Replacement discourse accumulates layered meanings while its core claim stays fixed

Evidence

Borrowing from Kyra Schuller (2018) we propose reading this discourse as a palimpsest, a discourse that accumu- lates layers through time, a discourse in which every (re)iteration adds layers of meaning (fiction, statistical, racial, conspiratorial, theological), while still bearing traces of or keeping intact the core idea (a deliberated Muslim plan to replace “native” European populations). — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 78

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the palimpsest model of discourse: new layers accrete without erasing the original inscribed claim.
• XREF: Connects to any body of work on conspiracist narratives as self-sealing and citationally recursive, e.g. studies of antisemitic or Great Replacement rhetoric.