The Great Replacement Theory Was Never 'Fringe'
In an 180-page screed posted online, the alleged gunman, Payton Grendon, justified his: The white race is"doomed," he wrote, because of declining white birth rates and the increase in immigrants and non-whites in the United States. Grendon’s carefully-planned violence was meant to put a dent in the inevitable"crisis" that he claimed is the"racial and cultural replacement of the European people.
Much of the early news coverage of the shooting described these views as"fringe"—aberrations that have crept out of the darkest corners of the internet into the mainstream in recent years. But, as the Gatsby reference demonstrates, they are neither new, nor fringe. They are not the beliefs ofThey are also not foreign ideas that have seeped into the American consciousness. These beliefs are a part of a distinctly home-grown ideology, one that, throughout the history of the U.S.
that"Goddard" is a portmanteau clubbing together the last names of two extremely influential thinkers in the early 20th century: Madison Grant and Theodore Lothrop Stoddard. Grant was born into a blue-blood New York family. As a youth, he spent his time off from private school either at his family’s estate in Long Island or traveling the world. As an adult, he graduated from Yale University and obtained a law degree from Columbia University. He wore many hats. Apart from running his own law practice in Manhattan, he was an anthropologist and
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