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The Great Replacement: A Conspiracy’s Journey from Fringe to Tragedy
Tracing the path from Renaud Camus’s writings to Stephen Miller’s policies and a racially motivated mass shooting
The Great Replacement Theory is in the news because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who has often promoted the theory. It’s time to revisit the origin of the theory and how it evolved to this moment.
“This is the Great Replacement Theory. Remember, we talked about — they want to replace white Anglo‑Saxon Christian Protestants with Mexicans, Nicaraguans, with El Salvadorians? You have seen the result of the great replacement. In California, 1 in 4 people have been born outside the U.S. … You can see the white population collapse in LA. That’s intentional.” — Charlie Kirk
The Great Replacement Theory is a white nationalist conspiracy claiming that Jewish people and other minorities are orchestrating the demographic “replacement” of white populations — a supposed threat to white political and cultural dominance.
This story unfolds in four parts:
- An uproar at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA
2. The theory’s French origins
