Mass shootings have become so common in our country, this type of terrorist attack was quickly indexed as just another in the endless stream of shootings that plague our country. The terrorist was motivated by the white supremacist "replacement theory" that is still being proudly championed by the likes of Tucker Carlson and a number of posters on this board. Tree of Life wasn't the only massacre motivated by this despicable white supremacist ideology, the El Paso Wal Mart and Christchurch terror attacks were both explicitly motivated by the same ideology. Thanks to Tucker and other right-wing leaders, the threat of future terrorist attacks of this type will only continue to rise.
This anxiety, that an influx of non-white, "very visible" immigrants will eventually overwhelm and displace white people in America, is a powerful driver for the far-right in America. And it often turns deadly. The man who gunned down 11 people at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue—which works with HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, to support and relocate refugees—wrote online that he believed they were working to "bring invaders in that kill our people." In Christchurch, New Zealand, the man who murdered more than 50 people at two mosques described immigration as "assault on the European people," and wrote in a manifesto that, "This is ethnic replacement. This is cultural replacement. This is racial replacement. This is WHITE GENOCIDE."
The "great replacement," also known as "white genocide," is summed up by its name: a secretive cabal of elites, often Jewish, is trying to deliberately destroy the white race through demographic change in importing immigrants and refugees. Obsession with racial purity obviously goes far back, but the modern iteration of "white genocide" comes almost directly from The Turner Diaries, a racist novel self-published in 1978 by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce, writing under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. The book is set in a dystopian America where white people have been disarmed and oppressed by non-whites. The book culminates in a white nationalist revolution led by a group called The Order, who go on to plan a global genocide against non-white people.
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At least three mass shootings have apparently been inspired by the "great replacement" idea: The Tree of Life synagogue killings in Pittsburgh in 2018, the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, and the El Paso Walmart massacre in August 2019.
After those atrocities, the theory appeared to receded from the national discourse — but not forever. Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson brought it back with a vengeance, saying on the air this April that the Democratic Party was "trying to replace the current electorate" with "new people, more obedient voters from the Third World." There have been calls ever since from progressive and antiracist groups for Carlson's firing — but his fans and followers loved it.
Over the past few months, several prominent Republicans have begun to deploy "great replacement" rhetoric, invoking vague fears about whites being supplanted by ethnic minorities, or even by naming the theory openly.
Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz, the embattled Florida Republican who has reportedly been under federal investigation for months, tweeted that Carlson was "CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America," even taking a moment to describe the Anti-Defamation League as "a racist organization." Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, made nearly the same claims in a Newsmax interview, saying that Democrats "want to replace the American electorate with a Third World electorate that will be on welfare."
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This anxiety, that an influx of non-white, "very visible" immigrants will eventually overwhelm and displace white people in America, is a powerful driver for the far-right in America. And it often turns deadly. The man who gunned down 11 people at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue—which works with HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, to support and relocate refugees—wrote online that he believed they were working to "bring invaders in that kill our people." In Christchurch, New Zealand, the man who murdered more than 50 people at two mosques described immigration as "assault on the European people," and wrote in a manifesto that, "This is ethnic replacement. This is cultural replacement. This is racial replacement. This is WHITE GENOCIDE."
The "great replacement," also known as "white genocide," is summed up by its name: a secretive cabal of elites, often Jewish, is trying to deliberately destroy the white race through demographic change in importing immigrants and refugees. Obsession with racial purity obviously goes far back, but the modern iteration of "white genocide" comes almost directly from The Turner Diaries, a racist novel self-published in 1978 by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce, writing under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. The book is set in a dystopian America where white people have been disarmed and oppressed by non-whites. The book culminates in a white nationalist revolution led by a group called The Order, who go on to plan a global genocide against non-white people.
How the "White Replacement" Conspiracy Theory Spread Around the Globe
From pockets in small town Minnesota to Christchurch, New Zealand, a racist conspiracy theory has taken hold—sometimes to deadly consequences.
At least three mass shootings have apparently been inspired by the "great replacement" idea: The Tree of Life synagogue killings in Pittsburgh in 2018, the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, and the El Paso Walmart massacre in August 2019.
After those atrocities, the theory appeared to receded from the national discourse — but not forever. Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson brought it back with a vengeance, saying on the air this April that the Democratic Party was "trying to replace the current electorate" with "new people, more obedient voters from the Third World." There have been calls ever since from progressive and antiracist groups for Carlson's firing — but his fans and followers loved it.
Over the past few months, several prominent Republicans have begun to deploy "great replacement" rhetoric, invoking vague fears about whites being supplanted by ethnic minorities, or even by naming the theory openly.
Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz, the embattled Florida Republican who has reportedly been under federal investigation for months, tweeted that Carlson was "CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America," even taking a moment to describe the Anti-Defamation League as "a racist organization." Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, made nearly the same claims in a Newsmax interview, saying that Democrats "want to replace the American electorate with a Third World electorate that will be on welfare."
How the "great replacement" theory went from Charlottesville to the GOP mainstream
The racist delusion that whites are being "replaced" has gone from the far-right fringe to the halls of Congress
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