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A Simple Fix for White Nationalist Paranoia
If whites are so worried about ‘replacement’ due to birth rates, there is an easy alternative
“It’s the birthrates, it’s the birthrates, it’s the birthrates.”
So reads the first line of the manifesto by Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist who slaughtered 51 Muslims at the Al Noor Mosque and a nearby cultural center in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.
Throughout the screed, which he posted to the internet sewer known as 8chan shortly before his killing spree, Tarrant espoused portions of a theory known as the “Great Replacement.” It is a theory central to white nationalist thinking in the modern era, which holds that nonwhites and Muslims are reproducing at rates that will, along with immigration, eventually overrun white, Christian societies.
This same thinking, which often dovetails with the conspiracy theory that Jews and other “globalists” have orchestrated a plan to “genocide” whites, has been cited by white supremacists around the world in various forms. It was the basis for the chants of “You will not replace us,” and “Jews will not replace us,” which featured prominently in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017. And it has been articulated by politicians ranging from the European far-right to Iowa…
