Demonizing The Immigrant

in #informationwar5 years ago

Have you ever heard about "The Great Replacement"? If not, I urge you to look it up; it's a white nationalist conspiracy theory, also known as "replacement theory", which states that the white French population, as well as the white European population at large is slowly but surely being replaced with non white, mainly Muslim populations from Africa and the Middle East, through mass migration.


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source: The Blue Diamond Gallery

The "Great Replacement" theory was developed by French essayist Renaud Camus, initially in a 2010 book titled L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence ("Abecedarium of no-harm"), and the following year in an eponymous book, Le Grand Remplacement (introduction au remplacisme global). According to him, the "Great Replacement" has been nourished by "industrialisation," "despiritualisation" and "deculturation"; the materialistic society and globalism having created a "replaceable human, without any national, ethnic or cultural specificity," what he labels "global replacism." Camus claims that "the great replacement does not need a definition," as the term is not, in his views, a "concept" but rather a "phenomenon".
source: Wikipedia

Although this started in France under the name "grand remplacement," this has fast become a popular conspiracy theory in the entire western hemisphere. Where I live, in The Netherlands, this theory is adopted by right wing extremist entities like the Party for Freedom (PVV) and popular Dutch website GeenStijl; they suggest it is an "undisputed fact" that there's a common consensus among the European Union's governing elite that Europeans are "no good and can be better replaced." Parties with similar opinions and rhetoric are growing all over Europe and in the United States things aren't any better. Many white Western men and women seem genuinely concerned about the destruction of their culture and civilization which is, in my book, nonsensical. Europe and America have never been exclusively white and cultures have always mixed and assimilated, there's no replacement, just evolution.

But that's not the point today. I've often posted, and will do so in the future, about the power of propaganda, and this growing belief in something as far fetched as this Great Replacement is an interesting case; consumers of mainstream media have been grilled into this belief for years. In general it can be said of almost all news-programs that they focus on the problems with first generation immigrants, and that they ignore the benefits that second and third generation immigrants bring to society. In times of economic hardship, now since 2008, the immigrants are always the scapegoat of choice for the right wing populists who seem to always prevail in such times. It's the language used and the topics chosen when reporting on immigrants that are the responsibility of large media outlets, as they have a real influence on people's minds, opinions, worldviews and so on. And when immigrants are always discussed with the use of terms like "invasion" and "criminals", well, I'll let you fill in the rest.

Much focus is given now to U.S. president Trump in the wake of two new mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, because one of the shooters referred directly to a "Hispanic invasion," a term used by Trump on several occasions. But it's not just Trump; it's Fox News too, and all other media that parrot this rhetoric, inside and outside of the U.S. Just watch the linked video, a short compilation of how immigrants have been discussed lately on Fox news. It's quite appalling if you ask me, but it's important to remember these are just the most obvious examples from just one network;


How Fox pushed the white supremacist "replacement" conspiracy theory


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