On May 14, 18-year-old Payton Gendron shot 13 people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10. All but two of his victims were black. In a 180-page manifesto that is now almost impossible to find, Mr. Gendron justified the massacre as a blow against The Great Replacement:
This crisis of mass immigration and sub-replacement fertility is an assault on the European people that, if not combated, will ultimately result in the complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people. Mass immigration will disenfranchise us, subvert our nations, destroy our communities, destroy our ethnic ties, destroy our cultures, destroy our peoples.
Mr. Gendron wrote about many things: Jews, “rampant nihilism, consumerism and individualism,” “soulless metropolitan architecture,” fiat currency, and — at obsessive length — about weapons, ammunition, body armor, and boots.
In a Q&A section, he answered the question of whether he hated blacks. “A black man or woman living in their homelands? No. A black man or woman choosing to invade our lands, live on our soil . . . ? Yes, I dislike them.” His plan of action was blood-curdling: “I [will] shoot all black people twice in the chest if possible; I shoot all downed blacks twice in the head.”
However, Mr. Gendron also wrote: “The only people I truly hate are the converts, those from our own people [whites] that turn their backs on their heritage, turn their backs on their cultures, turn their back on their traditions and become blood traitors to their own race.”
Everything Mr. Gendron wrote and did was driven by fury at the replacement of whites in traditionally white-majority nations: “To preserve our cultures and people we must be physically separated,” he wrote. “Whites do not belong in Nigeria the same reason why blacks do not belong in England.”
Mr. Gendron was prepared to die to stop replacement: “Live or die, know I did it all for you; my friends, my family, my people, my culture, my race.”
What is “The Great Replacement” and why does it evoke such passion? The phrase is shorthand for large population changes such as this one:
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