Racist Conspiracy Theories Move From Fringes to Mainstream Society

May 18, 2022

Archived 4 years ago from Health News Hub
Racist Conspiracy Theories Move From Fringes to Mainstream Society

The gunman who shot and killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket subscribed to the “great replacement theory,” a racist ideology that suggests there is a plot to reduce the influence of white people. While some still believe these hate-ridden diatribes only exist in the dark reaches of the …

Conspiracy

May 18, 2022 5g, deep state, qanon, ukraine

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Why do so many people believe conspiracy theories?

Placeholder while article actions load Ten Black Americans were allegedly killed at a supermarket in Buffalo by a White gunman who promoted a racist conspiracy theory. A congressional candidate who supports QAnon has won a Republican primary. Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary candidate Kathy Barnette …

Will a Weaponized Bird Flu Become the Next Pandemic?

Conspiracy

May 18, 2022 bill gates, china, fauci, great reset, ukraine

Archived 4 years ago from Based Underground
Will a Weaponized Bird Flu Become the Next Pandemic?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE As news of the COVID pandemic winds down around the world, we’re suddenly seeing warnings of another pandemic brewing — bird flu, aka avian influenza (H5N1) Natural bird flu is notoriously harmless to humans, but Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci have, for many years, funded …

Conspiracy

May 18, 2022 5g, bill gates, cdc, fauci

Archived 4 years ago from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As avian influenza spreads in birds, conspiracy theories about the disease infect the internet

Chicks hatch from their eggs. Credit: Otwarte Klatki/Andrew Skowron. CC BY 2.0. As H5N1 avian influenza spreads in birds around the United States and elsewhere, causing farmers to cull tens of millions of chickens and other farmed birds, baseless conspiracy theories about the severity of the bird …

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May 18, 2022 marjorie taylor greene

Archived 4 years ago from Al Jazeera
Great Replacement: The conspiracy theory stoking racist violence

It has been linked to mass shootings in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand; right-wing politicians and media figures have parroted its ideas, and experts say it is becoming increasingly mainstream. And this week, US President Joe Biden explicitly denounced the so-called “great replacement” …

Conspiracy

May 17, 2022

Archived 4 years ago from Variety
Chuck Schumer Demands Fox News Stop Amplifying ‘Far-Right Conspiracy Theories’ Following Buffalo Shooting

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has demanded that Fox News “cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far-right conspiracy theories” in a letter sent to the network’s leaders and owner Rupert Murdoch. In the document, published by The New York Times on Tuesday, Schumer cites an …

Buffalo shooting puts replacement theory and GOP rhetoric in the spotlight. I’m quitting the party.

Conspiracy

May 17, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from NBC News
Buffalo shooting puts replacement theory and GOP rhetoric in the spotlight. I’m quitting the party.

I’ve been a political conservative most of my life, having worked for two Republican presidents and for a GOP-controlled Congress. In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday, it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat …

Conspiracy

May 17, 2022 2020 election, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Spectrum News
UAlbany professor on a thread that links conspiracy theories

Does the so-called “Great Replacement Theory” share any common ground with other contemporary conspiracy theories like Pizzagate or Q-Anon? According to one UAlbany professor, the conspiracies may vary, but there is a link: A belief in a national or global conspiracy (led by, for example, Jews, …

Conspiracy

May 17, 2022 qanon

Archived 4 years ago from PolitiFact
Local TV error leads spurs Buffalo shooting ‘crisis actor’ conspiracy theory

PolitiFact | Local TV error leads spurs Buffalo shooting ‘crisis actor’ conspiracy theory A reporter who covered the Buffalo supermarket shooting was a “crisis actor.” Police walk outside the Tops grocery store on May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) Local TV error leads spurs Buffalo shooting …

Opinion | Disturbing primary elections show how the GOP normalizes extremism

Conspiracy

May 17, 2022 qanon

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Opinion | Disturbing primary elections show how the GOP normalizes extremism

Placeholder while article actions load It looks likely that after Tuesday’s primary in Pennsylvania, the Republican nominees for governor and senator will both have been enthusiastic participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the Capitol. Though they did not engage in violence, both are election …

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