The Great Replacement Theory and its Connection to the Buffalo Shooting
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June 14, 2022
On May 14, 2022, a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Ten Black people were shot dead. One black person and two white people were wounded. The shooter’s manifesto and attack on Black people had ties to the “great replacement” theory.
This conspiracy theory holds that nonwhite people are being brought into the United States and Western countries to replace white people.
A statement from the shooter’s manifesto said, “The truth is my personal life and experiences are of no value. I am simply a White man seeking to protect and serve my community, my people, my culture, and my race.”
University of Utah professor of law Amos Guiora said, “Whites feel threatened.”
U student Daniel Gil de Lamadrid said that it’s a silly and baseless idea on the surface level “but this has been a conspiracy theory for a while.” He added, “during the 2016 and 2020 federal elections, Trump supporters were claiming that the Democrats were filling buses with illegal immigrants to go to places and vote.”
Lamadrid said that looking back on the elections, he can see that those claims were rooted in the great replacement theory.
This is not the first time the great replacement theory has been brought to light by a mass shooting. The Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings that targeted Muslims also had ties to the conspiracy theory. Guiora said, “at some level, these guys are all related ideologically.”
Within the United States, Guiora pointed to one belief that this theory is centered around. “America is at risk of being taken,” he said. “I think that the guy in Buffalo not only believed that, but acted on it. I mean, there’s a reason why he went to that supermarket.”
Lamadrid said he believed that the shooter wrote his plans out in the manifesto to show people what needs to be done. “He targeted black people because he believes that they do not deserve to live here because this is a white nation, and any black person living here is, whether they realize it or not, replacing,” he said.
The conspiracy leaves people of color in fear, which is one of the goals of the theory. Lamadrid said the first thing he thinks of after racially motivated mass-shootings is how people of color are not safe anywhere, even in communities where it’s mostly comprised of Hispanics, Asians or Black people.
He added, “There are racist white people that will come in and it sends ripples throughout the whole entire country.”
Guiora and Lamadrid both think the media response and rhetoric are a larger part of how this theory spreads.
Guiora pointed to comments from readers of Fox News. “Every time a white guy does a shooting, the first thing that the talkbacks on Fox says are mental health issues,” he said. “When a Black guy does a shooting, that’s never an issue, right?”
He added that pointing to mental health is a way to excuse and rationalize.
“That rationalization never occurs when the perp[etrator] is not a white guy,” Guiora said.
Defining the great replacement theory and discussing its ramifications are crucial to dismantling it and similar ideologies according to both Guiora and Lamadrid.
Guiora believes that it is important to have these conversations, even while they may be unpleasant, there’s risk in not having them.
Lamadrid thinks people need to be more proactive in identifying underlying racist theories within society.
“It took us this long to realize that these silly, stupid, racist claims are actually serious,” he said. “I would encourage people to educate themselves on the great replacement, even if it’s triggering to read because this is our reality.”
John Hedberg • Jun 28, 2022 at 6:34 am
“New York judge strikes down NYC law granting voting rights to noncitizens”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/noncitizen-voting-new-york/index.html
Interesting how Leftist Democrats are painting Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, and even classical Liberal Democrats as “racist” for believing in the “Great Replacement Theory” they’ve been bragging about openly for years, even while these Marxists are in the middle of trying to register tens of thousands of non-citizens to vote for them in local elections (presumably because citizens know better)?
Sure, everyone else is supposedly racist for believing what the Democrats are actually doing in front of our eyes, but it’s the Leftist Democrats who wrongly believe non-citizens will vote for them by color, because as Joe Biden says, “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black”. It’s these Democrats who categorize and stereotype everyone by race, and even presume to decide who is and isn’t “black” based who agrees with their fake hatreds, which is real racist discrimination. Leftists are racists who try to paint millions of innocent people with their own crimes, while openly trying to steal elections using non-citizens whom they racist-ly assume will vote only for them.
Meanwhile, in Texas, 4 House districts with Hispanic Republican candidates are about to turn red, because ethnic folks of all persuasions (like me) clearly see through Leftist Democrats’ racist lies, through their attempts to defame anyone who disagrees with their false hate-narratives, even other Democrats and “people of color”, who see through their endless Marxist attempts to falsely divide the country into groups they can pit against each other using hatred and fear, just so they can keep power they didn’t earn and clearly don’t deserve.
Isn’t it funny how often these Democrats accuse innocent people (by the millions) of crimes they actually stand for and practice themselves?
https://cis.org/Arthur/Disclosures-Biden-Has-Released-Nearly-105-million-SW-Border-Migrants-US
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has released more than a million illegal migrants into the US, transporting them free into the interior, where Democrats are then trying to register them to vote. Isn’t that interesting?
“The latest Biden administration disclosures in Biden v. Texas reveal that in May, DHS released 95,318 migrants CBP had encountered at the Southwest border into the United States, bringing the total of illegal migrant releases there under the Biden administration to 1,049,532 — a population larger than the number of residents in the president’s home state of Delaware..”
And isn’t it interesting that even Hispanic Texans along the border find this behavior disrespectful to their own citizenship (among other people of differing ethnicities), since like most black Americans, Democrats have simply Left our families behind to rot, even while they try to stampede our votes with fake racist headlines about innocent people, while the real racists make things worse for everyone and do nothing, because they believe this will get them reelected forever? And they call this behavior “compassion”! 😂
Best, with Love,
J Hedberg
John Hedberg • Jun 16, 2022 at 3:58 pm
“Elon Musk votes Republican for the first time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPTBiPPyCwo
John Hedberg • Jun 16, 2022 at 3:48 pm
“How a Latina Republican’s victory in Texas primary flipped the media narrative”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USeTC2CO3dA
John Hedberg • Jun 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm
p.s. It turns out that the man who drove through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, killing and injuring dozens of family members, was a “black supremacist”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235869/Waukesha-suspect-shared-social-media-posts-promoting-violence-white-people.html
Just a reminder that racism, and other forms of hatred (like trying to imply that “white” people are more racist as a group), are a human problem, not indigenous to any one homogenous group of people. Ask David Dorn (say his name), murdered by BLM because he didn’t fit the DNC hate-narrative.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/david-dorn-st-louis-police-shot-trnd/index.html
We’re all one human people, all diverse as individuals, but not the same according to any group (obviously). If you believe otherwise, you’re the bigot; you’re the racist, and the fear you teach to others is as wrong as anything the Nazi’s taught to other Germans about the Jews, as wrong as anything the Soviets taught other communists about the millions of Ukrainian farmers they committed genocide against. It’s the hatred itself that’s immoral, not which target you choose to inflict it upon. So stop, and stop teaching division by trying to spread your racist fears to other innocent people. Your only enemy, as it turns out, is yourself, until you choose to Love, and to let love overcome all that childish fear in the knowledge that we’re all children of the same Infinite Love (by whatever name), and we’re family in the ways we feel, think, perceive, suffer, and overcome together on the inside, where it counts. Always have been.
Best Regards,
J Hedberg
John Hedberg • Jun 15, 2022 at 3:43 pm
Partial “Re-Tweet”
Ironically, the DNC echo chamber which Vanessa is echoing from is not inclusive, has shown itself to be clearly racist itself, and only stays in power now by falsely accusing everyone around them of the very racism, division, science-denial, and corruption they practice daily themselves. I stand with Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, and Elon Musk. Today’s Democratic Party has moved so far Left, they’ve left most real liberals (like me) behind in a flurry of hateful rhetoric and empty finger-pointing at folks who are, by and large, entirely innocent of the crimes they’re daily being accused of by racist, bigoted, science-denying Democrats.
In 2020, Joe Biden told black America, “if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black”, telling everyone who the true racist leaders are: the ones who only look at a person by their race or “identity”, and erase all of their individual humanity outside those cartoon lines. Democrats have for years bragged about “replacement theory” as an actual policy, with the idea that more “immigrants of color” would automatically vote for them: “if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black” is the mind of the real racists. Ironically, increasing numbers of African Americans, Hispanic folks (I qualify), and immigrants from around the world aren’t following DNC hate-narratives, and they’re voting Republican. Most ironically of all, it’s Hispanic folks along the Texas border who are turning against Democrats most strongly, since they see the DNC “replacement” border policy as a crisis in their communities, and they’re fed up enough not only to vote Republican, but to run for office as Republicans. Evidently, to them, replacement policy is actual racism practiced by Democrats against “people of color” they assume to be their own voters, and folks of all colors are plain tired of being deliberately disadvantaged by Democrats who claim they’re here to help, but only mean they’re here to help themselves get more votes while they make things worse.
So, the “replacement theory” is an actual policy bragged about for years by racist Democrats who think that “color” is the only thing that matters, but it’s biting them in the backside, because increasingly larger numbers of ethnically diverse folks like me can see plainly that they care nothing about disadvantaged people aside from the votes and power they represent, and none of the problems Democrats falsely paint onto Republicans ever seem to get better, even in areas where Democrats are 100% in control, and have been for generations. It’s the Democrats now who are actually running their own Plantation, but the people they assumed would “vote for them if they’re black” are actually leaving these lying hypocrites behind… and watching Tucker Carlson, The Five, and other Fox News programming along with their usual diet of NPR and WaPo. They want actual diversity and solutions for a change, not just knee-jerk political labels to stampede their vote.
Finally, regarding the gun issue and the Uvalde massacre, Texas Governor Abbott was asked why he didn’t support more gun control after what happened. He said that areas like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York have those same strict gun laws that Democrats claim will solve the problem, but in those areas with the strictest gun laws, shootings are actually worse than Uvalde. Twenty innocent people, including children, are dying in those cities every weekend, so if those strict gun policies are the answer, why are the shootings getting worse in those areas, not better?
Interesting question, since it asks Americans to use logic instead of empty echo chamber talking points from politicians who like to point fingers, but seem quite content when things get worse, since (surprise!) it seems to keep them in power longer.
Just some thoughts, from me (and me Dad).
Best Regards,
J Hedberg