• Re: A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the

    From Colonel Edmund J. Burke@21:1/5 to Rudy Canoza on Tue May 17 11:50:58 2022
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    Rudy Canoza <notgenx33@gmail.com> wrote in


    Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo
    massacre, has been
    embraced by some *all* right-wing politicians and commentators.

    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
    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.

    And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on
    Saturday, a
    heavily armed white man is accused of killing 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. At
    the extremes
    of American life, replacement theory — the notion that Western
    elites, sometimes
    manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” and disempower white
    Americans — has
    become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of mass
    shootings in
    recent years and fueling the 2017 right-wing rally in
    Charlottesville, Va., that
    erupted in violence.

    But replacement theory, once confined to the digital fever swamps
    of Reddit
    message boards and semi-obscure white nationalist sites, has gone
    mainstream. In
    sometimes more muted forms, the fear it crystallizes — of a
    future America in
    which white people are no longer the numerical majority — has
    become a potent
    force in conservative media and politics, where the theory has
    been borrowed and
    remixed to attract audiences, retweets and small-dollar donations.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/replacement-theory-
    shooting-tucker-carlson.html

    "Replacement theory" is not just the central plank of the
    Republiscum/QAnon
    party — it is the *only* plank.

    What's your plank these days Mr. kneepad QA tester?

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