The El Paso Screed, and the Racist Doctrine Behind It
But we have to understand that these people do not exist in a vacuum. Many of these views are broadcast on mainstream news outlets, which compounds the problem.
How Fox News pushed the white supremacist "great replacement" theory
Constantly pushing the idea of "changing demographics" is meant to scare white people and make them feel as though they are being "replaced." And in true Southern strategy fashion, they will never explicitly say something racist, but they will push ideas that are meant to inflame racial animosity.
From Pittsburgh to Christchurch, and now El Paso, white men accused of carrying out deadly mass shootings have cited the same paranoid fear: the extinction of the white race.
The threat of the "great replacement," or the idea that white people will be replaced by people of color, was cited directly in the four-page screed written by the man arrested in the killing of 22 people in El Paso over the weekend.
The phrase was coined in 2012 by the French author Renaud Camus, whose writing on white genocide echoes at least a century of white supremacist views. But some experts now fear the doctrine of replacement is being embraced more readily by lone wolf white terrorists and even some politicians, producing a particularly dangerous climate.
But we have to understand that these people do not exist in a vacuum. Many of these views are broadcast on mainstream news outlets, which compounds the problem.
How Fox News pushed the white supremacist "great replacement" theory
Constantly pushing the idea of "changing demographics" is meant to scare white people and make them feel as though they are being "replaced." And in true Southern strategy fashion, they will never explicitly say something racist, but they will push ideas that are meant to inflame racial animosity.