The Great Replacement (French: Le grand remplacement) is a term originally coined by a French writer Renaud Camus who first used it to describe the demographic replacement happening in France because of its mass immigration policies and low birth rates among the native French. In his book, he writes:
I have coined the phrase Great Replacement (in French Grand Remplacement) to denote the brutal change of population which has been taking place in France (and in Europe) since the beginning of the last quarter of the last century; and which has been gaining momentum ever since.
The name came to me as I was travelling to write a sort of literary guidebook about the département of Hérault, in Languedoc, Southern France, when I discovered that thousand year-old villages had their population largely transformed, with women wearing the Islamic veil gathering at the 18th-century fountain and other appearing at gothic twin windows. I was accustomed for long to the existence of large modern banlieues almost entirely populated by immigrants, but this was an altogether different experience.
The name I gave it was probably dictated to me by more or less conscious historical memories of the Great Upheaval of the Acadians, in 18th-century Canada. There was nothing strictly deliberate in my choice of words. ... The fact remains that entire streets, districts, towns, regions, not to mention schools, which had had for centuries a given population, suddenly have an entirely different one. The face of the country has been transformed to an unimaginable extent. So has its body, and so has its mind, and soul.
The Great Replacement (French: Le grand remplacement) is a term originally coined by a French writer Renaud Camus who first used it to describe the demographic replacement happening in France because of its mass immigration policies and low birth rates among the native French. In his book, he writes: I have coined the phrase Great Replacement (in French Grand Remplacement) to denote the. File Belongs to Suspended Account. Well, looks like we can’t go any further. Something appears to be missing. When neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 with tiki torches, they too invoked the “great replacement,” chanting, “They will not replace us,” and “Jews will not replace us.” Proponents of the “great replacement” believe Jews are responsible for hastening nonwhite immigration.
Renaud Camus. You Will Not Replace Us!. 2018Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that the “great replacement,” a white supremacist conspiracy theory that immigrants are being used to displace the native population, is “true.” Carlson. In actual fact, what this means is the replacement of British people with non-British people. To assume everybody is the same is naive.
The same term can be applied to all other white populations both in Europe and abroad - from Germany, to England, to the United States, all of which have below replacement birth rates and migration policies that pose the same existential threat. Of all the different races of people on this planet, only the European races are uniquely facing the possibility of extinction in a relatively near future.
The purpose of this site is the documentation of European decline both demographically and culturally, and spreading awareness of the term 'The Great Replacement' both on the internet through hashtags like #TheGreatReplacement and #GreatReplacement and in conversations in the real world, which hopefully will inspire a change in cultural and political attitudes before it is too late.
In addition, it should replace the previous term that was used to describe the same population replacement phenomenon as #WhiteGenocide, which wouldn't have been as effective outside the United States, although YouTube alone shows over 50,000 results when you do an exact search for 'white genocide' - most of them in English.
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Tucker Carlson's at it again.
As Salon's Kaity Assaf reported last week, the unctuous Fox News host delivered more grotesque, racist commentary last week, this time explicitly endorsing the hardcore white supremacist 'great replacement' theory on his top-rated TV show. Throwing it out there in a discussion of the assault on voting rights around the country Carlson said, 'the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate' with 'new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.' It's a line Carlson has been called out for before.
Back in 2019, in the wake of the mass murder of mostly Latinos at an El Paso Walmart by a violent racist who quoted great replacement theories in his manifesto, Carlson declared that 'white supremacy' is 'a hoax' that is 'used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.' I wrote then about Carlson's affinity for the belief system that inspired the killing and explained the crude fundamentals of the theory:
[T]he 'Great Replacement' theory is a big deal among white nationalists worldwide. Essentially it comes down to two intersecting ideas. They believe that 'the west' is threatened by immigrants from non-white countries resulting in white people being 'replaced.' And the whole thing is part of a secret Jewish conspiracy to rule a one-race world. The Fox News 'mainstream' American version doesn't fully embrace the second idea, at least not publicly. But they are all-in on the first one, cleverly couching it in partisan political terms as a Democratic Party strategy to deny Republicans (who are, as we all know, nearly all white) their God-given right to be a majority of this country.
You can see why so many Jewish groups were appalled by Carlson repeating his comments again last week, this time blithely insisting that 'left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement.' Yes, people do get a little bit upset when major TV celebrities use their platform to sell anti-Semitic drivel to their viewers.
The Anti-Defamation League demanded that Carlson be fired, but there is no word yet as to whether any action will be taken. Just because these toxic beliefs have influenced the recent mass murderers at an El Paso Walmart, a Pittsburgh synagogue and a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, along with the Nazi marchers in Charlottesville Virginia who were literally chanting 'Jews will not replace us' apparently doesn't mean that Fox News has a responsibility to not spread them further.
It's important to note here that the gunman in El Paso also criticized corporations, which made many observers scratch their heads at the time, but it shouldn't have. White supremacists who believe in the great replacement theory consider corporations enemies, but not for economic populist reasons, as I wrote at the time of the Walmart shooting:
They see anti-corporatism and environmentalism as necessary to save Western civilization, not because corporations are sucking the life from working people and killing the planet but because corporations and climate change are creating conditions that make brown and Black people migrate to countries with predominantly white populations. And among the 'ecofascist' alt-right and the neo-Nazis, environmentalism is based upon reverence for 'the land of your people' which explains the Charlottesville marchers chanting the Nazi slogan 'Blood and Soil.' Carlson hasn't gone that far but these people are all walking in the same direction.
Carlson's recent rant also tied the great replacement into one of the hoariest, right-wing tropes of all: the insistence that the only reason Democrats want to have humane immigration laws is that they believe immigrants will vote for them and make it impossible for so-called real Americans to be represented in 'their own country.' He said, 'if you change the population, you dilute the political power of the people who live there. So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter.'
That's right. The people who are moving heaven and earth to suppress voting all over the country in the wake of Donald Trump's Big Lie, are being disenfranchised by voters who don't look like them. People like Carlson and Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham have been selling this line forever, but it is finding new life being tied in with the great replacement.
The funny thing is that as ridiculous as it is to believe that immigrants are 'replacing' real Americans in a country where the only people in it who aren't the descendants of immigrants or trafficked African slaves are Native Americans, there actually is a sort of great replacement going on —but it's coming from within the country.
Those corporations the white supremacists hate for creating the conditions that incentivize migration have responded to the tax incentives offered by conservative states and have relocated there, bringing a bunch of those loathsome progressive social values with them. It's one of the reasons some of those former red states have been turning purple. And the recent corporate activism on voting rights has been driven at least in part by the last few decades of diversity in hiring which means that many of them have high-level Black and Hispanic executives who bring their own experiences to the job and they are influencing policy. The Texas Monthly reported that the state GOP is becoming quite agitated by the influx of Californians who have recently invaded their state. Tucker Carlson is agitated about it too:
In December, [Governor Greg Abbott] made a comical appearance on Tucker Carlson's popular Fox News show. Carlson, a San Francisco–born, San Diego–raised pundit, congratulated Abbott, who grew up in Wichita Falls and Longview, on Texas's population growth. But why, Carlson wondered, had Abbott let in so many coastal elites?
Above a characteristically calm chyron—'The Next California: Onlookers Horrified by Recent Texas Trends'—Carlson argued that Californians would be the death of Texas. 'We've seen this across the country, where people flee a collapsing, crummy state and then wreck the state they go to,' he said. 'Are you worried that all these Californians will bring their values and degrade the state of Texas?'
Apparently, the great replacement isn't just a threat that immigrants are going to replace God-fearing real Americans. Californians (as well as residents of other blue states, of course) are also threatening to replace God-fearing real Americans by moving to their states and 'degrading' the place with their presence. What do you suppose Carlson has in mind to put a stop to that?
The fact is that we are all going to be 'replaced' by the generations that come up behind us. And I'm afraid that Tucker Carlson and his white supremacist allies are going to be replaced by a generation that is overwhelmingly repelled by his ideology and everything it stands for. That, of course, will be really, really great.