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Etymology
Calque of French Grand Remplacement.
Proper noun
the Great Replacement
- The gradual demographic and cultural replacement of the white French population in France by non-European peoples.
- (by extension) The gradual replacement of other white European populations, by non-European peoples, who are deliberately assisted by elites, according to a nationalist conspiracy theory.
2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Echoing the man accused of fatally shooting dozens of people at two mosques in New Zealand in March, the El Paso gunman’s manifesto mentioned the “great replacement,” a conspiracy theory that warns of white genocide.
2021, Andreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel, editors, Europe: Continent of Conspiracies, London: Routledge, →ISBN:The opponents of the ‘Great Replacement’ have to be ‘united to form a common front on a pan-European level’, since the battle stands between ‘replacists’ and ‘non-replacists’ only (43–44).
2021, Tom Brass, Marxism missing, missing Marxism , Leiden: BRILL, →ISBN, page 241:[…] instead of depicting this development as evidence for the Great Replacement […]
2021 September 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:[Éric Zemmour] does not hesitate to push the white nationalist conspiracy theory of the supposed great replacement of the established population by newer arrivals from Africa.
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