Thread by @HMAesq

The Buffalo terrorist left yet another manifesto that once again cited the Great Replacement Theory (GRT) pushed by @TuckerCarlson, @IngrahamAngle, Donald Trump, @StephenM, and others in what @DefineAmerican calls the Great Replacement Network.

defineamerican.com/research/great…

Yes, it's a movement - and a well-funded one. No longer a fringe viewpoint confined to white supremacist dens like American Renaissance or Stormfront: it's mainstream. A tribute to the success of its funders.

Talked w @shaysiggs on MSNBC:

Do you know what the antidote to GRT is?

Critical race theory.

In 1995, Prof. Cornel West wrote that #CRT "...rejects the prevailing orthodoxy that scholarship should be or could be 'neutral' and 'objective'" as "scholarship...is inevitably political." (Exhibit A: leaked SCOTUS opinion overturning #RoeVWade in Dobbs v. Jackson)

I certainly would not ascribe the term scholarship to a racist illusion like GRT, but there is, and has been, pseudoscholarship defending it. (eg, @CIS_org, @NumbersUSA)

The Define American report tackles one tentacle of GRT: opposition to all immigration.

I've spent the last 5 years wading through Dr. John Tanton's extant archive at the University of Michigan in my lawsuit to unseal his remaining papers precisely to shed light on systemic white supremacy underlying our immigration law.

motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

Tanton wrote in 1975 that granting birthright citizenship to "children of illegal aliens...may become a highly undesirable situation."

And if Tanton's old buddies like John Trevor, Jr., the son of the chief patron of the viscerally racist 1924 Immigration Act are any indication, GRT has been a fear for a long time.

Why else would the Trumpified, Tuckerized GOP be so against CRT?