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9 August 2019

The deadly myth of the “Great Replacement“

The shootings in El Paso are the latest expression of an unfounded and racist mythology.

By Eleanor Penny

It happened again. The suspect in the El Paso shooting is the latest in a ghoulish parade of white men who in recent years have taken it upon themselves to gun down crowds of civilians in the name of defending their race from the nefarious plots of suspected “invaders” bent on destroying white civilisation from within. 

The document written by the shooter credits the “Great Replacement” as his central motivation. Also known as “white genocide”, this is the increasingly popular conspiracy theory that the white race and the entirety of “western civilisation” are besieged by the combined forces of non-white migration and dwindling white birth-rates, orchestrated by multicultural, globalist [read: Jewish] elites in an attempt to undermine the integrity of white life. For the shooter, this could not be allowed to stand.

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