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‘Lineages of a conspiracy: the ‘great replacement’ and demography’ by Musab Younis.
➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/03063968261422608
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This piece finds that policy & prosecutorial responses to the Summer 2024 riots that followed the brutal killings of three little girls in Southport, downplayed the level of anti-immigration racism & Islamophobia in favour of a narrative that focussed on ‘mindless thuggery'.
‘Decontextualising the UK summer 2024 riots via the courtroom’ by Jon Burnett
➡https://journals.sagepub.com/share/TJEFQPPZKFFB2CMAPIIT?target=10.1177/03063968261423738
Younis contextualises the panic over racial replacement against the backdrop of demography, arguing that fears of ‘great replacement’ must be understood in the context of population science and European settler-colonialism.
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In Race& Class (an @irrnews.bsky.social journaL), DPIR's Musab Younis argues “great replacement” panic is rooted in a demographic tradition shaped by settler colonialism. Fears of White decline, he contends, help sustain racial hierarchy by framing equality as a threat: https://f.mtr.cool/bcodicdshu
