Rep. Josh Schriver, a Republican lawmaker from Michigan, was removed from his committee assignment and had his staff placed under oversight after retweeting a post on X, formerly Twitter, by Jack Posbiec, which opponents claim is ‘racist.’
The post featured an image of a world map where black figures vastly outnumber white, accompanied by the phrase, “The great replacement!”
Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate, a Black Democrat, said he would not allow the House to be a forum for “racist, hateful and bigoted speech.” However, Tate did not explain or elaborate as to how the post in question was actually racist, hateful, or bigoted.
The so-called “Great Replacement theory” posits that there is an intentional effort to replace whites in their homelands with non-white immigrants. Given that whites make up less than 25 percent of the global population and the vast majority of migration into ‘white’ countries — which has been encouraged by Western leaders — comes from non-white nations, the ‘theory’ is broadly speaking true.
Last month, an analysis by the Collage Group found that non-white Americans will be the majority in the United States by 2050. In 2023, a BBC survey found that a third of Britons believe that replacement ‘theory’ is true.
