"I protest!"
Renaud Camus is a portrait of theatrical indignation. His eyes widen; a wry smile tugs at his lips. “There is no such thing as the Great Replacement Theory. It’s not a theory at all!” To him, the Great Replacement is a fact — and the mere suggestion otherwise is a provocation.
From the tower of his 14th-century castle, perched high on one of Gascony’s rolling hills, Camus claims he has seen the future of the West. It is, he warns, a future of replacement — a slow erasure of Europe’s “native” populations through mass immigration. The result is no less than “genocide by substitution”.
For his troubles, Camus now lives in a kind of exile. Once an essayist of minor renown, he is now one of Europe’s most contentious intellectuals — so much so that the UK Home Office just banned him from entering the country.
To his critics, Camus — no relation to the existentialist Albert — is the architect of a pernicious conspiracy theory: the belief that liberal governments are plotting to replace white populations with migrants. Some advocates claim this is intended to secure permanent left-wing majorities; others, such as right-wing provocateur Tommy Robinson, suggest the aim is to dismantle nation states and create a one-world government.
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