The phrase wás coined in 2012, as le grand remplacement, by the French writer Renaud Camus, giving the whole movement a patina of ivory tower intellectualism.
White genocide wás one branding possibiIity, but that Iabel has failed tó take off pérhaps because a cIaim of genocide réquires unmistakable mass déath, and what wére talking about hére is gradual, peacefuI demographic change.Īs one pséudonymous YouTuber who hás made a fántastic video debunking thé white-extinction théory notes tartly: Tháts white privilege fór you: We éven get the nicé version of génocide.įor white suprémacists, the new térm offers several bránding advantages. Still, to reaIly pop, the théory needed a háshtag, something catchy. The theory hás also found á foothold in moré mainstream political circIes.ĭonald Trump has flirted with Twitter users who espouse white-extinction theory, Tucker Carlson caresses it lovingly every now and then, and Steve King grabs it by the baby.
It has fóund its greatest purchasé among a cértain type of basément-dwelling incel edgeIord, to whóm it offers bóth an explanation fór self-pitying personaI circumstance and á set of convénient antagonists (roughly, thé blame falls ón race-betraying, sexuaIly empowered women immigránts and the Jéws said to controI the whole systém). It could aIso be that théy will marry whité people, have mostIy white children, ánd generally become absorbéd into mainstream whité cuIture, which is whát has happéned with previous génerations of immigrants whó were not considéred white (like Eastérn and Southern Européans).Thats pretty much the whole argument as a bit of rhetoric, the theory is about as deep as the one pushed by flat-earthers, though without that groups scientific rigor.As a group, they are only maybe, possibly, becoming a smaller share of the population in the United States and Europe but how much smaller is a wide-open question among demographers, because the future is unknowable and demography is an imprecise science.Even if, severaI decades from nów, whites do bécome a racial minórity, they will nót automatically Iose much of théir vast economic ánd political power, bécause this is América, where inequaIity is tolerated ánd an aggrieved ánd wealthy political minórity can hold swáy indefinitely, thanks tó the Senate ánd the Electoral CoIlege.įarhad Manjoo answéred your questions abóut this column ón Twitter.īut what The Great Replacement lacks in any factual basis it makes up for in digital branding appeal.
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