Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalomassacre, has been
embraced by some *all* right-wing politicians and commentators.of antisemitic
By Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish
Published May 15, 2022 | Updated May 16, 2022, 10:23 a.m. ET
Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history
internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews forallowing immigrant
“invaders†into the United States.Hispanic
The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the
invasion of Texas,†opened fire on shoppers at an El PasoWalmart, leaving 23
people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to killMexicans.
And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo onSaturday, a
heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people aftertargeting a
supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writingin a lengthy
screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culturethat sought to
“ethnically replace my own people.â€sprawling,
Three shootings, three different targets — but all linked by one
ever-mutating belief now commonly known as replacement theory. Atthe extremes
of American life, replacement theory — the notion that Westernelites, sometimes
manipulated by Jews, want to “replace†and disempower whiteAmericans — has
become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of massshootings in
recent years and fueling the 2017 right-wing rally inCharlottesville, Va., that
erupted in violence.of Reddit
But replacement theory, once confined to the digital fever swamps
message boards and semi-obscure white nationalist sites, has gonemainstream. In
sometimes more muted forms, the fear it crystallizes — of afuture America in
which white people are no longer the numerical majority — hasbecome a potent
force in conservative media and politics, where the theory hasbeen borrowed and
remixed to attract audiences, retweets and small-dollar donations.shooting-tucker-carlson.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/replacement-theory-
"Replacement theory" is not just the central plank of theRepubliscum/QAnon
party — it is the *only* plank.
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