The buffalo shooter who shot and killed 10 individuals in a supermarket, in buffalo.
All of them African Americans and he also injured three others.
He left a manifesto that made it clear, that he intended to drive 200 miles,
away from the town that he lives in, in order to carry out this violent act.
And he made it clear that he's doing it, because he believes that minorities and
black people are here to replace white people like him, and
he needs to do something about it.
And so there's a lot that you might see online with right wingers trying to
provide cover for this guy.
But I wanna make sure you don't fall victim to their disinformation,
cuz I read all 180 pages of his manifesto, and
I wanna share some of the, excerpts from it.
I thought this part was telling, he wrote, quote,
I started browsing four Chan in May of 2020, after extreme boredom.
Remember this was during the outbreak of Covid,
there I learned through infographics, and memes that the white race is dying out,
and that the Jews and the elite were behind this.
Okay, so let's pause for a second.
You can find, it's archive but you can find his social media
posts prior to getting radicalized by these message boards online,
and he was by all accounts, a normal guy, a normal kid.
Okay, took Covid seriously, in one reply on twitter, he asked someone like
why would you even risk someone else's life by not following the guidelines.
I'm paraphrasing but he's essentially saying stuff like that.
I give you those details, because it shows you just how quickly,
a seemingly normal individual, can be rapidly radicalized,
by these platforms, by these message boards, places like four Chan.
But let me give you more details on what he said his intentions were he did this
portion of the manifesto where he answers questions that people might have about his
motives and why he carried out this violent act.
Why did you decide to carry out the attack?
I carried out the attack to show, to the replaces that as long as the white
man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.
To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands, by intimidating and
physically removing the replaces themselves.
To intimidate the replaces already living on our lands to emigrate back
to their home countries.
Let me read one more graphic, he also says his intentions are to agitate,
the political enemies of my people into action.
To cause them to overextend their own hand and
experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.
To incite violence, retaliation and further divide between the European people
and the replaces currently occupying European soil.
Let's just note, how, I mean the guy he he mentions
native Americans briefly in the manifesto.
But his argument is, yeah, but white people have been here for
a long time and so as a result, this is a white country,
there should be a white, this belongs to us.
So totally, excusing what white settlers did in America that the brutality,
the barbarism, toward native Americans, not a big deal, right?
It's okay when were the replace us, and we've been here for so
long that this is our land that's the kind of mentality he had and
it's the garbage that he reads on these message boards.
>> Yeah, so for, guys the scariest part of this is now,
nearly half of Republican voters say that they believe in great replacements.
So it's some strongly believe in it, others somewhat believe in it.
Well, the Jews are somewhat replacing us with Latinos and blacks,
goes the theory, right?
By the way I say the Jews, because not only did he talk about it
is manifest over and over, it is a connecting theme in all of these shooters.
So the Pittsburgh shooter, that shot up a synagogue,
also talked about how the Jews, were replacing white people in the country.
And this goes all the way back of course to the Nazis,
who chanted the Jews will not replace us.
Yes, that's the chant that they then chanted in Charlottesville,
the Nazi right wing here in America.
And so it all connects and it is all connected to the great replacement theory,
in fact this particular shooter in buffalo.
Explaining his manifesto, he said that almost the same exact thing,
that the shooter in Christchurch new Zealand did,
remember that mass shooting where they, he killed dozens of Muslims.
He blamed the puppet masters being Angela Merkel, at the time,
the leader of Germany.
This guy took out Merkel and put in George Soros, the same exact words except for
sorrows, the Jewish puppet master that is looking to replace us.
One of the questions that I have is, replace us for what?
And nobody ever talks about that, and
a lot of Republicans because now tons of Republicans including the number three
Republican in the house at least Stefanik are defending the replacement theory.
But what are you guys worried is going to be replaced?
So if you said to me, somebody's gonna replace you and say where,
to do what right?
The assumption is, they're gonna replace us, in having power in this country.
And so Ana, I just wanna point out the super obvious,
because right wing media will defend the replacement theory.
And mainstream media will go, I can't tell anything,
I don't know anything about news alcohol 50,50, they'll be outraged at this, right?
But when you say it's obviously racist, the great replacement theory, a lot of
them will get skittish cuz now nearly half of Republicans believe it, right?
And guys, if you say only white people should hold power and
my God, the Latinos are the black people or Jews etc.
Are going to replace us in having power, that is by definition racist.
>> But do you know why?
They think that's a bad thing other than, they believed that they would lose power.
They're concerned, that once they're the minority, in terms of numbers, obviously,
well then people of color are gonna be as vicious to us as we've been to them.
>> Yeah, 100%, Anna, and we've talked about on the show before, but
I wanna make a very important clarification.
Its projection, because left wing white people don't think,
My God, what if a Latino were to replace me in power?
They don't think that at all, they think, well, what difference does it make?
Okay, I was a councilman, and now, that black lady over there is a counselor,
what difference does it make, right?
But because they actually believe in equality, but white right wingers,
they think, no, I love oppressing you.
And I assume that having power means, I get to oppress you and
you can't do a goddamn thing about it, and I love feeling acting superior to you.
And so, they assume,
that when minorities get the power that they're going to do the same to them?
Well, good news for you, evil right wingers,
we're not anywhere near as evil as you guys.
In fact were not at all evil, in fact we want you to be equal to everyone else.
But I know that's the thing that bothers you the most.
That's the whole point of great replacement theory,
they don't want to be equal.
>> A few more things I wanna mention from his manifesto before we wrap this up.
He also in the Q and A portion of his manifesto, asks,
was the attack, anti immigration in origin.
And he says, yes, beyond all doubt, anti immigration,
anti ethnic replacement and anti cultural replacement.
By the way, if I recall correctly, the right wing loves to
talk about how black people are allegedly culturally violent.
It's an interesting accusation to make when most of the mass shooters in this
country have been young white males.
Now do I think that this is a cultural characteristic of white people in America?
No, I don't think that, but I do think that it's fascinating,
that we see projection, among right wingers in like every facet of life.
Whether it has to do with sexual identity, whether it has to do with projections on
violence, it's just you see it happen and play out over and over again.
He also justifies, by the way killing children,
I wanna go to the last graphic here.
Because it gives you an idea of how depraved and disgusting this person is,
children of replace ear's because he asks, is it okay to kill Children?
Like why are we killing children, they're innocent?
He says, children of replace ear's do not stay children, they become adults and
reproduce, creating more replaces to replace your people.
They grow up and vote against your people's own wishes, for
the interests of their own people and identity.
They grow up and take the potential homes of your people, for
themselves they occupy positions of power, remove wealth and destroy social trust.
Just an unbelievable way of thinking, and look, I think all of what
we're experiencing politically in the country right now is intertwined.
Because which political group, is taking freedom and liberty away from women,
by not allowing them to make medical decisions about their own bodies.
It's the right wing, which as Jake mentioned earlier is now dominated by this
ideology, where you have more than half of Republican voters believing
in this nonsense conspiracy theory of white replacement.
And so I think that the plan here, is to purge the country in their minds.
I mean, it's a ridiculous notion, but in their minds, purge the country of anyone
who's not white and then basically force white women, to reproduce ,right?
To bulk up the numbers of white people in America.
>> Yeah, and have white men be completely in charge, like they would say,
the good old days when we had slaves.
And women couldn't vote and they were chattel to be used in our households, and
no other minority had rights at all.
And we would bar people like Asians, it goes on and on.
And so look, does white culture in America have a problem with violence?
No, I think that's too broad, problem with racism,
obviously this country has a problem with racism overall.
But if you get more specific, and ideological ,and not based on race,
does the right way in this country have a history of racism?
Well not just a history, right now, there's no question about it.
They celebrate racism all the time, their whole cry about freedom
of speech we have disproven in hundreds of times on this show.
They do not wanna protect any other speech other than racist speech.
Do they have a culture in the right wing in this country of violence?
Hell yeah, they do, the overwhelming celebration of violence.
And now, 40% of Republicans say, that it might be time for political violence.
Hey, 40% of Republicans, congratulations, you got the violence you were looking for.
Are you happy now?
I'm pretty sure they are.
>> They've been craving a race war and like, I have no doubt in my mind,
that there are right wingers in this country who saw that mass shooting and
thought this is exactly what needs to happen.
And by the way, let's just be clear about one other thing, this is not a lone wolf.
Okay, let's stop pretending like, this is a one off, no,
we don't have a problem in the country.
We absolutely do have a problem, this isn't just something that permeates or
exists in the dark corners of the internet.
This is something that has become mainstream this ideology,
through programming over at Fox news.
Through the campaigning that we see from Elise Stefanik,
Republican lawmaker from New York,
Matt Gates will provide all those receipts on the show in a little bit.
But this is a problem, it is an identity, it's part of America's identity,
it's part of our history.
When you really look at the prevalence of right wing extremism in America,
the violence against people of color in America.
We've got to be real about that, and we got to be real about how people
are getting radicalized and have a real conversation about how to mitigate that.
Otherwise, we're just gonna keep running around in the same circle over and
over and over again.
And I'm afraid,
that's exactly what's gonna happen in the aftermath of this tragic event