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This sort of idea, which had been spouted by the right since about 2014, is the political equivalent of a bullied child going bright red, putting his head down and clenching his fists by side. "Oooh you just keep pushing me see what happens, the backlash is coming any day now!" You are being pushed because you can be pushed. (I suppose is this analogy somone like the Christchurch or Brevik is the school shooter ie someone who snaps and achieves fuck all).
White people as a group are so completely demoralised that a significant portion of them believe that any sort of defence of themselves, even verbally, is "problematic". This gets worse when you look at the elites where the attitude towards whites could be charitably described as disdainful.
This also ignores the demographic outlook. No only do white people refuse to have children, but when white (lets be honest) women have them they increasingly decide to have mixed ones. In my experience mixed raced people overwhelmingly identify with the non-white side of their identity even if they look completely white and often have very negative views of white people. I'm not exaggerating when I say that most of the people I've met with a genocidal view of whites were themselves half white.
When you combine these things, the outlook for whites looks just as bleak as it did for the Romans a few generations before the fall.
Europe in 200 years will probably be devoid of Europeans. Most likely the new populations will be illiterates living in mudhuts burning Shakespeare for warmth and maybe in a thousand years they will, like the Germans before them, aspire to the greatness of the civilisation they destroyed. But probably not.
In the interest of honesty this seems to be false. Not just in my experience, but also what data aggregation from dating sites indicate: https://miro.medium.com/max/990/0*iBEmVIhn0nhkqBQ5.png
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If trends continue, Europe will have a large contingent of people who are white Europeans who are a few shades darker than their ancestors. To state otherwise is to admit the inferiority of European culture to middle eastern islamism, and I've always found that wanting.
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