What is the Great Replacement Conspiracy and why is it relevant to the United States ethnic cleansing of migrants?
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” - The 14 Words, white nationalist slogan (The Order)
The Great Replacement is a white nationalist conspiracy theory originating with French fascist Renaud Camus, which states that immigration and declining birthrates are an intentional act of demographic replacement of whites (“white genocide,” a related conspiracy) by the international Jewish conspiracy to subvert western civilization and capitalism, a modernization of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion/Judeo-Bolshevik/Cultural Marxism conspiracies. It is rooted in older fears of “white extinction” that began becoming popular in the 19th century. It is related to “the Demographic Question.”
The Great Replacement has been promoted repeatedly by Elon Musk on Twitter as owner and by fascist propagandist Tucker Carlson, including on his Fox News’ show (the highest rated cable program in U.S. History in 2020 with a peak of 4.4 million nightly viewers).
This Conspiracy Has a Bodycount: ‘The Great Replacement’ as Inspiration for Fascist Murders.
These acts were organized and praised on 4/8chan where the attacker’s racist manifestos would be shared shortly before or after their attacks:
2017 Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally killing of antifascist Heather Heyer with a car by a white supremacist, was preceded by torch-lit chants of “blood and soil” (Nazi Germany reference) and “Jews will not replace us” (Great Replacement reference) the night before, they also harassed a Black church and synagogue in the area - 1 dead;
2018 Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting was motivated by the conspiracy, with the shooter convinced the synagogue’s role in the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (20th century era organization that shifted focus from Jewish refugees to all refugees) was material evidence of the role of Jews in demographically replacing white people with migrants - 11 dead;
2019 Christchurch Mosque shootings targeting Muslims were motivated by the conspiracy, cited by name in the shooter’s manifesto - 51 dead;
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting targeting Latinos was motivated by the conspiracy, cited by name in the shooter’s manifesto - 23 dead;
2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting targeting the Black community was motivated by the conspiracy, cited by name in the shooter’s manifesto whose act was directly inspired by the Christchurch shootings - 10 dead.
Total deaths: 95 since 2017, 96 counting Heather Heyer.
How popular is this conspiracy? According to this 2022 poll by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a disturbing number of Americans across party lines agree with core fundamental aspects of the conspiracy.
But this is a conspiracy that is not merely referenced in white nationalist attacks on the public but has become an integral part of state recruitment propaganda for Department of Homeland Security and their ethnic cleansing efforts of migrants.
As you can see, DHS is directly appealing to the sensibilities and conspiratorial racism of open white nationalists in an explicit attempt to recruit them. Also notable is their "America after 100,000,000 deportations" post because there are only an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants. This was never about civil violations of immigration law, but about ethnically cleansing the nation to transform it into a demographically homogenous white ethnostate.
The Great Replacement conspiracy inspires mass murders, is believed by a significant portion of Americans, and is referenced in recruitment campaigns to hire more goons for the ethnic cleansing of migrants.
This is not a fringe belief. It is a fundamental organizing principle and recruitment strategy of both the vigilante white nationalist street movement and the bourgeois state in crisis. Those 96 people were just the beginning.
