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WhiteTara

(29,699 posts)
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:25 PM Mar 2019

Robert Mercer is Fueling A Multimillion Dollar Anti-Muslim Propaganda Industry

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/18/robert-mercer-is-fueling-a-multimillion-dollar-anti-muslim-propaganda-industry/
Carolyn Orr
Trump’s top donor, Robert Mercer, is at the centre of a multimillion-dollar anti-Muslim propaganda industry responsible for creating and spreading the same Islamophobic rhetoric found in the New Zealand shooter’s manifesto.

While much remains to be learned about the terrorist attack targeting worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the 17,000-word manifesto posted online by suspected gunman Brenton Tarrant makes it clear that far-right internet culture and white supremacist propaganda played an integral role in radicalizing the 28 year-old attacker.

In the manifesto, Tarrant made frequent reference to the white genocide conspiracy theory, which claims (falsely) that white people are being replaced by non-whites through changes in birth rates, mass immigration, and “forced assimilation.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, the belief system surrounding so-called “white genocide” represents “one of the most deeply held white supremacist convictions.”

More than $200 million was pumped into the anti-Muslim propaganda industry between 2008 and 2013.

The manifesto is riddled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, mostly in reference to the beliefs associated with the white genocide conspiracy theory. Throughout the document, Tarrant repeatedly referred to Muslims as “invaders” trying to take over “the West,” and lamented the “high fertility” rates among Muslim populations.

Tarrant frequently returned to the conspiratorial idea that whites are facing an existential threat due to increasing numbers of Muslims and other immigrants coming to predominantly white countries and “destroying” the culture. The word “destroy” appears 25 times in the document, while references to “birth rate” (or “birthrate”) and “fertility” appear 43 times, and references to Western or European “culture” appear 47 times.
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Robert Mercer is Fueling A Multimillion Dollar Anti-Muslim Propaganda Industry (Original Post) WhiteTara Mar 2019 OP
Precisely malaise Mar 2019 #1
fertilizer for a stand alone complex of aryan terrorism 0rganism Mar 2019 #2
Which is exactly why they do it Major Nikon Mar 2019 #10
K&R ck4829 Mar 2019 #3
If only we could seperate the xenophobics Maxheader Mar 2019 #4
trump, the Mercers, Steven Miller brer cat Mar 2019 #5
Kick dalton99a Mar 2019 #6
Cambridge Analytica SHRED Mar 2019 #7
He's going to need a shitload of lava to get all the blood off his hands. SaintLouisBlues Mar 2019 #8
I would be happy to help any good anti-Mercer campaign. Let him see how he likes it. Maraya1969 Mar 2019 #9
Looking At The Mercers, I've Always Wondered If There Was a Gargoyle In Their Ancestry! DoctorJoJo Mar 2019 #11
K&R... spanone Mar 2019 #12
driving immigration SMoss Mar 2019 #13

malaise

(268,885 posts)
1. Precisely
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:29 PM
Mar 2019

This is the source of international Islamophobia and more than a few have enriched themselves from it.

Get thee to the greatest page

0rganism

(23,937 posts)
2. fertilizer for a stand alone complex of aryan terrorism
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:32 PM
Mar 2019

just put the ideas out there, the perpetrators will follow eventually

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
10. Which is exactly why they do it
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:41 PM
Mar 2019

Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on religion. So rather than influence public policy, which they can’t, they hope to influence radical dipshits who will inevitably take direct action.

Maxheader

(4,371 posts)
4. If only we could seperate the xenophobics
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:35 PM
Mar 2019

from the rest of the world..Let those handjobs never receive any
of the benefits our Muslim brothers and sisters have bestowed on the world..

-medicine
-engineering
-compassion...wisdom...friendship...

brer cat

(24,547 posts)
5. trump, the Mercers, Steven Miller
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:49 PM
Mar 2019

many others in the trump circle are terrorists and I wish our media would make that clear. They are encouraging genocide. Tarrant is the result and unfortunately only one of many they have primed.

Maraya1969

(22,474 posts)
9. I would be happy to help any good anti-Mercer campaign. Let him see how he likes it.
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:36 PM
Mar 2019

I don't know much about the man except he is in bed with the devil but I'm sure some well placed rumors might knock him off of his despicable self.

Like maybe he has sex with dogs? Someone would know more about this.

Considering the man is causing the deaths of many many people I think an extraordinary measure is called for to fight him.

SMoss

(112 posts)
13. driving immigration
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 09:58 PM
Mar 2019

Upheavles in Muslim countries and immigration from those countries is being driven by drought, climate change. If we don't do something about climate change, global warming, we are going to see a lot more disparate people heading for Europe, Australia, and North America. We are also going to see a 10% drop in crop production as a result of a 2 degree rise in average yearly temp in the USA.

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