Opinion: How to defeat the cretinous theory at the heart of the Christchurch attack

Shane Burley
7 min readMar 18, 2019

“You will not replace us, Jews will not replace us.”

This was the somewhat confusing chant from Charlottesville that echoed in news reports from the far-right march in August 2017. We have now seen its most recent manifestation in the Christchurch mosque massacre. The murderous potential of such “replacement” conspiracy…

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Shane Burley

Filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, etc. @Shane_Burley1