
What is white replacement theory? Police probe conspiracy’s role in Buffalo shooting
Global News
Ten people are dead after a shooter opened fire in a supermarket in a predominantly black Buffalo community. The attack is being investigated as racially motivated extremism.
A racist ideology seeping from the internet’s fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York.
Most of the victims were Black.
Ideas from the “great replacement theory” filled a racist screed supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old accused of targeting Black people in Saturday’s rampage.
Authorities were still working to confirm its authenticity.
Certainly, there was no mistaking the racist intent of the shooter.
Simply put, the conspiracy theory says there’s a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
Believers say this goal is being achieved both through the immigration of non-white people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than other populations.
The conspiracy theory’s more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement plan.













