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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jason Stanley

Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech’s real great replacement

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‘The fear that white workers will be replaced by non-white workers is masking the reality that all workers are being replaced by non-human workers.’ Photograph: Posed by model; d3sign/Getty Images

Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as the political foundation for fascism. Some of its fundamental tenets, such as the view that “whites are a dying minority”, have been amplified by tech billionaires and their platforms.

According to the version of this theory most employed in Europe and the United States, white replacement theory, white populations are being “replaced” by non-white populations, a replacement engineered by a shadowy global elite. For example, the need for skilled labor is supposedly being used by global elites as an excuse to bring in non-white immigrants to replace white workers.

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