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  1. Sep 2024
    1. The suspect accused of a mass murder at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 and the killer behind an attack at a mosque and a community center in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019 each cited the “great replacement” theory. So did the suspect in the August 2019 attack on a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the individual who opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, and set fire to a mosque in Escondido, California, in 2019.

      list of attacks in fear of the great replacement theory

    1. national governments or unspecified elites are secretly directing the replacement

      government involvement too

    1. A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or circumstance that accuses powerful actors of working in secret for their own benefit, against the common good, and in a way that undermines bedrock societal norms, rules, or laws

      meaning of conspiracy theory

    2. the scientific consensus on climate change (Miller et al., 2016), the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate (Pasek et al., 2014), COVID-19 (Miller, 2020), and the election of Joe Biden

      things that cater to republican beliefs

    3. identify Republicans, conservatives, corporations, and the rich as conspirators

      things that cater to democratic beliefs

    4. the left is more prone to conspiracy theorizing than the right

      "nuh-uh"

    5. fake news and misinformation online

      right is more likely to engage with fake news & misinformation

    6. an artifact of which conspiracy theories researchers investigate

      conspiracy theories are catered to individual interests, thus some conspiracy theories will only attrach certain people and not others