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The Media's Big Lie About the 'Great Replacement Theory' and Conservatism
Townhall.com ^ | May 18, 2022 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/18/2022 6:05:10 AM PDT by Kaslin

This week, a racist mass shooter massacred 10 people and wounded three others at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket. The shooter was a white supremacist; his hate-filled 180-page screed about why he had committed the shooting was replete with neo-Nazi sentiments. According to the shooter, he had to slaughter innocent black Americans in order to prevent the white population of the United States from being crowded out. "We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history," wrote the perverse murderer. "This is ethnic replacement. This is cultural replacement. This is racial replacement. This is WHITE GENOCIDE."

The shooter's theory, generally called the "great replacement theory," suggests that a shadowy cabal of elites, mainly Jewish, have deliberately undermined the racial purity of European countries by facilitating mass immigration and race-mixing. The shooter deliberately quoted the neo-Nazi slogan -- the so-called 14 Words -- "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." He called himself a white supremacist, a neo-Nazi and an antisemite. Among the sources for this morally sick belief system, the shooter cited various internet sources, particularly other mass shooters who released similar manifestoes. He did not mention Fox News; he did not mention any mainstream conservative, instead stating, "conservatism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it."

None of this mattered to the Left-wing press, which immediately determined that the entire conservative movement was somehow guilty for the mass shooting. The New York Times headlined, "Republicans Play on Fears of 'Great Replacement' in Bid for Base Voters." The Washington Post accused Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., of "echo(ing) racist theory allegedly espoused by Buffalo suspect." The New Republic headlined, "The Great Replacement Theory Is Just Republican Orthodoxy Now."

What evidence did the media provide to the effect that conservatives, broadly writ, had espoused the Great Replacement Theory? They cited the belief among conservatives that the Left is generally friendly toward loose immigration in order to move the country in a progressive manner. Philip Bump of The Washington Post stated that nearly half of Republicans believed in the great replacement theory, citing a Pew poll that found that almost half of Republicans (and more than one in five Democrats) believed that "there is a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with their political views."

This, of course, is not the great replacement theory, which centers on racial purity rather than the idea that changing demographics have an effect on political orientation. The latter premise has been taken for granted by the Left for decades (even though it is largely faulty, as changing Hispanic voting patterns demonstrate). In fact, the Left has often argued in favor of demographic change turning the country bluer: in 2003, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira wrote a book titled "The Emerging Democratic Majority," in which they argued that Democrats were building a new electoral coalition "in which white America is supplanted by multiracial, multiethnic America"; in 2012, Greg Sargent of The Washington Post observed, "The story of this election will be all about demographics... Rather than reverting to the older, whiter, more male version (of America's electorate) Republicans had hoped for, it continues to be defined by what Ron Brownstein has called the 'coalition of the ascendant' -- minorities, young voters, and college educated whites, particularly women"; in 2013, the Center for American Progress stated, "Supporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future."

The goal here is obvious: conflate Republican positions with white supremacy in order to drive votes away from them. It's poisonous politics, and it happens to be a lie. But truth is of little or no priority when it comes to Left-wing politics, which are rooted always and forever in the idea that those who oppose their favored policies must be destroyed with any tool at hand.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fakenews; gaslighting; leftwingbias; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; ronklain; shapiro

1 posted on 05/18/2022 6:05:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Well, we know what abortion on demand has done to the black population.


2 posted on 05/18/2022 6:09:09 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Kaslin

Tucker Carlson took them apart last night. He showed article after article, statement after statement by Leftists to the tune of “we’ll swamp conservative White voters with a whole bunch of hispanic immigrants who will vote for us and thus we will have power forevermore.”

One article in the NY Times from a couple years ago was titled “we can replace them” and said the same.

Leftists have been openly saying this for well over a decade.


3 posted on 05/18/2022 6:11:02 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Kaslin

“The goal here is obvious: conflate Republican positions with white supremacy in order to drive votes away from them”

That is exactly what Biden is doing.

“. But truth is of little or no priority when it comes to Left-wing politics, which are rooted always and forever in the idea that those who oppose their favored policies must be destroyed with any tool at hand.”

Exactly


4 posted on 05/18/2022 6:12:30 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: FLT-bird

Why do you think there has been a hastening to fly 180,000 invaders in the month of April to crucial states? This is only the beginning they are forecasting over 250,000 in the month of June ...Don’t kid yourself this is about keeping the power-hungry greedy bastards rats in power. Those invaders definitely will be registered to vote in 22 and 24. They are coming in the millions to replace the voters that have moved away from the rats. AND we are helpless to stop it.


5 posted on 05/18/2022 6:17:50 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Kaslin

The media shows us what they want. All black commercials, or interracial families. Shapiro may not agree completely (or apparently supports it), but the left wants to ethnically cleanse white people.


6 posted on 05/18/2022 6:18:17 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin

Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino have detailed very well how the replacement theory stuff originated with the left, with their own words on video and in print. Hell, they’ve even crowed about it.

It won’t matter though.


7 posted on 05/18/2022 6:18:53 AM PDT by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Here is the Tucker Carlson video re RPLACEMENT THOERY from the mouths of the dems themselves. This is NOT a conspiracy it is what the dems have called for for decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EzgfBMVwFQ


8 posted on 05/18/2022 6:20:04 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Kaslin

The “browning” of America is nothing new. It’s not some ethnic nightmare. Conservatism has more to do with a growing middle class. They want good schools and safe neighborhoods. Those things are not dependent on skin color.

The issue is that as soon as you start speaking of issues in a matter of fact, truthful way, people on both sides lose their minds. Until that stops it’s not worth discussing.


9 posted on 05/18/2022 6:20:55 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Kaslin

It all depends on if you capitalize it. I don’t think it has to do with the Jews.


10 posted on 05/18/2022 6:27:41 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Kaslin

“The latter premise has been taken for granted by the Left for decades (even though it is largely faulty, as changing Hispanic voting patterns demonstrate).”

This is complete BS, being espoused lately by people like Shapiro. He and others are working OT to make us believe that the tidal wave of 3rd World people really won’t matter because 30 or maybe even 40 or 50 percent of them will ‘EVENTUALLY” vote republican. But, in the meantime while we’re waiting for that the country will become a 3rd World dungheap. White people NOW are under physical threat in a growing number of places and he knows that.

I hope no one is stupid enough to listen to the liars who are trying to reassure us that it’s all OK. I’m old enough to remember Jacob Javitz telling us that changing our immigration laws “won’t change the demographics of the country” he was a liar and he knew it.


11 posted on 05/18/2022 6:29:26 AM PDT by euram
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
When the late night demagogic party shills start getting replaced by illegals and transgenders, I hope it's through attrition.

12 posted on 05/18/2022 7:00:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: FLT-bird

You’re a racist...for noticing that.


13 posted on 05/18/2022 7:05:30 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: RoseofTexas

The Republicans, in congress, could stop this, but they refuse.


14 posted on 05/18/2022 7:07:18 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Kaslin

When the democrat party, media, and academia has adopted “end whiteness” and post “all I want for Christmas is white genocide” what are we to think they mean about that? It’s just like Iran chanting “death to America.” Sometimes it is best to believe what your enemies are telling you.


15 posted on 05/18/2022 8:26:28 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Kaslin
...even though it is largely faulty, as changing Hispanic voting patterns demonstrate.

I think the perception by some people that Hispanics will eventually vote conservative is rooted in the belief that because a large number of them are Catholic that they'll see the light and turn against the hedonistic ways of democrats. I think that's a stretch however. Latin American countries are overwhelmingly Catholic yet have the highest unwed birth rates in the world. Colombia is 75% Catholic yet 84% of the births are out of wedlock. Clearly there's a large gulf between what the Church teaches and what Latin Americans actually practice. Expecting them to illegally enter the U.S. and suddenly start acting like faithful Christians is expecting an awful lot that in all likelihood won't happen.

16 posted on 05/18/2022 5:08:00 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: GaryCrow
Also add Cubans who fled Castro where the first generation overwhelmingly voted Republican which sort of helped neutralize the South Floridian retirees from NY/Northeast that vote democrat. The Cuban numbers that vote Repub are dwindling as the generations progress.
17 posted on 05/18/2022 5:13:50 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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