Ibram X. Kendi

And so that idea then emerged, spread, and it ultimately flowered, for the lack of a better term, in Nazi Germany, in which they positioned Jews as these internal...

replacers who are coming to annihilate Aryans and they needed to annihilate them before they annihilated us.

Well, what's striking is what we're seeing in the United States in which you have super wealthy people who are buying up legacy media organizations or creating new ones and then using those entities to spread great replacement theory is precisely what's happening around the world.

And to me, as a scholar, as an historian, I think the first thing I strive to do is to ensure that people can recognize

this dangerous and frankly dominant theory.

Because these politicians, these theorists have gone to great lengths to conceal that what's animating their politics is great replacement theory because they know that this is a neo-Nazi theory.

They know this is a theory espoused by those who oppose decolonization, those who are favorable to Jim Crow segregation, eugenicists, apartheid officials.

They know its history.

I do, and for instance, you have, I don't think there's a, there's a coincidence that since the war in Iran, since that war started, you've had more and more Republicans who have been positioning Muslim Americans as enemies inside the gates.

At the same time, they're positioning this as a war between who they call Judeo-Christians, so they sort of fuse

Jews and Christians as this sort of singular identity, completely erasing the history of Christian persecution of Jews against Muslims, right?

And that Muslims are trying to take over and destroy Judeo-Christian civilization and Iran

apparently is at the head of the snake.

So they're using great replacement theory to justify that war.

Of course, after Israel started bombing Gaza, after Hamas' horrific attack on Israeli citizens and others, they positioned Palestinians as human animals who were coming to destroy them, so they needed to harm them first.

That's classic great replacement theory.

I do.

And I write about specifically in this last section of the book,

not only narrate how Putin has justified his war on Ukraine through great replacement theory, but simultaneously how Netanyahu has justified his invasion of Gaza through great replacement theory.

And I allow the reader to see those comparisons, the rhetoric, the history, so that people can see that this theory is not only leading to genocide, all sorts of political violence, but even war.