Posted on 07/20/2021 8:29:34 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
After a media report highlighting her use of language mirroring a racist conspiracy theory that was cited by white supremacist mass shooters, Flagstaff Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers doubled- and tripled-down on her assertion that immigrants are “replacing” white Americans and destroying “western civilization.”
Rogers on Saturday retweeted an article by far-right outlet Brietbart Texas about migrant apprehensions, along with the comment that “we are being replaced and invaded.” The language is the same used by those who promote the “Great Replacement Theory.”
That idea, popular among white supremacists, holds that white Americans are being replaced by immigrants. It has been seized upon by extremist groups such as the American Identity Movement and Generation Identity.
It has also inspired violence. Fears of immigrants undermining his vision of a white Christian Europe motivated Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous rampage in 2011 at a Norwegian youth summer camp.
In the U.S., the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018 was the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in United States history. Just before it took place, the killer took to right-wing social media site Gab to say he believed that immigrants were being brought in to replace and “kill our people.”
The next year in New Zealand, 51 people would be killed and 40 injured but not before the shooter would post a 74-page manifesto titled “The Great Replacement.”
Again in 2019, in El Paso, Texas, a shooter who would kill 23 in a Walmart would cite the manifesto in one of his own saying it was a response to the “hispanic invasion of Texas.”
Rogers’s use of “great replacement” ideology caught the attention of journalist Nick Martin, who covers far-right racist extremism in America. Martin wrote that Rogers “echoed white supremacist rhetoric” and was being condemned by a local Jewish organization.
On Tuesday, Rogers addressed Martin’s coverage and the criticism she was facing by saying that Americans are being replaced and that it was the work of “communists & our enemies.”
“I will not back down from this statement. Communists & our enemies are using mass immigration, education, big tech, big corporations & other strategies to accomplish this,” Rogers said in another tweet.
Rogers also echoed another white nationalist talking point by later tweeting out “MAKE WESTERN CIVILIZATION GREAT AGAIN.”
Some white supremacist and extremist groups have focused their messaging on a crusade to save “western civilization,” linking their identities to ancient Greece and Rome as an attempt to turn “western civilization” into code for “white culture.”
Famously, former Congressman Steve King, who was deemed the most openly affiliated Congressman with white nationalism by the Washington Post, defended his views by saying he was defending “western civilization.”
“Senator Rogers’ statements are completely in line with the kind of bigoted dehumanzing rhetoric being used by white nationalists,” Lindsay Schubiner, program director at Western States Center said in a statement to Arizona Mirror. “Elected officials have a responsibility to stand up against bigotry and violence, and Sen. Rogers’ colleagues have an obligation to denounce her rhetoric if they do not wish to be implicated by it.”
In 2019, Rogers did just that when it served her political needs. In July of that year, she was mounting a campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen in the 2020 election. When Allen was caught on an audio recording denigrating non-white immigrants who were having more children than white women — a key concept in “great replacement” ideology.
“I denounce Sylvia Allen’s very racist statement,” Rogers wrote on Twitter.
Schubiner said Rogers should recognize the violence that comments like hers have inspired.
“The ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory has inspired a wave of white nationalist violence both in the U.S. and abroad,” she said. “At a time when anti-immigrant bigotry and violence in America is on the rise, Senator Rogers’ comments are dangerous.”
And local Jewish groups are speaking out against Rogers’s comments.
“The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix is deeply concerned with Sen. Rogers’s use of extremist terms that have inspired some of the worst atrocities in recent history,” Paul Rockower, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix, told the Arizona Mirror. “Given the uptick of antisemitism and extremism in our state, and across the country, Rogers’ use of thinly-veiled hate speech is dangerous and has no place in the rhetoric of Arizona’s elected officials.”
Recently, a Tucson man was arrested for vandalizing a Tucson synagogue with a swastika and an antisemetic slur. Just three months ago, a group of neo-nazis marched in Phoenix.
“In the issue of migration, the additive ingredients needed are compassion and respect for human dignity,” Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of Community Engagement for Chicanos Por La Causa said to the Mirror. “What needs to be removed are xenophobic politics.”
Rogers did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
ITs getting hot in AZ. The newspapers are in Deep Sate panic mode. So now they attack on behalf of the Maricopa Co. DS
In new construction in my part of Florida is almost all done by Hispanics.
This article throws in “extremist” “white supremacist” “shooter at the synagogue” crap in just about every sentence. They are NOT giving you the news. They are instructing you to hate GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers.
Western civilization is worth saving.
Doesn’t have to be saved white people alone.
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It’s a Soros operation, Jim. There is zero reason to post this trash on FR.
Well said.
New construction in my part of Florida is almost all done by Hispanics.
Watch the Carol Burnett Show.
Take a look at her audiences.
smear
The Great Replacement Theory has a lot more validity than Communist Race Theory.
How is it a conspiracy theory if it’s literally what is happening ?
Enoch Powell was right.
Demographic replacement with poorly educated and unskilled foreign illegal immigrant s to fundamentally change the racial and socio economic of America has been the chosen instrument of destruction.
They were openly bragging about their goals in California and how they were going to transform California to with a “majority minority” illegal immigration strategy to demographically change California from it's highly educated , highly skilled largely white ( but also Asian, Indian and Hispanic) population to a welfare dependent mix of an uneducated, unskilled imported “people of color”
California reached it's peak in the mid 1998s and the start of the illegal flood has pretty much tracked the decline of California since the assault on the makers of California by the takers.
We are now seeing this strategy go nationwide. We are seeing the start of serious social and racial unrest by design and active incitement . BLM and Antifa are just the first salvos of the culture war they are trying to ignite.
Dick Durbin had a video where he validated this.
This is total bullshit.
It’s like a short person pointing out that people are getting taller each generation (which is a fact), and being accused of spreading a conspiracy theory - that tall people are replacing short people.
Noticing something that’s actually happening doesn’t make one paranoid, or make one a conspiracy theorist.
It is not racist, but true, to say that the left is using mass immigration and control of the educational system to destroy national unity and national pride to soften us up for world government. This has nothing to do with saying any racial groups are inferior, but to say that mass immigration is one way - among others - to destroy our collective memory as a nation.
It’s not a good thing
Most Mexicans and Latinos are DEVOUT CHRISTIANS
I TRUST THEM MORE THAN WHITE LIBERAL SCUM ANY DAY OF THE WEEK
PW Botha was right too.
When they say “conspiracy theory”, they mean Spoiler Alert.
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