The racist “great replacement theory” allegedly espoused by the suspect in Saturday’s Buffalo supermarket shooting has long been a talking point for Fox News anchors and other pundits.
Before the shooting rampage that also left three wounded, the suspect, Payton S. Gendron, 18, allegedly posted a lengthy document invoking the idea that White Americans were at risk of being “replaced” by people of color because of immigration and higher birthrates.
Gendron, who is White, allegedly indicated that he chose a neighborhood with a large number of Black residents for his alleged attack. In the document that Gendron is suspected to have written, he indicated that he was radicalized online. There’s no indication that he watched Carlson’s program.The theory was once confined to far-right White extremists, who cast immigration as part of a plot by “elites” to take political and economic power away from White people.
Carlson, whose weeknight program is typically the most popular on Fox News, has been an especially avid promoter of the thesis. He has mentioned variations on the idea in more than 400 episodes since 2016, according toof his program.
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