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The idea that immigration is an invasion - part of a race war to replace whites with nonwhites - is incredibly common in rightist circles.
The idea that Democrats are importing immigrants in order to import votes - which the El Paso killer repeated in his manifesto - is pretty similar to fears of Irish immigration in the 1800s:
And the idea that (mostly Irish and German) Catholic immigrants were going to launch a surprise genocide of Protestants was surprisingly widespread even in the late 19th century!
Meanwhile, the idea that immigration is itself a form of racial genocide was somewhat common in the early 20th century. The idea was called "race suicide":
So, none of this is new. Instead of pogroms and rampages through Catholic neighborhoods and mass lynchings of immigrants, we have stochastic terrorism and 8chan killers.
The more things change...
The more things change...
