The alleged Buffalo shooter was said to have been inspired by the racist conspiracy, which has been embraced by rightwing politicians in the US and Europe – as well as Fox News
, in 2019. Yet each of these shooters – all white men – targeted a different group of people. The Buffalo shooter killed only Black Americans. The Christchurch shooter terrorised Muslims leaving Friday prayers. In El Paso, it was Latinos. In Utøya, it was young, mostly white Norwegians at a leftwing summer camp.
Ironically, of course, it is white Europeans who have done much of the replacing throughout history. Counterarguments to the great replacement theory would point out that, if anyone has grounds for complaint, it is the Indigenous people of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Africa and many other parts of the world, who have been “replaced” by colonial settlers. Native Americans comprise less than 3% of the US population.
Grant’s book was highly influential. It was endorsed by the US presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge and referenced in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . Grant’s research informed the Immigration Act of 1924, which set quotas for US immigrants on the basis of national origin, heavily favouring northern and western Europeans and barring almost all Asians and Africans.
These European currents have been imported into far-right US politics by well-funded groups such as the late John Tanton’s Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center For Immigration Studies, as well as his publisher Social Contact, which has put out white-nationalist texts including a translation of The Camp of the Saints. “These groups have used this money over the last 30 years to stealthily reintroduce this replacement idea into the public discourse,” says Jones.
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