<ul class="summary-list"><li>Biden called white supremacy a "poison" during remarks in <keyword id="6432379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo" source="Orion">Buffalo</keyword> after a deadly weekend shooting. </li><li>The president also condemned those who "profit" from spreading <keyword id="12369326" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="great-replacement" source="Orion">great replacement</keyword> theory.</li></ul>Speaking at an event in Buffalo following the fatal shooting of 10 people at a supermarket, President <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword> labeled white supremacy a "poison" and condemned those who spread the racist "great replacement theory."Biden drew a link on Tuesday between other recent mass shootings, as well as the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the shooting in Buffalo as being part of the same broad current within American <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>."White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison," Biden declared, "running through our body politic, that's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. No more.The suspected shooter, 18-year-old <keyword id="13951540" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="payton-gendron" source="Orion">Payton Gendron</keyword>, was an avowed white nationalist who subscribed to a form of what's known as "great replacement theory," <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/16/buffalo-shooting-previous-supermarket-confrontation/">according to a compilation of messages</a> written by someone who identified as Gendron. The great replacement theory posits that non-white immigrants are diluting the racial purity and cohesion of the country, "I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political game and for profit," said Biden, without naming anyone person or entity in particular.Versions of the theory have been promoted by <keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword>' Tucker Carlson and Republican members of Congress, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elise-stefanik-buffalo-shooting-comments-immigration-replacement-republican-north-country-2022-5">most notably House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York</a>. Most frequently, arguments about replacement theory are framed in terms of voter power, with Republicans arguing that Democrats want to use immigration to dilute Republican votes."Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION," a September ad from Stefanik read. "Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington."On Tuesday, House Democratic leaders condemned Stefanik by name at their weekly press conference, with House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York calling her an "unserious person" while arguing that "history is going to condemn her behavior."And Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-schumer-fox-news-floor-speech-replacement-theory-2022-5">slammed Fox News and Tucker Carlson for promoting the theory</a> on Monday."The message is not always explicit, but we've all seen the pattern," Schumer said in a floor speech. "Every time MAGA Republicans or pundits vilify wrongly immigrants and call them 'invaders,' every time they falsely claim that millions of undocumented people cast ballots in our elections, every time loud, bigoted voices bemoan the disintegration of a 'classic America' the subtext is clear."But Biden kept his remarks general."Hate and fear are being given too much oxygen by those who pretend to love America," said Biden. "Or don't understand America."

Biden calls white supremacy 'a poison' and slams those who 'profit' off the racist great replacement theory during remarks in Buffalo

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An 18-year-old man is in custody after killing 10 people in a <keyword id="6432379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo" source="Orion">Buffalo</keyword>, NY., <keyword id="11945515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supermarket" source="Orion">supermarket</keyword> on Saturday. </li><li>The <keyword id="11922278" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shooting" source="Orion">shooting</keyword> was livestreamed on Amazon's video-streaming service, <keyword id="11908908" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="twitch" source="Orion">Twitch</keyword>, and planned on Discord.</li></ul>On Saturday, as an 18-year-old white gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY — in what authorities are calling a racially-motivated attack targeting Black people — viewers on Amazon-owned Twitch were able to watch it live.<a href="https://www.insider.com/upstate-new-york-tops-supermarket-mass-shooting-injuries-fatalities-police-2022-5">Before the shooting, in which 10 people were killed</a>, the suspect is said to have discussed intimate details about his plan in a private server on the popular chat service Discord.And even earlier, according to a 180-page manifesto seen by Insider and purportedly written by the shooter, the anonymous chat forum 4chan helped radicalize him."There I learned through infographics, shitposts, and memes that the White race is dying out, that blacks are disproportionately killing Whites, that the average black takes $700,000 from tax-payers in their lifetime, and that the Jews and the elite were behind this," he wrote, much of which is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-mass-shooting-latest-linked-to-great-replacement-theory-2022-5">a reference to the racist "Great Replacement" theory</a>. The horrific event over the weekend in Buffalo follows an eerily similar pattern to other shootings in recent history sparked by racial or religious hatred: White-nationalist radicalization fueled largely by social media, followed by a violent act committed before a live audience. The <a href="https://www.insider.com/new-zealand-shooting-christchurch-2019-3">Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting</a> in May 2019, where over 50 Muslim worshippers were killed, was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-responds-to-alleged-live-stream-of-christchurch-shooting-2019-3">broadcast live on Facebook</a>. The shooter, a white male, is said to have posted a 74-page manifesto ahead of the attack which heavily referenced the same racist theory, and even shared the same title.In October 2019, a white German gunman attempted to enter a synagogue on Yom Kippur. When he was unable to breach the front door, he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2-people-killed-shooting-synagogue-germany-grenade-2019-10">killed two bystanders instead</a> — all of which he streamed to Twitch, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/thousands-watched-livestream-of-german-synagogue-shooting-2019-10">where over 2,000 people saw it</a> before the service removed the archived stream. On the stream, the gunman echoed the same talking points from the same racist "Great Replacement" theory. "The root of all these problems is the Jew," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2-people-killed-shooting-synagogue-germany-grenade-2019-10">he said</a>.Despite attempts to moderate hate speech and violent livestreams, social-media and streaming platform companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Discord are seemingly unable to prevent hate speech and violence from appearing in the first place.To wit: It's been nearly three years since the shooting in Germany, yet Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, NY. was livestreamed to the same Amazon-owned video streaming service which had largely the same response it did nearly three years ago."Twitch has a zero-tolerance policy against violence of any kind and works swiftly to respond to all incidents," a company representative told Insider on Saturday. "The user has been indefinitely suspended from our service, and we are taking all appropriate action, including monitoring for any accounts rebroadcasting this content."The livestream was said to have been taken down within two minutes of the broadcast's start. Discord, similarly, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/14/nyregion/buffalo-shooting">told the New York Times</a> it was working with <keyword id="11899820" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="law" source="Orion">law</keyword> enforcement to help investigate the suspect's posts. "We will do everything we can to assist law enforcement in the investigation," the statement said.Representatives for Twitch and Discord didn't respond to requests for comment as of publishing.Got a tip? Contact Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@insider.com">bgilbert@insider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. 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The Buffalo shooting highlights disturbing connection between white-nationalist extremism and social media

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Far-right videos made by a British teen were viewed by two men who went on to commit mass shootings.</li><li>Daniel Harris, 19, has been sentenced to 11 and a half years over the videos.</li></ul>A British teenager has been sentenced over far-right videos that might have helped inspire two US mass shooters.Daniel Harris, 19, has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in a young offender institution after he published a "stream of rightwing terrorist bile" from a bedroom at his grandfather's house in Derbyshire, the judge said during his sentencing Friday, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/uk-teenager-daniel-harris-sentenced-far-right-videos-us-killers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>.These videos called for the "total extermination of subhumans," Manchester crown court heard, the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64426075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> reported and glorified various far-right killers, including Anders Breivik. Some of the videos also provided instructions on how to commit similar atrocities.The court previously heard that his videos had been viewed by two men who went on to commit mass murders in the US last year.Payton Gendron, the then-18-year-old mass shooter who killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, last May, was known to have watched Harris' videos.The Buffalo shooter commented on a video made by Harris about the perpetrator behind the 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, The Guardian reported.An unknown user commented: "This video has moved me. I was on the fence, now I am committed to my race."The Buffalo shooter responded: "You are not alone my friend."During Harris' trial, his videos were also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/26/uk-far-right-teenager-inspired-us-gay-nightclub-shooting-suspect-judge-told">linked to Anderson Lee Aldrich</a>, 22, accused of killing five people at a mass shooting in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado last November."What they did was truly appalling, but what they did was no more than what you intended others to do by publishing this material online," Judge Field KC said during his sentencing on Friday.Field added that Harris's videos were "sophisticated, well-made and slickly produced and were not obviously the product of a 17- or 18-year-old".The judge referenced the Buffalo shooter, commenting that there was "evidence that others have acted on or been assisted by your encouragement to carry out racist attacks. I have in mind the encouragement related to Payton Gendron before he carried out his shooting in Buffalo state, New York.""This indicates that the videos you produced had had some influence on a young man, who I note was a similar age to you, who went out and shot ten Black people dead in Buffalo."Harris was found guilty of five counts of encouraging terrorism and another count of his trying to build a semi-automatic gun using a 3D printer, per The Guardian.Detective Inspector Chris Brett from Counter-Terrorism Policing in the East Midlands said Harris was behind "a concerted effort to generate a following and influence people," the BBC reported."Harris was ultimately deemed not to have been groomed, rather, his provocative words and inflammatory films were potentially radicalizing others."

A British youth working from a bedroom at his grandfather's house made 'slick videos' that could have inspired 2 US mass shooters, a court heard

<ul class="summary-list"><li>New York's latest mass <keyword id="11922278" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shooting" source="Orion">shooting</keyword> was outlined in an online manifesto.</li><li>Gov. <keyword id="11947996" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kathy-hochul" source="Orion">Kathy Hochul</keyword> wants social media leaders to stop similar content from reaching others. </li></ul>Social media companies need to stop the dissemination of racist <keyword id="11921389" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="conspiracy-theories" source="Orion">conspiracy theories</keyword> like those featured in the "bone-chilling" manifesto attributed to the nation's latest alleged mass shooter, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday. "This is spreading like wildfire," Hochul told CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash during an interview from Buffalo, New York. That's where 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, who has <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-murder-2022-5">been charged with first-degree murder</a>, allegedly opened fire at a Tops grocery store in what officials described as a racially motivated attack that left 10 people dead. Hochul urged CEOs helming popular social media hubs to halt the radicalization of impressionable Americans by taking down the hateful material before it influences others. "This can not be part of our mainstream dialogue," Hochul said. She added that the prospect of having hateful rhetoric like the manifesto shared with the rest of the world "is what is so fundamentally disturbing about all this." According to the racist and anti-semitic manifesto posted online, Gendron chose that particular location because it had the highest percentage of Black residents near his home. 11 of the 13 people shot at Tops on Saturday were Black — including a security guard who confronted Gendron — and two were white. The manifesto referenced the so-called <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-endorses-white-supremacist-replacement-conspiracy-theory-2021-4">replacement theory</a>, a conspiracy theory popular with white supremacists, which claims whites are being replaced by people of color. It also indicated that Gendron was inspired by other mass shooters, including Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black church members during a Bible study session in South Carolina in 2015, and Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people at mosques in New Zealand in 2019.

'Spreading like wildfire': NY Gov. Kathy Hochul demands tech CEOs remove radicalizing content like the alleged Buffalo shooter's 'bone-chilling' manifesto

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A gunman fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo, New York supermarket on Saturday. </li><li>Authorities found a racist manifesto and consider the attack motivated by racism.</li></ul>House Speaker <keyword id="128640" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nancy-pelosi" source="Orion">Nancy Pelosi</keyword> says the US needs to balance between free speech and security following a mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. "America is a great country. Our freedom is so important to us, but that freedom also carries public safety with it, and we have to balance those," Pelosi said during an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1525842731960045570?s=20&amp;t=pIwXmm-mRNrqWavembd5Aw"> ABC's "This Week."</a>On Saturday, <a href="https://www.insider.com/upstate-new-york-tops-supermarket-mass-shooting-injuries-fatalities-police-2022-5">10 people were fatally shot when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire</a> on customers and employees at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Officials said the suspected gunman, Payton Gendron, drove more than three hours to the grocery store that's in a predominantly Black neighborhood.Police believe the shooting was motivated by racism and are investigating a racist manifesto that offers insight into Gendron's motives. Pelosi on Sunday said everyone has to stay vigilant about threats. "There has to be vigilance," Pelosi <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1525841421361631238?s=20&amp;t=pIwXmm-mRNrqWavembd5Aw">said</a>. "People have to alert other authorities if they think that someone is on a path to domestic terrorism, to violence of any kind."Earlier on Sunday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called on<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kathy-hochul-buffalo-shooting-conspiracy-theories-social-media-purge-2022-5"> social media companies to mitigate online racist conspiracy theories</a> like those espoused by the alleged gunman. "This is spreading like wildfire," Hochul told CNN's "State of the Union" host Dana Bash.John Cohen, a former head of counterterrorism at DHS, also told <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1525839946136834048?s=20&amp;t=pIwXmm-mRNrqWavembd5Aw">ABC 'This Week' host George Stephanopoulos</a> that the gunman's anger was fueled by extremist content found online and there needs to be more to limit its spread. "This is the threat," he said. "Individuals who are spending a lot of time online, they're viewing content that's being placed there by foreign intelligence services, foreign terrorist organizations, domestic violence extremist thought leaders. They use that content as a way to validate their use of violence and they're going out and they're committing mass murder."

Pelosi says America has to balance free speech and security after mass shooting in Buffalo: 'That freedom also carries public safety with it'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Some Republicans have promoted a version of the "<keyword id="13960582" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="replacement-theory" source="Orion">replacement theory</keyword>" that motivated the <keyword id="6432379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo" source="Orion">Buffalo</keyword> shooter.</li><li>Insider and 2 other reporters repeatedly asked McConnell about the theory, but he wouldn't denounce it.</li></ul>Senate Minority Leader <keyword id="11977287" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mitch-mcconnell" source="Orion">Mitch McConnell</keyword> said <keyword id="11893536" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="racism" source="Orion">racism</keyword> in all its forms is "abhorrent" but sidestepped questions about his party's association with the <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/the-great-replacement-an-explainer">so-called replacement theory </a>at his weekly press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday.McConnell was speaking just days after a white man shot and killed 10 people in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo, New York."This horrible episode in Buffalo is a result of a completely deranged young man who ought to suffer as severe as possible penalty under the law," he said when asked whether he has the responsibility to speak out on the theory as a Republican leader. "Racism of any sort is abhorrent in America, it ought to be stood up to by everybody, both Republicans and Democrats, all Americans," McConnell said when pressed further.Insider then asked McConnell whether he believes Democrats are seeking amnesty for undocumented immigrants for the purpose of influencing and changing the electorate and giving themselves a political advantage — a version of the theory promoted by right-wing media outlets and some Republican politicians.But he demurred a third time."What I'm concerned about with regard to the southern border is the relative openness of it," he said, criticizing the Biden administration for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-admin-to-end-title-42-at-border-report-2022-3">lifting Title 42</a>.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526637341867233281">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>On Saturday, 18-year-old white man Payton Gendron opened fire at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo killing 10 people and wounding several others. Gendron is an avowed white nationalist and an <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/the-great-replacement-an-explainer">adherent of replacement theory</a>, according to a 180-page manifesto and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/16/buffalo-shooting-previous-supermarket-confrontation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a compilation of messages</a> written online by someone who identified as Gendron.In the wake of the shooting, Republicans and right-wing media have come under greater scrutiny for promoting watered-down versions of the theory, which posits that white people are being replaced by people of color and that the "white race" faces demographic and cultural extinction.Versions of the theory have been promoted on right-wing outlets like Fox <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> and by Republican members of <keyword id="11893699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="congress" source="Orion">Congress</keyword>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elise-stefanik-buffalo-shooting-comments-immigration-replacement-republican-north-country-2022-5">most notably House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York</a>. Generally, arguments about replacement theory are framed in terms of voter power, with Republicans arguing that Democrats want to use immigration to dilute Republican votes."Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION," a September ad from Stefanik read. "Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington."President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-white-supremacy-poison-great-replacement-theory-buffalo-2022-5">condemned</a> "those who spread the lie for power, political game and for profit" at an event in Buffalo on Tuesday, though he declined to name any particular person or identity.But congressional Democrats have gone further, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-schumer-fox-news-floor-speech-replacement-theory-2022-5">slamming Fox News and Tucker Carlson for spreading the idea</a>, while House Democratic leadership condemned Stefanik by name.

Mitch McConnell condemns racism as 'abhorrent' but sidesteps questions about 'great replacement theory'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Officials said the attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday was racially motivated.</li><li>It marked the latest in a wave of attacks that were linked to the "<keyword id="12369326" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="great-replacement" source="Orion">Great Replacement</keyword>" theory.</li></ul>A gunman opened fire and killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday in what authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting.It was just the latest in a wave of mass shootings that were inspired by a racist theory popular among white supremacists and the far-right.The <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/the-great-replacement-an-explainer?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpv2TBhDoARIsALBnVnkWviVUrRoUFCjaJ7Sly3du6zT_JHJappzlRYH9q4e8wL8ZiMDbCU4aAhMTEALw_wcB">"Great Replacement" theory</a> claims that whites are being replaced in their countries by people of color and that it will result in the extinction of the white race.Following the <a href="https://www.insider.com/upstate-new-york-tops-supermarket-mass-shooting-injuries-fatalities-police-2022-5">Buffalo shooting</a>, officials told media outlets they were investigating a manifesto that belonged to the suspect, <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-murder-2022-5">identified</a> as 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York. Gendron was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty.The manifesto belonging to the suspect contained racist and antisemitic claims, outlined plans to kill Black people, and repeatedly referenced replacement theory and concerns about the elimination of the white race, a federal official confirmed to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/14/nyregion/buffalo-shooting/the-accused-gunmans-racist-manifesto-outlined-a-plan-to-kill-blacks-and-referred-to-replacement-theory?smid=url-copy">The New York Times</a>.According to the manifesto, the location for the shooting was chosen because it had the highest percentage of Black residents near the gunman's home, which was located hours away from the crime scene, authorities said.The manifesto indicated the gunman was inspired by other mass shooters, including Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black church members during a Bible study session in South Carolina in 2015, and Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people at mosques in New Zealand in 2019.The Christchurch mosque attacks were also inspired by the <keyword id="12461274" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-supremacist" source="Orion">white supremacist</keyword> replacement theory, according to the <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/white-supremacist-terrorist-attack-at-mosques-in-new-zealand">Anti-Defamation League</a>.Tarrant's manifesto was called "The Great Replacement" and focused on his concern that white European society would be overrun by immigrants from Muslim and African countries. He said it could result in the "complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people."Later that year, a gunman shot and killed 23 people in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Officials said the suspect, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, had written a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/04/whats-inside-hate-filled-manifesto-linked-el-paso-shooter/">manifesto</a> that praised the Christchurch attacker. The manifesto also cited the "Great Replacement" theory and railed against a "Hispanic invasion" of the US.Two years prior, in 2017, white supremacists participating in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, were captured chanting "You will not replace us" and "Jews will not replace us." At the same rally, James Alex Fields Jr., an avowed white supremacist, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-james-alex-fields-jr-2019-6">drove his car into a group of anti-racism protesters</a>, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.The "Great Replacement" theory was once limited to white supremacists but has become increasingly mainstream, according to the <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/the-great-replacement-an-explainer?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpv2TBhDoARIsALBnVnkWviVUrRoUFCjaJ7Sly3du6zT_JHJappzlRYH9q4e8wL8ZiMDbCU4aAhMTEALw_wcB">ADL</a>.Replacement theory talking points have repeatedly been shared on Fox <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> in recent years, particularly from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-endorses-white-supremacist-replacement-conspiracy-theory-2021-4">primetime host Tucker Carlson</a>.Carlson, one of the most popular voices on the right, has argued Democratic lawmakers are purposefully "importing a brand new electorate" with "more obedient voters from the Third World" intended to "dilute the political power" of Americans.Fox News has said Carlson was not endorsing "white replacement" theory and was instead commenting on , but his segments have been <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/white-supremacists-applaud-tucker-carlsons-promotion-of-replacement-theory">embraced by white supremacists</a>.

The Buffalo mass shooting is just the latest attack connected to a racist but growing theory that says white people are being replaced by people of color

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. Liz Cheney accused House GOP leadership of enabling "white nationalism" and "white supremacy." </li><li>Cheney's comments came after a gunman killed 10 people in a racially-motivated attack in <keyword id="6432379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo" source="Orion">Buffalo</keyword>.</li></ul>Rep. Liz Cheney accused House Republican leadership, of which she was once a member, of perpetuating "white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism" in her most blistering criticism yet of House GOP leaders."History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse," Cheney tweeted. <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"@GOP</a> leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526159124840558592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2022</a></blockquote>Cheney's comments came after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York over the weekend <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/14/nyregion/buffalo-shooting?name=styln-buffalo-shooting&amp;region=TOP_BANNER&amp;block=storyline_menu_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=LegacyCollection&amp;variant=show&amp;is_new=false">where a white gunman killed 10 people and injured three</a> at a grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood of the city. The suspected shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/great-replacement-theory-buffalo-bilbo/">believed to have published a manifesto</a> rife with racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that outlined plans to kill Black people. Authorities are investigating the racially-motivated attack as a hate crime and a possible incidence of domestic terrorism. The manifesto espoused the "Great Replacement" theory<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-mass-shooting-latest-linked-to-great-replacement-theory-2022-5">, which has inspired other racially-motivated mass shootings in recent years.</a> The racist, theory, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/15/buffalo-suspect-great-replacement-theory-conservative-media/">promoted by far-right figures and some in right-wing media</a>, posits that a conspiracy is afoot to "replace" white people with people of color and immigrants. Among those in House leadership, Rep. <keyword id="12948493" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elise-stefanik" source="Orion">Elise Stefanik</keyword> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/15/stefanik-buffalo-replacement/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main">has particularly come under scrutiny</a> for a series of Facebook ads her campaign ran in the fall of 2021.Stefanik, a prominent Republican and a close Trump ally, replaced Cheney as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference in May 2021. That came after Cheney broke with her party over President Donald Trump's involvement in the January 6 Capitol siege."Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION," read one Facebook ad that Stefanik's campaign <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?id=822948598369166">ran from September 17 to September 29, 2021. </a>"Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington," the ad continued. <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwinred.eliseforcongress.com%2Felisestefanik%2Fes_pet_om_fb_elc-ii_di_20210812%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0e2t17QatsbOGu5Bl63cg039lUWx8Wy9LKhMtrYG27v-ghGodX3l7djUQ&amp;h=AT0xP-GzyZdJZO2-e-gM9EO7BtZ3fAJuu1wpaSi58evQmjWZ_b9FCTn6-WK-9vzjGpVW1Z8L9jO15TLHQ9hGsDmbejiG2WvGge89iI9pnOPBuAIUGurOCt2_YzoMB30-nNaf5VLe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?id=847969122749618">Another ad that ran from September 15 to October 5, 2021, read</a>: "Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi are attempting to flood our voter roles with 11 MILLION NEW VOTERS by giving illegal immigrants amnesty."<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwinred.eliseforcongress.com%2Felisestefanik%2Fes_pet_om_fb_elc-ii_di_20210812%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2a6bYURous1aeSk1x0OgszjvXbErvSPRdrxzEcGtf4jLNrc0B3a9O3FHg&amp;h=AT0xP-GzyZdJZO2-e-gM9EO7BtZ3fAJuu1wpaSi58evQmjWZ_b9FCTn6-WK-9vzjGpVW1Z8L9jO15TLHQ9hGsDmbejiG2WvGge89iI9pnOPBuAIUGurOCt2_YzoMB30-nNaf5VLe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"></a>Stefanik's representatives have denied that her comments were connected in any way to racist theories or ideologies. They argued that her campaign account ran Facebook ads specifically in the context of an amendment on the ballot in New York City that November <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/02/new-york-noncitizen-voting-00012970">that granted noncitizen immigrants</a>, like permanent residents, the right to vote in local elections. In the wake of the shooting, Stefanik, who represents a district in upstate New York, said "our nation is heartbroken about the tragic news of the horrific loss of life in Buffalo."'Any implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the Congresswoman is a disgusting new low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and their sycophant stenographers in the media," <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1526163854144716800">her senior adviser Alex DeGrasse said in a statement.</a>"Despite sickening and false reporting, Congressman Stefanik has never advocated for any racist position or made any racist statement," DeGrasse continued. Stefanik also continued to defend herself on Twitter on Monday, including claiming that Democrats want "amnesty." "Democrats desperately want wide open borders and mass amnesty for illegals allowing them to vote," <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1526175619779788802?s=20&amp;t=C6_xB8Ukr1NoGaFMpgJgyA">she wrote on Monday morning.</a> "Like the vast majority of Americans, Republicans want to secure our borders and protect election integrity."The Biden administration's immigration policies have not espoused "wide open borders" or "mass amnesty" for undocumented immigrants. In another Monday morning tweet, <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1526179778172157954?s=20&amp;t=C6_xB8Ukr1NoGaFMpgJgyA">Stefanik wrote</a>: "It is a FACT that DEMOCRATS have been explicitly pushing for amnesty for years - specifically for political and electoral purposes"

Rep. Liz Cheney accuses House Republican leadership of enabling 'white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism' following the Buffalo shooting

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An 18-year-old gunman shot 13 people, killing 10, in a <keyword id="12161856" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mass-shooting" source="Orion">mass shooting</keyword> in Buffalo, <keyword id="11892836" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-york" source="Orion">New York</keyword>.</li><li>Police said the gunman was wearing tactical gear and livestreamed the <keyword id="11922278" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shooting" source="Orion">shooting</keyword>.</li></ul>An 18-year-old white gunman, dressed in tactical gear and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-buffalo-mass-shooting-live-streamed-platform-by-the-gunman-2022-5">livestreaming on Twitch</a>, opened fire on customers and employees at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday and fatally shot 10 people in what authorities described as a racially motivated mass shooting.The shooting suspect, Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, had driven hours to reach the predominantly Black community in upstate New York, law enforcement officials told media.As of Saturday night, authorities were investigating a hate-filled, racist manifesto that purported to explain the motive behind the alleged massacre. The shooting suspect was arrested at the scene and <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-charged-with-first-degree-murder-2022-5">arraigned that same day on a charge of first-degree murder</a>. He appeared in court dressed in a white paper gown and wearing a white face mask, and pleaded not guilty to the charge.The man spoke briefly several times in court, answering "yes sir" and "I understand my charges" when asked by the judge.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Erie <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> Now (@ErieNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1525644688270807040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2022</a></blockquote>Local and federal officials were quick to label the shooting as racially motivated. The FBI announced at a press conference it will investigate the incident as both a hate <keyword id="11893298" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crime" source="Orion">crime</keyword> and "racially motivated violent extremism."New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the shooting an act of "white supremacist terrorism."The massacre began shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, when the gunman arrived in the parking lot of a Tops supermarket and began shooting people in the parking lot before entering the store, authorities said.Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told reporters that 10 people were killed and three injured in the shooting. Of those 13, 11 were Black and two were white. Four were employees of the store while nine were customers, he said. Authorities had not released the identities or ages of the victims as of Saturday evening.Gramaglia offered high praise to one of the victims, a "beloved" Tops security guard and retired Buffalo police officer, who Gramaglia said engaged the gunman and fired multiple shots. Due to the gunman's heavy body armor, none of the shots deterred the gunman, who fatally shot the guard, Gramaglia said. The guard was "a hero in our eyes," he added.Eventually, when Buffalo police officers arrived, the gunman "put the gun to his own neck," Gramaglia said. Officers talked the suspect into dropping the gun and removing some tactical gear before he surrendered. <h2>The gunman used a 'legally obtained weapon, but it was illegally modified'</h2>The suspect is due to appear at a felony hearing on May 19, according to Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who added the first-degree murder charge carries a potential penalty of life in prison without parole.Flynn said his office is investigating the racial aspect to the alleged crime, but in the meantime, the shooting suspect is being held without bail."We have taken the appropriate steps right now to get him behind bars," Flynn said at a press conference.New York leaders were quick to condemn the mass shooting, denouncing the racism and hatred that apparently provoked the attack."This is a community where people love each other. The shooter was not from this community," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told reporters at the press conference. "In fact, the shooter traveled from hours outside this community to perpetrate this crime on Buffalo."Gov. Hochul used the opportunity to announce a "comprehensive gun package to address further loopholes that exist in our laws."Authorities have not detailed the exact type of gun the suspect used, but Hochul said Saturday evening the shooter had used "a legally obtained weapon, but it was illegally modified." She did not elaborate on the weapon's modification."Nine states, as well as NYPD, have teamed up with us to make sure that we can identify when guns are coming across the border from places like Pennsylvania gun shows and ending up in small communities outside Binghamton or in Broome County," Hochul said. "We don't know that that is the source of the modifications made to a gun, but we're going to find out and we're going to continue addressing this every single way we can."

10 people shot dead in Buffalo supermarket, authorities say the mass shooting was racially motivated

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="13938559" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo-shooting" source="Orion">Buffalo shooting</keyword> suspect appeared to post a document rife with racist conspiracy theories. </li><li>The white nationalist 'replacement theory' cited in the screed is tied to numerous mass killings.</li></ul>The suspect in Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo appeared to post a racist document online rife with conspiracies before he killed 10 people at a supermarket. In the document, he heavily referenced the white nationalist "replacement theory" conspiracy, which has been linked to multiple far-right terror attacks and has in recent years been featured in right wing <keyword id="11894119" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="media" source="Orion">media</keyword>.The "<a href="https://www.insider.com/tucker-carlson-replacement-theory-david-duke-kkk-trump-2021-10">great replacement</a>" theory refers to the set of white nationalist beliefs that immigration, specifically of non-white immigrants, is a leftist attempt to replace the white population in Europe and North America.The conspiracy theory, which has roots in France and also targets Jewish people, has become a common far-right ideology and has been connected to multiple mass shootings carried out by white supremacists, including the 2018 <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18037580/pittsburgh-shooter-anti-semitism-racist-jewish-caravan">Pittsburgh synagogue shooting</a>, 2019 mosque shootings in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-zealand-bans-christchurch-shooter-manifesto-livestream-2019-3">Christchurch, New Zealand</a>, and the 2019 shooting at a Walmart in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/06/christchurch-endures-extremist-touchstone-investigators-probe-suspected-el-paso-manifesto/">El Paso, Texas</a>. Although the Buffalo attack is still under investigation, the references to replacement theory in the document and its echoes in right wing media show how a racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy has been mainstreamed. Its central ideas are now promoted not just by violent extremists, but by right wing media personalities like <keyword id="11937547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fox-news" source="Orion">Fox News</keyword> host <keyword id="12002687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tucker-carlson" source="Orion">Tucker Carlson</keyword>. "I mean, this is really ugly stuff, and it's really extremely similar to what is in this guy's manifest," said Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at <keyword id="13951547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="media-matters-for-america" source="Orion">Media Matters for America</keyword>, a nonprofit media watchdog that has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-fully-embraced-white-supremacist-replacement-theory-and-fox-personalities">tracked the spread of replacement theory on Fox News</a>. A representative for Fox <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> declined to comment, pointing instead to Carlson's past comments denouncing political violence.A <a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/immigration-attitudes-and-conspiratorial-thinkers/">nationwide study</a> from The Associated Press-NORC Center released this month found that people who supported ideas central to the white supremacist conspiracy theory were far more likely to be viewers of Fox News and the far-right networks OANN and Newsmax than other news outlets.Carlson has promoted ideas related to the "great replacement" theory on air multiple times. In <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-s-great-replacement-fox-news-segment-uses-newer-ncna1263880">April 2021</a>, he said the "Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate" with "more obedient voters from the Third World." In September, Carlson said <a href="https://www.insider.com/tucker-carlson-replacement-theory-david-duke-kkk-trump-2021-10">during a segment</a> that President Joe Biden is trying to "change the racial mix of the country" and "reduce the political power of the people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the population of Americans newly arrived from the third world.""This policy is called the great replacement," Carlson said during the segment.According to a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-tonight.html?chapter=3">investigation by The New York Times</a>, Carlson amplified the theory during more than 400 episodes of his Fox News show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," which was the second-highest rated cable news show in the US in the first quarter of this year, according to <a href="https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/here-are-the-top-rated-cable-news-shows-for-q1-22/504337/#:~:text=That's%20no%20small%20feat%20for,roughly%203.2%20million%20total%20viewers.">Adweek</a>. The clips mentioning the theory totaled more than 50 hours, according to the Times' investigation. Other high-profile Republicans have also touted the theory, including New York Rep. <keyword id="12948493" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elise-stefanik" source="Orion">Elise Stefanik</keyword>, the chair of the House Republican Conference. While Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House, has not mentioned the theory by name, she pushed replacement theory in a series of advertisements on Facebook in September last year."Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington," the advertisements said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/15/stefanik-buffalo-replacement/">The Washington Post</a>. Florida GOP Rep. <keyword id="11923746" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matt-gaetz" source="Orion">Matt Gaetz</keyword> has also supported the replacement theory, <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1441807874053885952">tweeting in September last year</a> that Carlson was "CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America." There's no indication the Buffalo shooting suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, was directly inspired by Fox News or right-wing personalities. Researchers, authorities and journalists are still examining his path to radicalization, and he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/tech/4chan-buffalo-shooting/index.html">appears to have frequented far-right forums</a>, such as 4chan. But there is a growing overlap between the rhetoric and views shared in these online backwaters and mainstream right-wing media and <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>."Avowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis love Tucker Carlson's show because they say that he is mainstreaming their ideas and that he is providing them with a gloss of respectability that allows the sorts of conspiracy theories that were previously limited to the fringe to spread on America's largest cable news network to millions and millions of people," Gertz, the Media Matters senior fellow, said. "They are overjoyed with what he's done for their movement."The AP-NORC poll, conducted toward the end of 2021, found that 17% of the total 4,173 American respondents said they believed in ideas about immigrants being brought into the US as part of a political plot. Of those people, 45% of them said they preferred watching OANN or Newsmax, 37% said Fox News, and only 13% and 11% of them said they were CNN and MSNBC viewers, respectively.The study also found that almost half of the Republican respondents said they supported at least part of the baseless idea—that people are trying to replace "native-born" Americans with immigrants "who agree with their political views," as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/nearly-half-republicans-agree-with-great-replacement-theory/">The Washington Post</a> first reported.Those killed in the Saturday <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/buffalo-shooting-victims-what-we-know/index.html">shooting ranged from 32 to 86 years old</a>, authorities said. In total, 13 people were shot, 11 of whom were Black, according to police. All of those who died were Black."There's nothing we can do that's going to take away the hurt, take away these tears, take away the pain, take away the hole in our hearts. Because part of us is gone," said Garnell Whitfield, the son of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, who was killed in the shooting."For her to be taken from us and taken from this world by someone that's just full of hate for no reason… it is very hard for us to handle right now," he told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/relatives-buffalo-shooting-victim-ruth-whitfield-break-tears/story?id=84752163">ABC News</a>.

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Biden calls white supremacy 'a poison' and slams those who 'profit' off the racist great replacement theory during remarks in Buffalo

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Mitch McConnell condemns racism as 'abhorrent' but sidesteps questions about 'great replacement theory'

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The Buffalo mass shooting is just the latest attack connected to a racist but growing theory that says white people are being replaced by people of color

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Rep. Liz Cheney accuses House Republican leadership of enabling 'white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism' following the Buffalo shooting

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10 people shot dead in Buffalo supermarket, authorities say the mass shooting was racially motivated

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