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The recent shooting in Buffalo has revived America’s dialogue around the “great replacement theory,” the conspiracy that the alleged gunman — and many others who have targeted racial minorities, immigrants, Jews, Muslims and queer people — have cited as inspiration. The theory, which originated in the early 20th century but has been prevalent in white…
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Download and print our free magazine of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. On Tuesday, three days after the horrific Buffalo supermarket massacre targeting Black…
A mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. killed 10 and wounded three, and opened a national conversation about the insidiousness of the racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories that appear to have motivated the suspected shooter. It also deprived a predominantly Black neighborhood of its primary grocery store. Beyond the Tops, the…
When an 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo and opened fire Saturday, killing 10 people, he was targeting Black people. In the diatribe he published to explain his motivations, though, he focuses more on another group: Jews. In a Q&A in which he both poses and answers the questions, the suspect, Payton S. Grendon,…
The tragic attack in Buffalo was bound to happen somewhere. The horrific mass shooting, which left 10 dead and three injured, followed a predictable pattern. A white American man who felt small was whipped into a violent rage by conspiracy-peddlers online and on TV. He wrote a rambling screed full of hate toward Jews and…
Rooted in xenophobic fears of a multicultural future, the great replacement theory has been gaining ground in conservative and far-right circles, motivating some of the world’s deadliest mass shootings, including the one Saturday in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people at a supermarket, apparently targeted because it serves a predominantly Black neighborhood. Those who…
Let’s talk about “The Great White Replacement Theory.” If you would rather not, or if you believe it’s too ridiculous a lie to confront, please consider just one simple and undeniable fact documented by new polling — how popular it is in America. For the uninitiated, “The White Replacement Theory” claims that there is a…
A few hours after he learned about yesterday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, President Joe Biden urged us to “address the hate that remains a stain in the soul of the country.” This was not the first time the president diagnosed our nation’s soul in the wake of such violence. Following last year’s mass shooting in…
