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Renaud Camus (1946–) is a French neo-fascist, white supremacist, and the creator of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. His writings are heavily influential amongst the western far-right. He came up with the theory in a batshit insane book he wrote, and the conspiracy theory eventually took a life of its own.
Camus was formerly a socialist and a gay writer during the '80s. However, sometime during the '90s, he gradually transitioned into a racial segregationist advocating for separate spaces between gay white men and gay black men, with gay white men having separate spaces from straight white men. Eventually, he applied his ideology to racial purity and segregating society in general.[1]
Creation of the theory[edit]
Camus' theory was birthed when he wrote his book L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence (Abecedarium of no-harm), in which he detailed that the Great Replacement (referred to as "le Grand Remplacement" in the book) began during the Industrial Revolution, when immigration to Europe occurred in small but significant numbers. At the time, the book focused on France specifically, but the theory spread to the focus of all of Europe, as well as the Western world.[2]
View and political activity[edit]
Camus has been an activist for numerous far-right and white nationalist groups in France and Europe. Camus has stated that he is fighting against the advent of Islam in Europe and preventing the “Islamization” of the west to prevent Europe becoming “just another stupefied part of the globe”. Camus believes that a “global elite” is sending mass refugees from Africa and Asia (mostly Muslim refugees) to turn Europe into a racially impure empire colonized by Muslims.
Camus supports LGBT rights (being a gay man himself), but he believes that LGBT people should be separated in different spaces by race, and have their own spaces separate from straight people.[3]
Stopped clock[edit]
Despite his bigotry and the enormous suffering and chaos caused by his stupid conspiracy theory, Camus has openly condemned antisemitism and Nazism, having left movements (which he created or influenced) that engaged in antisemitic violence.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us” Washington Post
- ↑ The father of ‘great replacement’: An ex-socialist French writer New Yorker
- ↑ Bitch Nation London Review of Books
- ↑ “You will not replace us”: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant Vox