From opinion columnist ejmontini: The racist, xenophobic 'great replacement' conspiracy isn't only being spewed by the lunatic fringe. It's being spewed by the lunatic mainstream.
An 18-year-old gunman wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in what authorities described as “racially motived violent extremism,” killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday before he surrendered, authorities said.
We need to be honest about where a young man now could hear such a nasty falsehood and come to believe it. Certainly it’s available online at the fanatical edge of the internet. And Gendron seemed to have spent time there. He also said things like, “In political terms, this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries.”
In Arizona we’ve heard several variations of it, often talking about an “invasion” of immigrants, from Republican Senate candidates Mark Brnovich, Jim Lamon and Blake Masters. And from GOP candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake. And from others.
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