Right, yeah, that's pretty cut and dried.
The idea that there is a proactive 'Great Replacement' insane and fascinating.
Wiki on the The Great Replacement, the Irish version.
"A 2019
Lidl advertisement that featured a white Irish woman, her
Afro-Brazilian partner and their
mixed race son was targeted by former journalist
Gemma O'Doherty as part of an attempt at a "Great Replacement". After facing online harassment the family decided to leave Ireland.
[119][120][121] The "Great Replacement" has also been used in Ireland in opposition to
direct provision centres, used to house
asylum seekers.
[122]
Writing in 2020,
Richard Downes said that "Rather than seeing the increase in non-Irish people living and making their lives here as being a normal part of a modern European country, some of the new nationalists see it as a conspiracy to overwhelm Ireland with foreigners. For many of them the conspirators include the Irish government,
NGOs, the
EU and the
UN. They believe that these organisations want to replace Irish people with brown and black people from abroad."
[123]
The term "great replacement" was also used when the
RTÉ News featured the three first babies born in 2020, born to
Polish, Black and Indian mothers; journalist
Fergus Finlay saying "I don't care about the vulgar abuse, but I really do believe that these hatemongers should be prosecuted when they incite others to hatred and violence against people whose only crime is their skin colour or religion. I find it hard to understand why the State hasn't acted already against these cruel ideologues who think they can say whatever they like under the banner of
free speech. They may be small in number now, and on the surface they may just seem bonkers, but we've been here before. Political movements have been built on hatred of the other, and we know the damage they have caused."
[124]
Garda Commissioner (national chief of police)
Drew Harris spoke about
far right groups in 2020, saying that "Irish groups [believing] in the great replacement theory" had plans "to disrupt key State institutions and infrastructure. This included
Dublin Port, high profile shopping areas such as
Grafton Street in Dublin,
Dáil Éireann and Government departments."
[125][126][127]
Some participants in the
2022–2023 Irish anti-immigration protests such as
Hermann Kelly and
Derek Blighe support a Great Replacement theory, as well as referring to the influx of immigrants as an "invasion" and a "
plantation".
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