White genocide

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For the Armenian term, see White Genocide (Armenians). For the conspiracy theory, see White genocide conspiracy theory.

The term white genocide refers to actions committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the white race. The Genocide Convention adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 named five particular actions that fit the definition of genocide. Accusations of white genocide primarily focus on definition (c): "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." Arguments citing this definition of genocide point to the forced assimilation of non-white immigrants in white countries, which lowers the white birth rate because of increased miscegenation, financial burdens, physical danger, and alienation.

Meaning

What is referred to by some as white genocide has been described as a "soft genocide". Unlike most recorded genocides, it is claimed to be accomplished not with violence, but through a slow population replacement process, that includes massive immigration of non-white peoples into previously white-occupied lands. It might even be accomplished through a type of voluntary extinction movement. Most proponents of white genocide do not endorse active extermination of white people.

It would also not be a complete genocide, even if, in some future year, there are no white people anymore. Some or most genes of white people would survive in their multiracial descendants. However, it has been argued that these descendants will be less competent or intelligent than the white people of today (though it is impossible to predict the outcome of evolution over time). Far-right criticism of miscegenation is centered on the theory that white genes have co-evolved over several millennia, and would become less effective if mixed with the genes from other racial groups.

White genocide theories

White genocide was anticipated by early 20th-century eugenics theories popular in British colonies where it was feared that the majority non-white races would eventually supplant the white ones.

Madison Grant

In 1916, the American eugenicist and lawyer Madison Grant wrote a book entitled The Passing of the Great Race, which, while largely ignored when it first appeared, went through four editions and became a part of popular culture in 1920s America. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald made a lightly disguised reference to Grant in The Great Gatsby, in which the character Tom Buchanan was reading a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires by "this man Goddard", a combination of Grant and his colleague Lothrop Stoddard. (Grant wrote the introduction to Stoddard's book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy.) "Everybody ought to read it", Buchanan explained. Adolf Hitler wrote to Grant to thank him for writing the book, calling it "my Bible."

A 1925 book by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi entitled Praktischer Idealismus (practical idealism) has been widely cited throughout the 20th century. It includes this passage:

The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.

A 1966 edition of the liberal American The Reporter magazine described Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith as having convinced white Rhodesians that their only alternative to his government's Rhodesian Bush War was "dictatorship and white genocide" by communist-backed black nationalist guerrillas. These predictions essentially came true by the twenty-first century.

Pro-white activism

The term "white genocide" appeared sporadically in the American Nazi Party's White Power newspaper as early as 1972 and WAR in the 1970s and 1980s, where it primarily referred to contraception and abortion. The wider white genocide demographic theory was further developed by the former Ku Klux Klan member David Lane in his White Genocide Manifesto (c. 1995, origin of the later use of the term), where he sought to prove that the government policies of many Western countries had the intent of destroying white European culture and making white people an "extinct species". Lane, a founding member of the organization The Order, criticized miscegenation, abortion, homosexuality, the legal repercussions against those who "resist genocide", and the "Zionist Occupation Government" that he said controls the United States and the other majority-white countries and which encourages "white genocide".

Alt-right

In the first decade of the 21st century, white genocide was studied by the newer alt-right movement, which partially emerged from the earlier white power movement.

Anders Behring Breivik's entitled manifesto, 2083: A Declaration of Independence makes frequent mention of an ongoing slow genocide against white Europeans.

Discussion threads on the white nationalist Internet forum Stormfront often center around the theme of white people being subjected to genocidal policies by their governments. The concept has also been popularized by the alt-right and alt-lite movements in the United States. The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, referenced the white genocide theory as protestors yelled "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!"

While individual iterations of the white genocide theory vary on who is assigned blame, Jewish influence, people who hate whites, and liberal political forces are commonly cited by white nationalists as being the main factors leading to a white genocide. This view is held by prominent figures such as David Duke, who cites Jews and "liberal political ideals" as the main causes. Robert Whitaker, who coined the phrase "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white" in a widely circulated 2006 piece about white genocide, used "anti-White" to describe those responsible for the genocide of white people, and continued to view it as a partially Jewish conspiracy. However, the view that Jews are responsible for a white genocide is contested by other pro-white figures, such as Jared Taylor.

The Great Replacement

Further information: The Great Replacement

The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement) is a white nationalist political term for the effort to study how the white Catholic French population, and white Christian European population at large, is being progressively replaced by non-European people, specifically Arab/Berber Middle Eastern, North African and Sub-Saharan African populations, through mass migration and demographic growth. The term was popularized by Renaud Camus in his 2012 book The Great Replacement (French: Le Grand Remplacement). It specifically associated the presence of Muslims in France with potential danger and destruction of French culture and civilization.

The opponents of these demographic trends attribute this process to intentional policies advanced by global and liberal elites from within the French Government and the European Union, specifically members of what they unofficially call the Shadow Party. The perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings is said to have been heavily influenced by this process, and named his manifesto The Great Replacement. The term itself has become increasingly problematic as a result, and commonly dismissed as a conspiracy theory for this reason, with proponents often being accused of racism.

Proponents of white genocide

Academics

In the September-October 2002 publication of Harvard Magazine, professor Noel Ignatiev wrote, "The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists." Later in the article, Ignatiev wrote, "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed—not 'deconstructed' but destroyed." Following Ignatiev's death in 2019, University of California professor Mark LeVine, in analyzing his "anti-racist" writings on the white race, concurred that "abolishing whiteness has never been more urgent", openly supporting Ignatiev’s position in the "condemnation of an irredeemable whiteness and the identities that flow from it" with a simple quote: “As long as you think you’re white, there’s no hope for you.”.

On 14 October 2005, Afrocentrist professor Kamau Kambon of North Carolina State University told a panel, "We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet." He added that "we are at war."

In 2015, Bahar Mustafa, a representative for Goldsmiths Students' Union, attracted attention in response to a series of controversial tweets, one of which included the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen and another of which called another student "white trash".

On 25 June 2015, Adam Kotsko of Shimer College tweeted, "Whether or not your individual ancestors owned slaves, you as a white person have benefited from slavery and are complicit in it." And, what follows from this claim is, "We should commit mass suicide."

George Ciccariello-Maher

On 24 December 2016, Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher, a self-described communist, tweeted, "All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide." The next morning, Ciccariello-Maher tweeted, "To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a good thing indeed."

In 2019, Priyamvada Gopal, a professor at Cambridge University, attracted attention when she tweeted, "I resist urges to kneecap white men every day. So no, **I** am the hero." On 22 June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd riots, she tweeted "I'll say it again. White Lives Don't Matter."

In April 2021, Dr. Aruna Khilanani, a New York City psychiatrist, told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine that she had fantasies of "unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way."

Journalists

Some Sarah Jeong tweets from 2014.

On 25 August 2008, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a Ugandan-born British journalist, stated that: "I don't like [white men]. I want them to be a lost species in a hundred years."

In an October 2013 publication, Lise Funderburg of National Geographic wrote an article titled, "The Changing Face of America." In the article, Funderburg claims that "geneticists have demonstrated that race is biologically not a reality." The article was also notable for Martin Schoeller's photographs of mixed race people, which complemented Funderburg's point that "we may be a pluralist nation by 2060, when the Census Bureau predicts that non-Hispanic whites will no longer be the majority."

On 16 August 2014, Sarah Jeong, a Korean-American journalist, tweeted: "White people have stopped breeding. You'll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along."

On 22 December 2015, Frank Joyce wrote a Salon article titled, "White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it." The article advocates "replacing white supremacy with new values."

On 25 January 2016, David Rothkopf of ForeignPolicy.com wrote, "In Europe alone, the influx of migrants and refugees is already producing irreversible demographic shifts—a great blending of cultures." Turning to America, Rothkopf concludes, "Diversity is not the threat. It is the answer. That is, in fact, what has made America and every diverse society great. To be sure, we should not—not for one minute—lament the passing of the white-male era, for there is at least a glimmer of hope that soon to come is the era of 'all.'"

On 17 March 2021, Damon Young, a writer for The New York Times, wrote an article in The Root, in which he stated that:

Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white …White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.

On 12 August 2021, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post tweeted “A more diverse, more inclusive society. This is fabulous news. now we need to prevent minority White rule.”

Political figures

Robert Mugabe, the first President of Zimbabwe, was known for expressing black supremacist views, including hostility towards the country's previously dominant white minority. Since the collapse of white-ruled Rhodesia in 1979, the white minority population has declined in numbers, partially (though not entirely) motivated by racially-motivated violence. A near-identical fate has also occurred in post-apartheid South Africa.

The Spring 1999 publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report quotes NATO general Wesley Clark as saying: "There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th-century idea and we are trying to transition it into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states."

In 2007, Tom Hayden, one of the co-founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), made news for his speech at the wedding of his son Troy Garity, where, as Hilton Als wrote in The New Yorker, he "said that he was especially happy about his son's union with actress Simone Bent, who is black, because, among other things, it was 'another step in a long-term goal of mine: the peaceful, nonviolent disappearance of the white race.'"

In 2010, Barbara Lerner Spectre, a Zionist activist, controversially stated to the Israel Broadcasting Authority that: "I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive." Due to an inevitable backlash, and especially in association with the 2015 European migrant crisis, the Israel Broadcasting Authority has since tried to remove the video from websites such as YouTube.

On 17 February 2015, the then-Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, speaking at a summit, stated, "Folks like me who are Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017 [sic], we’ll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolutely minority. Fewer than 50 percent of the people in America, from then and on, will be white European stock. That’s not a bad thing. That’s a source of our strength." Since becoming the 46th President of the United States in 2021, Biden has been further accused by critics of abetting white genocide with the Taliban's reclamation of Afghanistan and the subsequent refugee crisis. His actions were even criticized by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who himself has also been accused of such with his Labour government's immigration reform of 2004.

Non-political figures

On 7 September 2016, American science fiction writer John Scalzi tweeted that: “Those concerned about the “extinction” of the white race are the best argument for its demise.”

In 2019, David Zimmerman, a former truck driver, stated on Quora that:

A quick scan confirmed what I thought. The Browning of America refers to the population statistics of the USA in relation to people with brown skin no longer being a minority while people of white skin no longer being a majority.

Personally, I think this is a great thing. A lot of the increase in darker skin tones is due to intermarriage between white and brown skinned people. The children tend to be beautiful. There is also a general trend for fewer white children to be born while brown skinned children being born have not declined in numbers.

There are of course implications in politics. The Republican base relies heavily on middle class white skinned voters.

It should be interesting to see how it plays out over the remainder of my lifetime. I expect there to be quite a bit of thrashing about as the decaying corpse of USA racism finally gets a stake driven into it's rotting heart.

See also

• Black genocide
• Criticism of multiculturalism
• Genocide
• White nationalism
• Population replacement
• Ethnic cleansing