LANSING — House Minority Leader Matt Hall said Wednesday that state Rep. Josh Schriver should not have shared a post on social media touting "replacement theory" — a conspiracy theory espoused by racist groups that asserts there is a coordinated and clandestine effort to replace white populations in majority-white countries.
Hall also expressed no concerns with House Speaker Joe Tate's decision to strip Schriver, R-Oxford, of his staff and committee assignments over the post Schriver shared in February.
"We should not use these terms," Hall, R-Richland Township, said during a roundtable discussion with reporters before the Legislature adjourns for spring break.
Hall did not use the word "racist" in describing the "great replacement" post that Schriver shared on the social media platform X, and his comments fell short of the condemnation Democrats have requested. But Hall said lawmakers and other public servants "have to understand how other people feel about the words you use."
Hall had not previously commented publicly on the controversy, though he said he gave on-the-record comments to a reporter in early March that did not result in a story. On Feb. 21, House Democrats announced an advertising and petition campaign attacking Hall over his silence on the issue.
On Wednesday, Hall said he's discussed the issue with both Schriver and Tate and has encouraged Schriver to communicate in a more effective, inclusive and sensitive way, though Hall stopped short of saying he had encouraged Schriver to apologize.
Hall said he'd never heard of "replacement theory" before Schriver brought it to his attention.
Tate, D-Detroit, who is Michigan's first Black house speaker, told him that the term has been associated with lone wolf shooters and other violence, Hall said.
"If you understand where he's coming from on that, then you understand we should not use these terms," Hall said. "If these lone wolf shooters are using these terms, then it hurts people's feelings and it's distracting from what we're trying to do if you talk about it that way. So we have to be responsible for the words we use and we have to do a better job as public servants of communicating that in ways that are sensitive to how people feel in their experience and are also effective in what we are trying to do."
Hall said he believes Schriver was trying to address the issue of illegal immigration. That's a real issue that impacts crime and housing and is unfair to legal immigrants, Hall said.
"I agree with him that we need to solve the problem," Hall said of Schriver and illegal immigration. "What I shared with him is there is a way to communicate that in a way that is inclusive and in a way that resonates with people across our state."
Hall added: "These theories are not reasons to solve that problem," and "I don't agree with the theories."
Schriver said in a Wednesday text message he knows many people are concerned about the way illegal immigration is discussed. "I hear them and I want there to be room enough for my very conservative constituents in the conversation," he said. Schriver did not immediately respond when asked whether that response was a "no" to what Hall was proposing.
Hall, asked if he was OK with Tate stripping Schriver of his staff and committee assignments, said it is within Tate's power to take what actions he deems appropriate.
"That's between them," he said.
Hall noted he and most of the caucus voted in favor of a recent resolution, prompted by the Schriver incident, that condemned racist and white supremacist language.
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We have to carefully study their propaganda, to understand their true intentions.
For example, in this piece, it mentions that The Great White Replacement "conspiracy theory" had been espoused by "lone wolf shooters" etc.
Well, we simply reverse-engineer their propaganda, and what do we find?
These "lone wolf shooters" were obviously fake news, so in retrospect it seems that the MOTIVE for these obviously fake news stories is to associate the "lone wolf shooter" with some "conspiracy theory" they want to tamp down.
So now, every time someone brings up The Great White Replacement, they will respond with, "that kind of rhetoric motivates lone wolf shooters, so therefore you can't talk about it because its excessively inflammatory... and racist... and it hurts peoples feelings.
your feelings...?? they don't give a flying fuck about.
they don't want you talking about how they succeeded in destroying the nuclear family,
and how they succeeded in collapsing our birth rate to below replacement, thru birth control, and 10's of millions of abortions,
they don't want you talking about the demographic trends showing white people being a minority in america, and europe.
they don't want you talking about how the name muhammed pbuh is the most popular baby name in UK
They don't want you talking about how places like Tyson Foods import legal (and illegal) immigrants, to undercut fair wages.
Then when Tyson is done exploiting these immigrants, they simply get rid of them into the local community, and hire a new batch.
Tyson hired "refugees" from both sides of the Bosnian war, and there was a knife fight in the cafeteria.
the tenure of a packinghouse worker was under 5 years (when i worked there, years ago). the packinghouse is in constant need of "fresh meat" (new employees) because of the nature of the work, you can't do it very long without developing serious problems with hands, wrists, shoulders, backs...
so when a worker is physically getting to the point where they will start to cost the company big money for medical bills etc, they simply "find a reason" to fire that employee.
and honestly, the company is doing these people a favor by firing them, because if the workers continued to work there, they would suffer permanent, irreversible damage to their hands, wrists, etc...
and given that these people are working for low wages, doing hard physical labor, ... for them to lose the ability to use their hands to do work, would be devastating.
http://news.google.com/search?q=great+white+replacement
https://greatawakening.win/search?params=replacement&community=GreatAwakening
also this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward–Piven_strategy