Tucker Carlson's 'Great Replacement' Theory Comes From An Anti- US, Nazi French Thinker, Rene Binet

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- Fox News Tucker Carlson speaks in Esztergom, Hungary during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Feszt on Aug. 7, 2021.
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- By Juan Cole, Common Dreams, May 16, 2022, Ed.

- People like Tucker Carlson are pitifully ignorant of history and so are wielding an anti-American, highly unpatriotic notion for the sake of their television ratings. -

A hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African-Americans in Buffalo on Saturday, having penned a rambling screed about replacement theory. The most common version of this whiny idea, imported from the more hysterical fringes of the French Right wing, holds that Jewish capitalists are importing cheap immigrant labor to replace more highly-paid white workers. Notoriously, the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 against the removal of Confederate statues chanted "Jews will not replace us." The shooter who killed 11 Jewish Americans at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 espoused the idea of the "great replacement."

The hateful ideology is shamelessly promoted by Fox Cable News (CEO Lachlan Murdoch), with the worst offender being the Lord Haw-Haw of the 21st c., Carlson, who exposed his audience to the great replacement excrement 400 times in the past year. GOP legislators across the US have been putting in laws against teaching of critical race theory, which helps us understand the hold & the effect of ideas like the great replacement, & which hasn't killed anyone. They don't seem to be as eager to legislate against Nazi ideas. (It is a Nazi idea.) The racist notion of the "great replacement" originated in Europe & had many exponents of various stripes. Contrary to what is sometimes alleged, however, the phrase itself was not coined by Maurice Barres in early 20th c. France, though he certainly believed in the ideas behind it.

The phrase, & the most extensive elaboration of the theory, originated with the French Nazi RENE BINET (1913-1957), who served during WW II in The Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne, which consisted of French collaborators. You don't get more fascist than that– the Charlemagne Brigade were the last troops to defend Hitler's bunker before his suicide, & staged a failed, desperate fight against the Soviet army's advance into Berlin. Binet fulminated after the war against "the invasion of Europe by Negroes & Mongols," by which he meant Americans & Soviets. He saw Americans as an impure mestizo "race" (he was a biological racist). He also launched diatribes against unbridled capitalism & the ways in which Jews were using it to abet the replacement of civilized white Europeans.

So this supposedly far right American nationalist idea actually originated in hatred for Americans & a denigration of their supposed "whiteness" by the European Right, which did not see Russians as "white" either.

Unlike cowardly boot-lickers like Benet, the true patriots were the multi-cultural French. The French Army & then De Gaulle's Free French Army included thousands of riflemen (Tirailleurs) from Senegal. During WWII the French recruited 179,000 Tirailleurs; some 40,000 were deployed to Western Europe. Many were sent to bolster the French Maginot Line along its border with Germany & Belgium during the German invasion in 1940—where many were killed or taken prisoner. After France fell, others served in the Free French Army in Tunisia, Corsica, Italy, & in the south of France during liberation. I had 2 uncles who served in WWII, one at the Battle of the Bulge. My family has no doubt that it was the Allies who were the good guys. And the Allies were multi-racial. They included the Tuskegee Airmen, who bombed Nazi targets, The Allies were the diverse American rainbow, & it was their diversity that gave them the strength to prevail...

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/16/tucker-carlsons-great-replacement-theory-comes-anti-us-nazi-french-thinker
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- NPR, What Is The 'Great Replacement' and How Is It Tied to the Buffalo Shooting Suspect' May 16, 2022,
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099034094/what-is-the-great-replacement-theory



- Rene Binet, Neo-Fascist, Racist, Anti Semite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Binet_(neo-Fascist)

- René Binet (16 Oct. 1913 – 16 Oct. 1957) was a French militant political activist. Initially a Trotskyist in the 1930s, he espoused fascism during World War II and joined the SS Charlemagne Division. Soon after the end of the war, Binet became involved in numerous neo-fascist and white supremacist publications and parties. He wrote the 1950 book Théorie du racisme, deemed influential on the European far-right at large. Binet died in a car accident in 1957, aged 44. According to scholar Nicolas Lebourg, "Binet’s openly advertised racialism has paved the way to an anti-colonialist and anti-immigrant ethnopluralism celebrated by the New Right and then the Identitarians. Abandoning classic nationalism and Aryanism for the notion of a 'white world', Binet clearly outlined the forthcoming themes of 'white genocide' and the ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government).

.. Binet founded the bulletin Le Drapeau Noir to defend "the demands of the soldiers of the East", that is former Waffen-SS and LVF members. His sympathizers belonged to the Front Noir, a clandestine organization that contemplated armed struggle in order to build a "new Europe" relying on fascism. The organization had linked with other neo-fascist groups abroad via a Front Noir International and a Secours Noir International, 2 organizations that acted as an "embryonic" and "ephemeral" transnational union of fascist activists according to political scientist Jean-Paul Gautier. Binet also co-founded with fascist writer Saint-Loup the newspaper Combattant européen in March 1946, which claimed to fight the "colonization of Europe" by "negroes" and "Mongols" and advocated the union of former communist resistance fighters and the Waffen-SS in order to build "the European nation".

.. New European Order: In July 1950, Binet launched the magazine Le Nouveau Prométhée, which presented itself as "national-progressist" and tried to appear more mainstream, and where he developed his theories on "biological realism". The text published in the first issue was adapted the same year as a brochure entitled Théorie du racisme in order to serve as a doctrinal pamphlet advocating racial segregation. The magazine disappeared after one year of existence in 1951. The same year, Binet founded the group Nation and Progress, which later inspired the Nationalist Movement of Progress and Nouvelle Droite leaders. Binet also became close to Maurice Bardèche and the French National Committee. In 1951, he went to Malmö with Bardèche and attended the meeting that saw the formation of the European Social Movement, a neo-fascist alliance set up to bring together nationalists from all over Europe.

.. However, Binet soon broke from the new group which he felt did not go far enough in terms of racialism and anti-communism, and joined instead Amaudruz in establishing the Zurich-based New European Order (NEO) as a more radical alternative in 1951. The group called at its founding for a "European racial policy" in order to improve the European gene pool via eugenicist interventions and control of ethnic inter-marriages. Binet aimed at federating the nationalists of Europe – from former Waffen-SS members to former resistance fighter – against what he called the Russo-American occupation of the continent by "niggers", "Mongols" and "Jews"...

[tanyev]

1. I think blaming it on ignorance and a quest for ratings is still being too kind.

[appalachiablue]

2. In the realm of Faux world, TC knows what he's doing

and the rantings are designed, fueled and driven by the far right. The racism and white supremacy focus is far more complex and widespread but IMO the message must be tailored for the Fox audience, as in forget a lot of 'history' and truth. The author is correct to note earlier figures and movements like Benet in Europe. However, this influence could be above the average viewers head and possibly dilute the 'Americanism' of the message of racism, 'white genocide' and hate in the US.

[ancianita]

3. And so does Rupert Murdoch, owner and operator of that world.

It's a sick pseudo intellectual and dark debunked world that Fox draws from.

[appalachiablue]

4. Murdoch & Co. fouling news and poisoning countries

around the world, Australia, NZ, UK, US.

[Socal31]

5. It would be nice if the UN helped us out on this one.

While this doesn't say what the wingnuts think it says, it could use some re-branding.

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/ageing/replacement-migration.asp