Imagine that you were in, say, Namibia, and you are watching a talk show on TV with a live audience, and at one point the host says to the audience that according to official estimates black people will become a minority in Namibia by the year 2040, and the audience, the vast majority of whom are black Namibians, erupts in cheers and applause. From the context it's clear that this is not some kind of sketch show, or parody, or anything like that, but that both the host and the audience are completely serious about it.
That would be highly bizarre, to say the least. Why are they cheering this?
Or suppose that you were in Japan, and in such a talk show the host says that Asian people will become a minority in the country by 2050 or so, and the audience, which consists mainly of Japanese people, likewise erupts in cheers and applause, clearly celebrating that announcement like it were the best news they have heard in quite a while. Again, from the context it's clear it's not some kind of parody or comedy sketch show, but that the host and the audience are being completely serious about it. They are genuinely cheering the idea that their own people will become a minority in the country, as if that were one of the greatest news they have ever heard.
It would be strange and bizarre to the extreme. Why would they do that? What could possibly cause them to do that?
Yet, this is exactly what happened some months ago in a talk show in the United States, with the host announcing to the audience (most of which consisted of white people) that white people will become a minority in the country by year whatever-it-was.
Why would they cheer and applaud that statement like it were the best thing they have ever heard?
And this isn't even a unique bizarre happenstance. Similar situations are happening time and again in different contexts.
It's incredible how so many people can be indoctrinated into such self-hatred and racism.
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