Thread by @PaulHRosenberg

The dark history of the "Great Replacement": Tucker Carlson's racist fantasy has deep roots. At @Salon, I draw on the work of @ADL, @ArunKundnani, @4GWDOTDOTDOT, @MJGerson, @DavidNeiwert, @ndrewwhitehead & @socofthesacred: 1/19
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"The great replacement is very simple," its originator has said. "You have one people, and in the space of a generation you have a different people." This equates immigration with genocide, which logically REQUIRES genocidal violence in response. It calls out for terrorism. 2/19

When @ADL called on Fox to #FireTuckerCarlson for invoking racist/antisemetic "Great Replacement" conspiracy, Fox refused, falsely claiming he "decried and rejected" it. But he didn't. He denied using it, reframing it as concern with "voting rights" (of white's, of course) 3/19

Here's a key passage where Carlson articulates his sanitized version--whites losing voting power & thus losing "America": 4/19

But conservative WaPo columnist @MJGerson saw through Carlson's thin disguise: "Nearly every phrase of Carlson's statement is the euphemistic expression of white-supremacist replacement doctrine." 5/19
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But it's also a much darker conspiracy theory to stand in for the evidence-less voter fraud conspiracy theory Republicans have been pushing for ~20 years: 6/

This week, Carlson attacked welcoming Afghan refugees by again invoking "The Great Replacement": nefarious elites importing nonwhite foreigners to replace white citizens, deceitfully taking advantage of their generous nature:
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But Carlson is merely a transmitter of these ideas forming a whole worldview whose modern origins can be found in a 1973 book—The Camp of the Saints—with several variations, explained by ex-intelligence analyst @4GWDOTDOTDOT in an earlier interview: 8/19
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These ideas have fueled multiple terrorist attacks, such as:
The 2011 murder of 77 Norwegians
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The 2018 murder of 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue,
adl.org/blog/deadly-sh…
The 2019 murder of 51 at two NZ mosques, bbc.com/19ews/world-as…
and... 9/19

The 2019 murder of 23 in El Paso, TX. 10/19
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The underlying "Camp of the Saints" worldview "is widespread in right-wing media, think tanks & political parties," @4GWDOTDOTDOT told me. "There is very little difference between the rhetoric of right-wing media and the rhetoric of right-wing terrorists or mass murderers." 11/19

In Europe, this evolved via 3 stages described by @ArunKundnani in "Blind Spot? Security Narratives and Far-Right Violence in Europe," icct.nl/app/uploads/do… referring to how rightwing terror had "had begun to absorb significant elements from official security narratives" 12/19

.@ArunKundnani's phrase, "the identity of Western liberal values," should set off alarm bells, coming from neo-Nazi-affiliated political activists. It's an example of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) [which I've written about before]: 13/19
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I asked @4GWDOTDOTDOT whether racist right-wingers claiming to be defenders of Western values offer a paradigmatic example of 4GW & he agreed: 14/19

.@4GWDOTDOTDOT had a lot more to say about how this dynamic has evolved. You can read the whole story here: 15/19
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But one last point: this worldview entails a "Great Replacement" of conservative ideas. Some elements (such as free trade) are dropped, other retained, but related in different ways, with new deeper significance & voter suppression *expresses* a core value. 16/19

If "invading hordes of immigrants" are the enemy and falling white birthrates are key to the problem, then the right's misogynist agenda & its xenophobic agenda are much more tightly linked than ever before. As is Christian nationalism per @ndrewwhitehead & @socofthesacred 17/19

In short, it's a much more unified worldview than Buckley or Reagan ever imagined, even encompasssing voter suppression as a core ingredient: 18/19

Thus, "The Great Replacement" is not just a conspiracy theory, but a conservative mythos. So the Great Replacement that has actually taken place is the replacement of the ideas, ideals and mores of conservatism.
19/19