The GOP has co-opted "replacement theory"

[pecksniff]

It's no longer quite so fringe.

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.

By his own account, the Buffalo suspect, Payton S. Gendron, followed a lonelier path to radicalization, immersing himself in replacement theory and other kinds of racist and antisemitic content easily found on internet forums, and casting Black Americans, like Hispanic immigrants, as “replacers” of white Americans. Yet in recent months, versions of the same ideas, sanded down and shorn of explicitly anti-Black and antisemitic themes, have become commonplace in the Republican Party — spoken aloud at congressional hearings, echoed in Republican campaign advertisements and embraced by a growing array of right-wing candidates and media personalities.

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, and his producers sometimes scoured his show’s raw material from the same dark corners of the internet that the Buffalo suspect did.

“It’s not a pipeline. It’s an open sewer,” said Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor who was fired in 2020 after defending the network’s decision to call Arizona for then-candidate Joseph R. Biden, and who wrote a forthcoming book on how media outlets stoke anger to build audiences.

 

[Rightguide]

One linked to black racism and this last one linked to crazy town left-wing racism.

“I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.”

“conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

"When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old highschool and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist."

 

[ll74]

There is no such thing as "left wing racism" or "right wing racism"

Racism is not tied to ideology. It is simply a view of race incompatible with modern society that race is inherent to superiority or inferiority.

 

[Rightguide]

There is no such thing as "left wing racism" or "right wing racism"

Racism is not tied to ideology. It is simply a view of race incompatible with modern society that race is inherent to superiority or inferiority.

The left always projects its inherent racism onto the right. So, as usual you're full of crap.

 

[ll74]

The left always projects its inherent racism onto the right. So, as usual you're full of crap.

No, you're just completely delusional, as usual. Racists do support parties which give them deference, much of the time, but there's no requirement for a racist to align either way.

What I've found is that racists just gravitate to groups that believe their behavior is acceptable and accept their rationalizations.

 

[pecksniff]

The left always projects its inherent racism onto the right. So, as usual you're full of crap.

The left is politically irrelevant, and it's not the Democrats showing racism right now.

 

[Rightguide]

The left is politically irrelevant, and it's not the Democrats showing racism right now.

There are no conservatives in his self-admitted Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ authoritarian left category/ political spectrum. That would be you and 1174 Reasons To Hate America.

 

[pecksniff]

There are no conservatives in his self-admitted Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ authoritarian left category/ political spectrum. That would be you and 1174 Reasons To Hate America.

If you mean that shooter, he's a national socialist. Very different thing.

 

[oggbashan]

If you mean that shooter, he's a national socialist. Very different thing.

He claims to be one. But the rest of his rant is inconsistent and contradictory. Claiming he is 'left' or 'right' is just trying to abuse your opponents, neither of whom would support his actions.

 

[pecksniff]

The point here is that the GOP is getting a lot of money and votes through racist messaging and replacement-theory fearmongering. In coded dogwhistle form, mostly, but it still works. Sometimes it's not so coded -- Tucker Carlson has actually called the immigration reforms of 1965 (which abolished the national-origins-quota system, enacted in 1924 for the express purpose of preserving America's character as a white country) an attack on democracy.

 

[icanhelp1]

The point here is that the GOP is getting a lot of money and votes through racist messaging and replacement-theory fearmongering. In coded dogwhistle form, mostly, but it still works. Sometimes it's not so coded -- Tucker Carlson has actually called the immigration reforms of 1965 (which abolished the national-origins-quota system, enacted in 1924 for the express purpose of preserving America's character as a white country) an attack on democracy.

OOHHHH!! Coded dogwhistle form! Now I get it!!!

 

[pecksniff]

OOHHHH!! Coded dogwhistle form! Now I get it!!!

There really is such a thing, you know.

 

[icanhelp1]

There really is such a thing, you know.

For people who see racism behind every tree.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

One linked to black racism and this last one linked to crazy town left-wing racism.

“I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.”

“conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

"When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old highschool and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist."

Your need to defend a murderous Trumplitard has already been noted, vettebigot.

 

[pecksniff]

Now the head of the Border Patrol agents' union is spreading replacement theory.

 

[pecksniff]

Liz Cheney gets it.

Cheney, who served as the No. 3 Republican in the House before she was ousted by her party for criticizing former President Donald Trump, called out GOP leadership for boosting a conspiracy theory that inspired not only the Buffalo shooter but other mass shooters as well.

"The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism," Cheney wrote on Twitter. "History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them."

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The left is politically irrelevant, and it's not the Democrats showing racism right now.

A racist is a racist, they don't all fall under one political banner, they can be republican, look at wrongway, or ican't or BB,or democrat, look at JE, or libertarian, look at Spearchucker/champ/whatever the fuck alt he has now, or Littledicksee.

 

[pecksniff]

The point here is that the GOP is getting a lot of money and votes through racist messaging and replacement-theory fearmongering.

Bears repeating.

 

[jomar]

Fearmongering is their rally cry

 

[ll74]

There are no conservatives in his self-admitted Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ authoritarian left category/ political spectrum. That would be you and 1174 Reasons To Hate America.

I've never provided reasons to hate America, particularly because I don't have any.

 

[icanhelp1]

Liz Cheney gets it.

And of course you believe that extremely prejudiced Trump hating RINO LMFAO

 

[Chobham]

The kid is certifiably deranged. His 'manifesto' is a disjointed. stream of consciousness, screed filled with conflicting notions. Taking his buying into yet another, and equally deranged, conspiracy theory and applying it to upwards of 50% of the population puts the person trying to make that case into the same deranged compartment as the kid.

 

[icanhelp1]

Your need to defend a murderous Trumplitard has already been noted, vettebigot.

No, just put things in perspective, the individual's mind was all over the spectrum, he was just plain evil, why can't you just accept that. He needs to be prosecuted as a sick individual.

 

[Dribble]

The kid is certifiably deranged. His 'manifesto' is a disjointed. stream of consciousness, screed filled with conflicting notions. Taking his buying into yet another, and equally deranged, conspiracy theory and applying it to upwards of 50% of the population puts the person trying to make that case into the same deranged compartment as the kid.

Then why do Republicans fight so hard against the dissemination of facts?

 

[Chobham]

Then why do Republicans fight so hard against the dissemination of facts?

What "facts?"