In the 1990s, Republicans spread fear over people of color 'replacing' white people in California. It's tenet of white supremacy we must confront.
The suspect, an 18-year-old white man from Conklin, N.Y., is in custody. The gunman wore body armor and livestreamed the massacre.But it’s the white supremacist explanation for it this time around, uncovered in a manifesto that authorities say Gendron uploaded, that should be all too familiar to Californians.
, in that white supremacists blame Jews for non-white immigration. Hence, the chants of “Jews will not replace us” and “You will not replace us” by racists with tiki torches the night before the Unite the Right rally in Virginia in 2017. Alongside racist, anti-immigrant rantings, the manifesto laid out how he planned to kill as many Black people as possible, authorities said. That he would shoot the security guard near the entrance before firing upon Black shoppers. That he had studied the floorplan and knew each aisle. What he would eat for lunch.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to share these views, according to the poll. One reason is that irresponsible conservative pundits keep touting the “great replacement” theory as an explanation for everything from the loss of manufacturing jobs in the Midwest to a spike in deaths from overdoses among white people addicted to painkillers.
You don’t even have to go to Buffalo. Just head into the Sierra foothills of Placer and El Dorado counties, and you’ll hear longtime white residents fretting about “liberals” — aka people of color — from the San Francisco Bay Area moving in to “replace” them.
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