Great Replacement

• great replacement

Calque of French Grand Remplacement. Coined by French novelist, conspiracy theorist and writer Renaud Camus in 2010.

the Great Replacement

1. A white nationalist conspiracy theory claiming the gradual demographic and cultural replacement of white European populations, by non-European peoples, who are deliberately assisted by elites.
   • 2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →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^[2], →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.

• replacism
• replacist
• replacement theory

• white genocide
• white replacement theory