great replacement theory

SPRINGFIELD AND THE MEMEFICATION OF POLITICS

September 18, 2024 by Kenan Malik

This essay, on what the claims about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, tells us about politics, was published in the Observer on 15 September 2024 under the headline “Trump’s fantasy that migrants are eating cats proves the meme has prevailed over real politics”. If one town could be emblematic of the vicissitudes of blue-collar life in America, Springfield, Ohio, might be as good a pick as any. At the heart of the midwest, Springfield’s prosperity was built on manufacturing and publishing. […]

Categories: International, Politics, Race & Immigration • Tags: donald trump, eating pets, elon musk, great replacement theory, haitian immigrants, immigrants, immigration panics, jd vance, memefication, memeification, nathan clark, racism, springfield, white identity

RACISM REBRANDED

January 19, 2023 by Kenan Malik

This is an extract from my book Not So Black and White, prefaced by an introduction to the themes of the book. It was published in the Observer’s New Review on 8 January 2023. (I have not put in the links; you can find the references in the book.) “The Negro is not. Any more than the white man.” So wrote Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born revolutionary and intellectual, in his 1952 masterpiece, Black Skin, White Masks. He was making an argument about […]

Categories: Culture & Books, Kenan Malik, Not so Black and White, Race & Immigration • Tags: alain de benoist, alt-right, bat ye'or, douglas murray, ethnopluralism, far right, generation identity, great replacement theory, grece, identity politics, immigration, lionel shriver, muslims, nouvelle droite, racism, white decline, white identity

THE DRIP OF FAR RIGHT IDEAS INTO MAINSTREAM THINKING

July 6, 2022 by Kenan Malik

This essay, on the seeping of far-right ideas into mainstream thinking, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 3 July 2022, under the headline “It’s not just the far right that should worry us. It’s their ideas seeping into the mainstream”. It is not often that the election of deputy speakers to a parliament can be described as portentous. The appointment last week of vice-presidents (the equivalent of deputy speakers) of the French national assembly was almost unnoticed outside […]

Categories: International, Politics • Tags: alain de benoist, communist party, douglas murray, emmanuel macron, far right, france, front national, gerald darmien, great replacement theory, immigration, marine le pen, pcf, racism, rassemblement national