Even though the attack happened on the other side of the world, the man who carried it out declared that he started his planning after a trip to France — inspired by ideas that have filtered into right-wing discourse across the European Union
Demographers have dismissed the great replacement idea as racist and non-scientific. Yet the basic notion, which has its roots in racial science from the 1930s and anti-Semitic writing from the Nazi era, remains attractive to some thanks to its deceptive simplicity.
That sort of language echoed the tenor of far-right campaigning in 2017. While French far-right leader Marine Le Pen rejected the great replacement as a"conspiracy theory" in public, some of her allies, including her niece, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, were less categorical. A year before the election, the younger Le Pen attended a gathering at which Camus was the star guest, and she frequently touted the idea that France was at risk of losing its Christian identity to foreigners.
For political scientist Jean-Yves Camus , Tarrant is first and foremost a hardcore white supremacist, as suggested by his embrace of the 14-word pledge: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” A vision of the world that proclaims white or Aryan people to be superior to other groups is more extreme than the ideas of Le Pen or even Camus, and spoke to the killer's radicalization in dark corners of the web, said the analyst.
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