Despite supposedly being a “right wing conspiracy,” I’m not very familiar with so-called “Great Replacement” theory. I do know, however, or at least I believe, it posits that a cabal of sneaky, conniving, cartoonish (((J-E-W-S))) has plans to replace whitey with hordes of third worlders.
What’s no surprise to me is that the apparent bigotry of this belief has been a useful cudgel for the very people who depend financially and politically on unchecked mass migration. Simply raise a hand and go, “do we really need so many illiterate Guats in suburban Virginia?” and they accuse you of being not just a racial bigot, but adhering to this “right wing conspiracy theory.”
Setting cartoon Jewish cabals aside, the current moral panic over conspiracy theories writ large – which I believe is finally subsiding, if only by degrees – is funny for a number of reasons.
First, the very people who propelled and institutionalized the moral panic did it as they concurrently propagated the mother of all conspiracy theories. Namely, that Donald Trump, who they called an idiot, was also a super spy conspiring with Vlad Putin to steal an election underneath the most expansive, technologically sophisticated surveillance apparatus mankind has ever known.
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