RACISM + POLITICS
The Great Replacement Theory is at The Heart of Modern White Supremacy
There are no two sides to Payton Gendron’s attack on Black Americans
Yesterday, Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old self-proclaimed White Supremacist, killed ten people, injuring three more in a Buffalo, New York— all of them were Black. Gendron live-streamed himself while pursuing and shooting unarmed civilians inside Tops Friendly Market. And while Gendron was the only shooter on the premises calling him a lone wolf is misleading. After all, Fox News host Tucker Carlson and other prominent conservatives deliberately rekindled the “The Great Replacement Theory,” injecting white supremacist talking points into the mainstream political arena. As we’ve seen, spreading hateful rhetoric can have dire consequences, but so does the bothsiderism that seems to overshadow this nation’s moral compass.
Defending hate speech as “free speech” or a “difference of opinion” endangered Black lives. And even as anti-Black hate crimes continue to rise at a neck-break pace, the country finds itself marred in a debate about whether it’s divisive to talk about racism, white privilege, and white supremacy. Despite the carnage, white conservatives would have us believe that Critical Race Theory is the real problem here, not…
