Rolling Stone magazine is using the Buffalo shooter as a political cudgel to demonize conservatives, falsely characterizing him as a “mainstream Republican.”
In Rolling Stone‘s article “The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican“, the magazine attempts to frame the 18-year old Buffalo shooter as a right-wing white supremacist influenced by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former President Donald Trump.
“The gnawing fear of a minority-white America has utterly consumed conservative politics for the past half-decade, creating a Republican party whose dual obsessions with nativism and white fertility have engendered a suite of policies engineered to change the nature of the body politic. What unites murderers like Gendron, and the long list of white supremacist attackers he cited with admiration, with the mainstream of the Republican party is the dream of a white nation,” wrote Talia Lavin.
Lavin goes on to argue that Trump’s populist politics and Fox News‘ coverage of white replacement in America set the stage for racist violence perpetrated by the likes of the Buffalo shooter.
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But Rolling Stone glosses over two very important facts.
First, the Buffalo shooter not only rejected conservative politics and media like Fox News, but described himself in a 180-page manifesto censored online as a “leftist authoritarian” and a “green nationalist” who subscribed to communism.
Not exactly the tenets of a “mainstream Republican.”
Second, Rolling Stone claims that the “Great Replacement”, the hypothesis that white people in America are being deliberately and systematically replaced by immigrants and nonwhites, is a “conspiracy theory.”
But the demographic data shows that are whites slowly being phased out as the majority in America due to immigration (legal and illegal) and declining birth rates.
