Renaud Camus said he could no longer stand alongside a fellow European elections candidate who prayed in front of a swastika in what she said was a joke after a night out.
Renaud Camus, the French philosopher who popularized the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, disavowed his candidacy from the European elections after a fellow candidate on his list was pictured praying in front of a swastika.
The New Zealand shooter, who murdered 51 people in attacks on two mosques, referenced Camus’ great replacement theory —that non-white immigrants, particularly Muslims, are replacing whites in majority-white countries—in his manifesto. “I have just discovered that there is a person on the list who has relatively recent photographs and a video showing her tracing in the sand, on a beach, a swastika, then kneeling before it in an attitude of prayer,” Camus wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-racism campaign group, described Camus as the “the progenitor of the great replacement doctrine—the racist idea that white Europeans are being replaced by immigrants.” Camus then claimed the “great replacement” is the “nephew” of Nazism: “They share the same genealogy of horror. We can not be associated with that.”
"And it does make the matter worse because it is very strong, it’s a very strong culture and civilization with its own language and its own religion.
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