Replacement Theory Explained

Описание: The Great Replacement or Replacement Theory
The Great Replacement also known as the replacement Theory is a White Nationalist Far-Right Conspiracy Theory.
“The Great Replacement” theory has its roots in the early 20th century French nationalism and books by French nationalist and author Maurice Barres.
Later on the great replacement theory was popularized by Renaud Camus in his 2011 book Le Grand Remplacement.
It specifically associated the presence of Muslims in France with potential danger and destruction of French culture and civilization.
The theory states that with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites mostly jews, the white European populations are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-white people, especially from Muslim-majority countries through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans.
An extension of colonialist theory, it is predicated on the notion that white women are not having enough children and that falling birthrates will lead to white people around the world being replaced by nonwhite people. And like so many fundamentalist ideologies, the foundation of this one requires the subjugation of women.
The “great replacement” philosophy was quickly adopted and promoted by the white supremacist movement, as it fit into their conspiracy theory about the impending destruction of the white race, also know as “white genocide.”
Many Americans first became familiar with the term in 2017 when alt-right activists organized a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where activists chanted, "You will not replace us," and "Jews will not replace us."The rally turned deadly when a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove his truck into counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Camus denies his words have inspired violence. But extremism experts say the replacement idea has helped propel a string of deadly attacks by white supremacists on Jews, Muslims, Hispanics and Blacks in recent years.
• Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States.
• The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to kill Mexicans as they are replacing white in America
• And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man killed 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that sought to “ethnically replace my own people.”
• Three shootings, three different targets — but all linked by one sprawling, ever-mutating belief now commonly known as replacement theory.
• Multiple iterations of the “great replacement” theory have been and continue to be used by antiimmigrant groups, white supremacists, and others. Prominent iterations include: Rhetoric of invasion: The theory often uses martial and violent rhetoric of a migrant “invasion” that must be stopped before it “conquers” “white America.” Voter replacement: The theory also sometimes incorporates the inaccurate assumption that nonwhite immigrants will vote a certain way, and therefore pro-immigration policies are designed by elites to diminish the political influence of white Americans. Anti-Semitism: In still other iterations, the theory can be found embedded in a web of other xenophobic conspiracies, including antisemitic notions that Jewish elites are responsible for the “replacement” plot.
Camus denies his words have inspired violence. But extremism experts say the replacement idea has helped propel a string of deadly attacks by white supremacists on Jews, Muslims, Hispanics and Blacks in recent years.
• Republicans have become more explicit about embracing the Great Replacement theory helped by the amplification of Fox News, particularly prime-time host Tucker Carlson. Rather than implying it, as many on the right previously had, Carlson is explicit — even if he denies somehow that he's talking about the "racist fantasy"