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What Prominent Tech Leaders and VCs Have to Say on Buffalo and “Great Replacement Theory”
Self-described free speech advocates like Elon Musk have been conspicuously silent
Back in January, I wrote a piece here about the first anniversary of the January 6th attack focusing on the conspicuous silence of a wide range of tech leaders and VCs, people who pride themselves on how innovative they are, how they’re making the world a better place, yadda yadda. It’s now been nearly a week since a young white racist drove himself to a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo and then entered a supermarket, deliberately shooting at people and shouting racist slurs as he did. Thirteen people were shot, eleven Black and two white, and ten died.
The shooter live-streamed his attack and also posted a racist manifesto online that makes clear he believes in the “great replacement theory” (GRT) that America’s white majority is being deliberately replaced by Democrats, Jews, people of color and other elites all dedicated to white genocide by illegal immigration, and that he was radicalized in part by the manifestos of other previous mass shooters who believed in similar ideas. As many people have been pointing out, a lot of bad actors in the Republican ecosystem, led by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and ranging…
