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.
In Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man killed 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers sought to “ethnically replace my own people.”
The
Times reports, "Three shootings, three different targets — but all linked by one sprawling, ever-mutating belief now commonly known as the replacement theory. Replacement theory is the notion that leftist elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” and disempower white Americans.
"No public figure has promoted replacement theory more loudly or relentlessly than the Fox host Tucker Carlson, who has made elite-led demographic change a central theme of his show since joining Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016. A
Times investigation published this month showed that in more than 400 episodes of his show, Mr. Carlson has amplified the notion that Democratic politicians and other assorted elites want to force demographic change through immigration.
In just the past year, Republican luminaries like Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and Georgia congressman, and Elise Stefanik, the center-right New York congresswoman turned Trump acolyte (and third-ranking House Republican), have echoed replacement theory. Appearing on Fox, Mr. Gingrich declared that leftists were attempting to “drown” out “classic Americans.”
ABC reports, "Assuming his role as consoler in chief, President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to visit a community in mourning and to call out the dangers of white supremacy.
"Alluding to the "great replacement theory" conspiracy, Biden called on Americans to "reject the lie" and condemned those "who spread the lie for power, for political gain and for profit."
"We need to say as clearly enforced as we can, that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in America. None! Failure for us is to say nothing," Biden said.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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