Posted on May 18, 2022
How the 'Replacement' theory went mainstream on the political right
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Following the shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., focus has been trained on the "Replacement" theory, also known as "White Replacement" theory.
That's because a white man, who killed 10 Black people and injured three others, posted a 180-page document online that promulgated racist conspiracy theories often referred to as the "Great Replacement."
And he allegedly used the conspiratorial idea that minorities were and would be replacing whites as a reason to justify what he did. The FBI is investigating it as a hate crime.
"I want to be clear, for my part, from everything we know, this was a targeted attack, a hate crime, and an act of racially motivated violent extremism," FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday.
That's because a white man, who killed 10 Black people and injured three others, posted a 180-page document online that promulgated racist conspiracy theories often referred to as the "Great Replacement."
And he allegedly used the conspiratorial idea that minorities were and would be replacing whites as a reason to justify what he did. The FBI is investigating it as a hate crime.
"I want to be clear, for my part, from everything we know, this was a targeted attack, a hate crime, and an act of racially motivated violent extremism," FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday.
How the 'Replacement' theory went mainstream on the political right
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Actually various forms of aggression and violence in the US against persons whose skin color in is white date back in the US more than 4 centuries.
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The far-right has a very long and ugly history of violence in this country. Whereas the far-left at their worst riots and destroys property, the far-right actually has a body count.
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Replacement theory is only a thing if a person believes that race is a factor in things to be worried about. For all the decrying on the right that they don't see race and the left complaining about structural racism is actually racism, the right keeps coming up with stuff like this that indeed does show that race is very much a topic on their mind. That is despite protestations to the contrary.
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