I could be wrong about this, but where is the correct version of this chant?
"You will not replace us!"
Until I see the proof, I believe this is the correct version. I.e., the words were not "Jews will not replace us!" But rather, "You will not replace us!" "You" not "Jews" and someone is distorting what these protesters are really complaining about. Here's one video of protesters:
and the words here are "You will not replace us" -- "You" and not "Jews"
Copernicus (#21 May 17): Remember the Charlotte white supremacist rally, where they chanted "Jews will not replace us!" That didn't mean that Jews would become more numerous, just that they would somehow gain socially advantageous position and status . . .
etc.
I'm skeptical that the above is the correct words that the protesters were saying. I'm suspicious that a more normal protest (not antisemitic) is what's happening, and it's being distorted. The real protest is against employers who hire cheap labor, especially immigrants. Also against foreign imports and globalism.
I wasn't there, but I saw something on the news, showing the crowd of chanters, and what I heard was "You will not replace us."
How can it be confirmed what the real words were.
The phrase
"Jews will not replace us" really makes no sense. Even for an antisemite it makes no sense.
But the phrase "You will not replace us" refers to workers being replaced by cheap labor, especially being replaced by foreign labor and immigrant labor. This version of the chant expresses what millions of Americans are whining about, including both the Trumpsters and Bernie Sanders fanatics, and the
"You" being addressed is the dirty capitalist pig employers trying to increase their profits by reducing their labor cost, which is good for the economy, for the benefit of all consumers. They have been replacing less competitive workers for decades, even centuries -- replacing them not only by cheap labor but also by machines, and labor union fanatics and workers rights crusaders have condemned employers for doing this.
Except for this hate against employers doing the right thing, competing in the economy, there would be no "replacement theory" condemning anyone and fearing immigrants or minorities or others.
What seems to be happening is that there are many workers who are afraid of being replaced, because there are others who will do the same job at a lower wage level, and in their paranoia to keep the wage level up they go on a rampage against any scapegoat that is noticeable -- i.e., against mostly immigrants and foreign imports or foreign labor which competes with them. And liberals/progressives notice this flaw in their economic theories, that it encourages paranoid workers to scapegoat someone other than the employers. So progressives/liberals are distorting these protests into something purely racist rather than the more normal hate against employers.
The primary fear is that of the uncompetitive worker who perceives he has a
Right to his job, as his property, and that it is an injustice to him if he is
replaced by another worker who can do the same job at lower cost. Or in some cases, by a machine.
But my question is: Where is the clear evidence that these shouting chanting protesters were saying
"Jews will not replace us!" and that they were not saying the words
"You will not replace us!"
Though I could be wrong, since I did not interview these protesters, I suspect that the word was "You" and not "Jews". And further, if these protesters could be interviewed and asked what their complaint was, I suspect their complaint would be mainly about immigrants and foreign cheap labor replacing them because of the dirty employers who are unpatriotic and greedy and callous toward the working class.
I would like to know if I'm mistaken, but where is an accurate quote of the chanters, telling us for sure what the wording is?
And were these protesters interviewed and asked who they're afraid of, who is replacing them? and replacing them IN WHAT WAY? -- WHAT IS THE REPLACEMENT object or person being put in their place? Everyone is talking ABOUT these protesters, but what are the protesters themselves saying?
Who is interviewing the protesters and asking them specifically what they're afraid of? I suspect that their ideas are mostly about economics rather than about race or Jews, and that their strongest hate is against the employers who are replacing them in order to save on labor cost.
And finally, lets' tell the truth:
YOU SHOULD BE REPLACED by your employer if there is someone or something which can do your job at lower cost. That's the bottom-line replacement that is going on, and it's good to be replaced by whatever can do that function at lower cost. And American workers (or British or French etc.) should stop their whining and being pandered to by Bernie Sanders and other demagogues and accept the fact that their value is lower if they can easily be replaced. And that's mainly what these protesters were chanting about and what they have been misled about, by demagogues like Trump and other China-bashing politicians and nativists who tell them their job should be protected from those damn foreigners and immigrants who are inferior to them but are being hired by the dirty capitalist corporations who are putting "PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE."
Someone needs to interview those protesters themselves, so we can hear it from their lips, instead of always getting only the interpretation of others who are painting a different picture they want us to see. Where is a reporter who took 1 or 2 protesters aside and asked them these questions?