring and
like carrying out this strategy to replace white people, which is insane, obviously.
>> Okay, so previous polls had said something that was still very troubling,
but a tiny bit more benign, it's a native born Americans, okay?
This one actually says white people, okay?
White people are going to be replaced nonetheless 58% of Republicans said, yeah,
yeah, white people are gonna be replaced.
So now, let's break down how over the top racist this is, and if the word
racist offends you, well, the fact that you are racist offends us way more, okay?
So we're even, and let's move on and now I'll prove to you that anyone who answered
yes to this is a definitive racist.
White people are gonna replace by who non white people, why is that a problem?
Because you're a racist?
No, no, but it's literal like, so if you told me, hey,
you're going to be replaced first, we'll get back to in a second replace for what?
Where am I going, right?
But if you told me you're going to be replaced, let's say that the next host
here is going to be a Latino or someone black, why would I care?
Why is that a bad thing?
Because they think white people should be in charge, and
the idea of having white people replaced, they find to be abhorrent other blacks,
Latinos, Asians, non white people in charge?
They find that idea disgusting, that's because they're overtly racist.
>> Okay, but do you get the point that I'm trying to make.
Like, look, I remember doing a show for fusion back in 2016, where we were
specifically talking about how the demographic and we were celebrating it.
We didn't think it was a bad thing obviously that the Trump
support was like the last gasp of like white America, right?
I remember talking about that, so
like if we were to answer this poll the way that it's being phrased, right?
Like it's demonstrably true, but it's not asking you if it's a good thing or
a bad thing.
Do you get what I'm saying?
>> No, no, no, white people are not being replaced, that is not true,
that's not even close to true, our demographics shifting, yes.
Why it's not true when you say replace and white people is the key part, okay?
So replaced how, like are they forcing you to move to Guadalajara?
Like do you have to go to some other country?
You're not being replaced at all, more people are coming in,
some of them by the way are white.
Like Ukrainians and
other immigrants that are coming from all different parts of the world.
And some people are Latinos, some people are Asian, they're all different races.
But if we're adding other races, how are we replacing you?
Now, you're just saying, I don't like the other races, I don't want them to
come in addition to the people that are already here because they're not white.
If they were white, that's totally fine, because it says white people, right?
There's no subtlety at all in this, okay?
So what do they mean by replace?
What they mean is replace our power,
they don't mean replace us physically, nobody's going to a different country.
And the idea that white people wouldn't be in charge in a country that they view to
be like, they view to be racist, like they think that's great that we're racist.
We white people should never be replaced in power by black people are Latinos.
So they're just literally telling you, I don't want this to be a democracy,
I don't want everybody to be equal.
I don't want white people to ever lose power and
be replaced in the power dynamic.
>> God, we're so doomed like, I mean every year,
this country gets significantly worse with extremists and racists.
Like having more and more extremist and racist thoughts that
are being fueled also by the right-wing media ecosystem,
honestly, what do we have on the left, right?
We have some independent media, sure, but
can it really compete with corporate media and right-wing media at this point?
I mean, the most watched cable news network is Fox News with Tucker Carlson
being the most watched host on that platform.
And to your point Cenk, yes,
I mean I'm not trying to erase the racist component here, right?
I'm just talking about the methodology here and
the way that they're phrasing the question.
But to buttress your point because you are right,
if you take a look at other questions in this very poll,
it's just demonstrably true that there's racism at the front and center.
So the poll also asked, according to the US census Bureau, more people
of different races are marrying each other these days than in the past.
In terms of its impact on the country, do you think this is a very good thing?
A somewhat good thing neither a good or bad thing, nor a bad thing,
a somewhat bad thing, a very bad thing or not sure.
Now among Republicans, the split was even at 24% good thing to 23% bad thing.
So 23% of Republicans think interracial marriage is a bad thing like they're
comfortable enough to say that.
>> To a pollster.
>> To a pollster, yeah.
>> Someone on the telephone or whatever and they say, yeah, white people and
black people getting married, that's terrible, that's a bad thing.
I mean, I can understand staying neutral, I don't even care if they marry a white
person or a black person, I don't care, right?
That's totally fine, saying no, no, two different races married,
bad thing, you just said you're racist, there's no subtlety at all.
So look guys, changing demographics are real, if the demographics were naturally
shifting towards the country being more white, would I be upset?
Of course not.
What the hell would I be upset?
Who cares if it's white people, or black people, or Latino people?
And if Democrats are upset and
they're like, the changing demographics are bad for us, I would tell them,
hey, Schmucks, why don't you go get the votes of white people?
What's wrong with you, right?
Well, white people will never vote for us, why, then why don't you help them?
Why not white people specifically?
Why don't you help all Americans so they all vote for you?
But republicans by the way, have never even considered that.
Why don't we go get the votes of Latinos and black people?
No, we don't, they're so racist they don't even want your vote.
>> You know why?
Because look, think about everything that Republicans have campaigned on for
decades since the 1970s, it's all been culture war stuff.
So they're not gonna campaign on economic populism,
their corporate donors won't let them do that.
A lot of them are millionaires themselves, they don't wanna do that,
they don't wanna pay higher taxes, they wanna raise their own taxes.
So hating on people and being peddling racist, politics is their bread and
butter, that is what they rely on for their campaigning, that's it,
they're gonna keep doing it.
This is all they've got, and on the other side, what do you
get from Democrats who have now been captured by the same corporate interests,
finger wagging language policing.
Today AOC talking about, my colleagues won't use Latin X,
even though Latinos don't wanna be called Latin X, what are you doing AOC?
What are you doing?
What is this?