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Replacement theory seems to just be the lightly sanitized version of the long-standing "white genocide" theory, which is a central pillar of white supremacist i

• QuercusMax 4y ago
  This is also why they're freaking about about "critical race theory". There has been genocide in the US - by white colonizers against Native Americans. They don't want to admit this because it would require too much self-reflection, but fundamentally they think that someone else wants to do it to them because they did it first.
  • t-3 4y ago
    > they think that someone else wants to do it to them because they did it first. No, it's because they're racists and xenophobes. Most of the "whites" in the US, and particularly the poor and uneducated class which comprises the majority of white supremacists, are relatively recent immigrants who have little connection to the genocides of the past.
• krapp 4y ago
  >The difference is that replacement theory doesn't go so far as to call for a "self-defence" genocide. It's comparable to the difference between an unarmed bomb and an armed bomb. It's a distinction without a difference in practice. As the article mentions, the Buffalo shooter was motivated by replacement theory, as was the Christchurch shooter and the El Paso shooter.