The Great Replacement Theory
The Biggest Fear of White Supremacists
The Republican Party scheduled the first televised debate on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Donald Trump elected to skip the debate, appearing instead in a pre-taped interview with Tucker Carlson, the fired Fox News host known for espousing his white supremacist views, notably the “Great Replacement Theory.” The theory suggests white people are being replaced by Jewish people and other minorities, a threat to white power.
This story has four parts; an uproar on the campus of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA; the French origins of the theory; how it infiltrated the Trump White administration and American foreign policy, and finally, a mass shooter in Buffalo, NY targeting Black people because of what he read about Great Replacement.
Georgia Southern University began its life in 1906 as the First District Agricultural & Mechanical School, which…
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