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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

'Great replacement theory' and its deep roots in America

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Great replacement theory -- the erroneous belief that there's an effort underway to 'replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.' That fear has moved from the fringes to the mainstream. As many as one in three Americans say they believe it. Jeffery Robinson and Ricky Jones join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store, in for Magna Chakrabardi.

0:29.3

And this is on point.

0:31.3

A little over a week ago, as they went about their weekend errands on a muggy Saturday

0:35.3

afternoon, 10 people were shot to death and three injured at the top's friendly supermarket

0:41.2

in a predominantly black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.

0:44.6

The 18-year-old alleged gunman is said to have embraced a racist conspiracy theory known

0:50.1

as the Great Replacement Theory.

0:52.2

The shooting in Buffalo, New York has been connected to this theory because it was repeatedly

0:56.6

referenced in a 180-page document linked to the reported shooter, the author used racist,

1:02.6

anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic beliefs, and wrote about how he planned to quote kill

1:07.1

as many blacks as possible.

1:09.3

Proponents of the Great Replacement Theory believe that politically motivated liberal elites

1:14.0

are intentionally encouraging and enabling non-white immigrants to come to the U.S. with

1:19.8

the goal that those immigrants will outnumber Native-born Americans.

1:24.6

It's like Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

1:27.1

There is a strong political component to the Democratic Party's immigration policy.

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