Meaning of white replacement theory | Babel Free

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A conspiracy theory based on white supremacist ideology that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people through the immigration of visible minorities and demographics.

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“White supremacy movement believes in a White replacement theory. As stated by the ADL, “White supremacists today further believe that the White race is in danger of extinction due to a rising ‘flood’ of non-whites, who are controlled and manipulated by Jews, and that imminent action is need[ed] to ‘save’ the White race.”

““As our native birthrate falls, immigration will account for an increasing proportion of our growth,” Tanton warned. This framing touched on issues of cultural assimilation and evokes the specter of “white replacement theory,” the eugenicist fear about the “passing” of the “great race,” as Madison Grant put it in his influential 1916 book.”

“[…] The same anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant White replacement theory that motivated a domestic terrorist to commit a mass murder was also endorsed and shared by the Vice President of the United States, an elected member of Congress, and several guests of the most popular television network in the country.”

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