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Xinyi Zhang

Actress

Oct 9, 2026

5:08
Do you want to sort of say a little bit more about that?
5:13
If we take the example of Great Replacement Theory here, it has circulated widely across far-right media and also far-right podcasts and also their online memes.
5:27
And it began... as a really fringe idea and it has gradually moved from the fringe into a broader public discourse and on the surface the theory presents itself as like cultural concerns about national identity but what embedded within it is like a deeper conspiratorial claim that demographic change and is not organic but engineered by the government and what they call the globalist elite.
6:05
So the belief that a conspiracy theory about how it is actively replacing white population, white Europeans with non-white immigrants led to a political conclusion that democracy won't stop this because democracy is part of that conspiracy.
6:28
And then the only answer is violence.
6:30
And that's exactly what the shooter in El Paso and in Christchurch, they believe.
6:38
And that's also the danger of the escalating and cultural wars today.

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35:28
Zinni, what do you think?

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