EXPLAINER: White ‘replacement theory’ fuels racist attacks
1 min readPhoto caption: A person pays his respects outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo credit: AP Photo / Matt Rourke. Article by David Bauder. AP News – May 15, 2022.
NEW YORK (AP) — A racist ideology seeping from the internet’s fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Most of the victims were Black. Ideas from the “great replacement theory” filled a racist screed supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old accused of targeting […]