Great Replacement

English

Alternative forms

• great replacement

Etymology

Calque of French Grand Remplacement.

Proper noun

the Great Replacement

1. The gradual demographic and cultural replacement of the white French population, or (by extension) other white European populations, by non-European peoples who are deliberately assisted by elites, according to a nationalist conspiracy theory.
   • 2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Echoing the man accused of fatally shooting dozens of people at two mosques in New Zealand in March, the El Paso gunman’s manifesto mentioned the “great replacement,” a conspiracy theory that warns of white genocide.

   • 2021, Andreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel, editors, Europe: Continent of Conspiracies, London: Routledge, →ISBN:

     The opponents of the ‘Great Replacement’ have to be ‘united to form a common front on a pan-European level’, since the battle stands between ‘replacists’ and ‘non-replacists’ only (43–44).

   • 2021, Tom Brass, Marxism missing, missing Marxism […] , Leiden: BRILL, →ISBN, page 241:

     […] instead of depicting this development as evidence for the Great Replacement […]

   • 2021 September 14, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     [Éric Zemmour] does not hesitate to push the white nationalist conspiracy theory of the supposed great replacement of the established population by newer arrivals from Africa.

Related terms

• replacism
• replacist

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: Grote Vervanging f, Grote Omvolking f
• Finnish: väestönvaihto (fi)
• French: Grand Remplacement (fr) m
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see Wielka Wymiana f

See also

• white genocide
• white replacement theory