By now you’ve probably heard of the Buffalo shooting, where a gunman suspected to be Payton Grendon killed 10 people in a grocery store of a predominantly Black neighbourhood in New York. What the media isn’t talking about though, is Australia’s role in radicalising Grendon into right-wing extremism.
Before Grendon carried out his attack, it’s reported he posted a 180-page manifesto on 4Chan that detailed his belief in the “great replacement theory”: a racist conspiracy that claims there’s a sinister plot by people of colour to replace white people with immigrants. It’s based on what neo-nazis call “white genocide”.
