A racist ideology seeping from the internet's fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York.
Ideas from the"great replacement theory" filled a racist screed supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old accused of targeting Black people in Saturday's rampage. Authorities were still working to confirm its authenticity.WHAT IS THE 'GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY'?Simply put, the conspiracy theory says there's a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
A more mainstream view in the U.S. baselessly suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration from Latin America so more like-minded potential voters replace"traditional" Americans, says Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.WHAT ARE THIS CONSPIRACY THEORY'S ORIGINS?How long has racism existed? Broadly speaking, the roots of this"theory" are that deep. In the U.S.
Renaud Camus, a French writer, published a 2011 book claiming that Europe was being invaded by Black and brown immigrants from Africa. He called the book"Le Grand Remplacement," and a conspiracy's name was born.
A written declaration by the Christchurch shooter was widely spread online. If the message attributed to the Buffalo shooter proves authentic, it's designed to also spread his philosophy and methods to a large audience.IS THE THEORY MAKING WIDER INROADS?While more virulent forms of racism are widely abhorred, experts are concerned about extreme views nonetheless becoming mainstream.
"I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement,' if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World," he said on his show last year."But they become hysterical because that's what's happening, actually, let's just say it. That's true.
The attention paid by many Republican politicians to what they see as a leaky southern border along the United States has been interpreted, at least by some, as a nod to the concern of white people who worry about being"replaced."
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