“During the interaction, in which the community member questioned the men about their views, they said they believed white people were being “exterminated” and echoed the false idea, often referred to as the Great Replacement Theory, that left-wing elites were bringing in immigrants to replace white people.
“Americans are European people. This country was founded by white Europeans for white Europeans,” the men said. Immigration, they added, “is explicitly anti-white.”
In truth, the 1965 immigration law that enabled most U.S. immigration over the past half-century was designed by lawmakers to attract mainly white immigrants, though
the plan backfired. Prior to that, U.S. immigration laws openly favored Europeans.
The men repeatedly asked the community member if she was Jewish. “I can tell you’re Jewish,” one of them said. When she asked them if they were anti-Jewish, one of the men said, “I don’t see why that would be an issue.”
