The Racist Theory Behind So Many Mass Shootings

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Over the weekend, an 18-year-old man livestreamed himself shooting 13 people and killing 10. Within hours it became clear that the shooter’s intent was to kill as many Black people as possible. The suspect wrote online that he was motivated by replacement theory — a racist idea that white people are deliberately being replaced by people of color in places like America and Europe. What are the origins of this theory, and how has it become simultaneously more extreme and more mainstream? Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael O'Barrill.
0:03.8	This is The Daily.
0:05.0	We begin tonight with breaking news, a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
0:14.8	Witnesses to say a gunman dressed in army fatigues and a helmet walked into a supermarket
0:19.6	and then opened fire on shoppers and staff.
0:22.4	At least ten years.
0:23.4	Over the weekend, an eighteen-year-old man drove several hours from his home to a grocery
0:29.3	store in Buffalo, New York, where he live streamed himself shooting thirteen people and killing
0:37.2	ten of them.
0:38.2	You could hear where the gunshots were, how close they were coming and I said, where's
0:42.3	my baby?
0:43.3	I said, my baby, where the sheep.
0:45.3	I didn't know where she was.
0:48.8	He shot a woman, he shot a beacon, he shot another woman and then he went in.
0:53.2	Among the victims was a retired police officer, a church-deacon and a grandmother of eight.
1:00.8	It's hard to even lustre, I just, it's unbelievable.
1:05.4	I'm lost of words.
1:06.7	You know, I frequent this store all the time.
1:08.7	I've never been afraid to be here.
1:11.2	I am now.
1:13.2	I am now.
1:20.3	Within hours, it became clear that the shooter's intent was to kill as many black people as
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