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Rudy Canoza <[email protected]> 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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