Conspiracy theories that have been core to white supremacist beliefs for decades have no place on mainstream networks that beam into millions of Americans’ living rooms, milleridriss writes.
had already popularized the idea of “white genocide,” arguing that white populations were dying out demographically because of immigration, abortion and violence against whites. This was in turn linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories, suggesting that an organized international group of Jewish elites was deliberately funding or otherwise supporting migration in an intentional effort to create multicultural societies.
While Lane was busy peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories about white genocide in the United States, a parallel white supremacist theory of demographic replacement emerged in Europe. Coined by the British author Bat Ye’or and published in 2005 in a book of the same name, the concept of “” suggests that Muslims were deliberately working to replace white Europeans through immigration and high birth rates in order to broaden the territory of the caliphate.
Over the past decade, the “great replacement” concept has unified those American and European conspiracy theories into one overarching, dystopian conspiracy theory warning white Americans and Europeans of a frightening future of decline, degradation and chaos.
When Carlson defended the notion of demographic replacement on air last year, the Anti-Defamation League called for him to be fired. This is the concept that Carlson is taking up when he warns of a “great replacement” — as he did last April in arguing that Democrats were intentionally “
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