The theory behind the practice
Martin Pengelly in The Guardian last September:
After the Anti-Defamation League renewed its call for Tucker Carlson to be fired from Fox News for voicing the racist “great replacement” theory about immigration, the primetime host had a pithy response: “Fuck them.”
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Claiming the Biden administration was trying “to change the racial mix of the country”, Carlson said: “In political terms, this policy is called ‘the great replacement’, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries.”
That’s the one Nicholas Confessore cited on Fresh Air the other day. It’s definitely an attention-grabber. Goebbels-like.
The “great replacement theory” originated on the far right. Perpetrators of recent mass shootings have cited iterations of the theory in “manifestos” attempting to justify their actions.
The link is to the El Paso mass shooting aka local genocide.
Carlson raised the theory in April, claiming it was not racist but a matter of hardball politics. The ADL chief executive, Jonathan Greenblatt, called for Carlson to be fired.
That didn’t happen, as we know. It will go on not happening. Everything will just get worse.
Matt Gaetz says Carlson is correct.
America’s secret jihad : the hidden history of religious terrorism in the United States / Stuart Wexler
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2015]
Misleading title, the book follows the ‘Christian Identity’ thread through far-right terror since WWII. The same names keep turning up. It goes back to 19th century ‘lost tribes’ crackpots. Bible-drunk Christians who just had to believe that THEY were the real Israelites, and that real-life Jews were a tribe of imposters. Even the Birmingham church bombing was part of a string of antisemitic attacks. ‘They’ were going to use ‘mud people’ as a weapon against the True Christian Lost Tribes.