How White 'replacement theory' evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide
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"Replacement theory" is the product of a strategy by wealthy White nationalists to enter the mainstream. It is based on ideas -- honed over decades in the racist publications and conferences they funded -- that stayed mostly on the margins until 2014, when through a strange twist of events it crashed into the internet's biggest meme factories.
Since then, it has been the stated motivation of mass murderers, and it is why White supremacists were chanting, "Jews will not replace us," at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. More recently, it has crept in modified form into American politics. And in the past week, it emerged as the clear inspiration for the 180-page online document attributed to the White 18-year-old accused in America's latest racist gun massacre.
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