Thomas promotes replacement theory

Thanks to The Gazette for running Cal Thomas' column promoting the Great Replacement Theory. Thomas has revealed himself and the conservative ideology he espouses for what they are: white supremacy.

Remember the fascists marching in Charlottesville in 2017 chanting "Jews will not replace us?" That is the idea that Thomas now propagates, that people of color immigrating to this country will "replace" European-descended people and displace them.

Many of the men who wrote the Constitution owned Black slaves and wrote slavery into the Constitution. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, entered the Civil War trying to accommodate slavery where it existed. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free Blacks enslaved in states loyal to the Union.

Conservatives looked away when Jim Crow ruled North and South after the war. They ignored lynch law. Many who supported women's suffrage did so by presenting European-descended women as a counterweight to Black men voting, even though most former Confederate states made it impossible for Blacks to vote.

I hope to live to see the descendants of European immigrants become a minority. That will make this a better country. Thomas and his brand of conservatism are relics of a sordid past and a horrific future promoted by squalid people like Nick Fuentes or Donald Trump.

Readers who call themselves "conservative" better answer the question: "Do I really want to conserve a history of slave-holding, secession, lynching and segregation? Is that who I am?"

Jeff Klinzman

Coralville