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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting

Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson has arguably done more than anyone in the US to popularize the racist conspiracy.
Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

As details of the Buffalo mass shooting emerged over the weekend, much of the media focussed on the shooter’s self-stated motivation: his belief in “great replacement” theory, the racist notion that white Americans are being deliberately replaced through immigration.

Over at Fox News, however, there was barely any mention of the white gunman’s alleged reasoning for opening fire at a supermarket, killing 10 people and wounding three more, in a predominantly Black area.

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