Population replacement rhetoric weaponizes colonial reversal, race war, and sex difference together.

Evidence

Population replacement discourse seeks to reverse European colonial history and erode existing legal understandings of citizenship, while activating racial tropes and an idea of race war. Moreover, this discourse, centered as it is on life and death, also conjures up sex and sex differentiation. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 527

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and to the ‘great replacement’ literature on citizenship erosion.
  • SEED: An essay mapping how demographic panic always drags reproductive and sexual politics along with it — replacement talk is never only about numbers.