{"id":48285,"date":"2022-05-16T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48285"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:33:09","slug":"democrats-hit-gop-over-replacement-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48285","title":{"rendered":"Democrats hit GOP over \u2018replacement theory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are taking Republicans to task this week following a racist mass shooting in western New York, accusing GOP lawmakers of fomenting violence by embracing the same white nationalist views as the alleged gunman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in both parties have been horrified by the massacre in Buffalo, where a lone gunman shot 13 people \u2014 10 of them fatally \u2014 at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. The suspect, an 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., a small rural town 200 miles east, had reportedly posted a long, online screed voicing fears that America\u2019s white population is being overrun by growing numbers of minorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That conspiracy, known as \u201creplacement theory,\u201d has a long history at the fringes of American politics, reverberating for decades within the underground worlds of white nationalism and white supremacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are taking Republicans to task&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48286,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48285\/revisions\/48286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}