![]() “But at the heart of it, it’s all, like, the same 30 dudes.” Through this network, White nationalists produced books and pseudoacademic journals purporting to show White people evolved to have higher IQs and commit less crime than people of color and Jews, who evolved to trick White people into supporting diversity. “All the different fronts have a specific purpose to bring in slightly different groups of people,” Heimbach said. Other groups have different messages: the National Policy Institute, fronted by Richard Spencer and designed to “elevate the consciousness of whites” the Occidental Quarterly, run by CMS member Kevin MacDonald and presenting itself as a scholarly journal American Third Position, later rebranded as the American Freedom Party, led by Johnson with “a platform that is predicated on the preservation of our traditional European roots.” “CMS is in many ways the heart,” said Matt Heimbach said, who cofounded the Traditionalist Worker Party and in 2020 said he left White nationalism and is a Marxist-Leninist. The Charles Martel Society is a secret society of White nationalists who consider themselves intellectuals. ![]() Reality Check: The growing body count behind 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory “I’ve been told not to say anything regarding that.” “I don’t know how you’re getting information regarding that,” White nationalist lawyer Bill Johnson told me last year of CMS. An important vehicle for that was the Charles Martel Society, created in 2001 by textile heir Bill Regnery, who died last year. In the 2000s, White nationalists were frustrated with being portrayed as “White trash,” so their focus turned to trying to develop an upscale, academic veneer to their racism. Understanding how replacement theory grew and spread helps explain why. I hope we live to see more of it burn.”įascism has been making some big moves in the past decade in the US and Europe. A post on the online forum 4chan after the Buffalo shooting reads: “This world is Hell. But there is also just an overwhelming sense of nihilism. Some want to stop immigration to the United States or expel from it people of color, Jews, liberals or transgender people. The goals of adherents to this conspiracy theory are vague, often represented by idealized images of White families with square-jawed husbands and well-behaved wives, or simply blonde women in wheatfields – literally, just pictures of women in fields. What we know about Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron Sometimes they claim Jews are in cahoots with “the elite,” but that’s often just code for Jews.Ī police officer lifts the tape cordoning off the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. And here’s how this bizarre theory plays out: Jews trick White women into having babies with people of color, and they trick White men into becoming transgender, all in service of making the population less White and easier to control. To White nationalists now, replacement theory – according to hundreds of posts, interviews, and podcasts – goes like this: Jews, whom Camus did not mention, evolved to be clever people in the entire Southern Hemisphere evolved to be less smart and have more sex women evolved to be compliant and conformist. The term was popularized by French writer Renaud Camus with his 2011 essay, “Le Grand Remplacement,” which posited White Europeans were being replaced by Muslim immigration. ![]() 'Replacement' conspiracies driving gunmen creep into mainstream politicsĮlements of replacement theory have been around a long time. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Graeme Sloan/SIPAPRE/Sipa USA/AP
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