Replacement and Eurabia narratives directly motivated Breivik’s and Tarrant’s terrorist attacks.

Evidence

In some of these more extreme calls for action, moreover, reproductive biopolitics go hand in hand with the necropolitics (Mbembé, 2003) of (calls to) terrorism: the ideas of Eurabia and great replacement were important factors in the white supremacist violence perpetrated by Breivik and Tarrant respectively. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 352

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone tracking the link between online ‘great replacement’ meme culture and real-world mass violence.
• XREF: Connects to Mbembé’s necropolitics framework and to literature on stochastic terrorism and manifesto-driven attacks.