The
white genocide,
white extinction,
[1][2][3][4][5] or
white replacement conspiracy theory[6][7][8] is a
white supremacist[9][10][11][12] belief that there is a deliberate plot, often
blamed on Jews,
[9][12] to promote
miscegenation, mass non-white immigration,
racial integration,
low fertility rates,
abortion, governmental land-
confiscation from whites, organised
violence,
[13] and
eliminationism in supposedly
white-founded countries[9] in order to cause the
extinction of
whites through
forced assimilation[13] and violent
genocide.
[14][15][16][17] Less frequently, blacks,
[18] Hispanics,
[19] and Muslims
[20] are blamed, but merely as more fertile immigrants,
[21] invaders,
[22] or violent aggressors,
[23] rather than masterminds of a secret plot.
[24]
White genocide is a
myth,
[25][26] based on
pseudoscience,
pseudohistory, and hatred,
[27] driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.
[28][19] There is no evidence that white people are dying out or that they will die out, or that anyone is trying to exterminate them as a race.
[29][30][31][32] The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to scare white people,
[29] and justify a commitment to a
white nationalist agenda
[33] in support of increasingly successful calls to violence.
[25][23][22] Proponents have killed hundreds and injured several hundred more since 2011.
The theory was popularized by white supremacist,
neo-Nazi, and convicted felon
David Lane around 1995, and has been leveraged as
propaganda in Europe, North America, South Africa, and Australia. Similar conspiracy theories were prevalent in
Nazi Germany[34] and have been used in present-day interchangeably with,
[35] and as a broader and more extreme version of,
Renaud Camus's 2012
The Great Replacement, focusing on the white Christian population of France.
[36][37] Since the 2019
Christchurch and
El Paso shootings, of which the shooters' manifestos decried a "white replacement" and have named
The Great Replacement; author
Bat Ye'or's 2002
Eurabia concept,
[38] Camus's 2012 Great Replacement fallacy (often called replacement theory or population replacement),
[39] and
Gerd Honsik's resurgent 1970s myth of a
Kalergi plan,
[35] have all been used synonymously with "white genocide" and are increasingly referred to as variations of the conspiracy theory.
White genocide conspiracy theory - Wikipedia