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This talking point “multiculturalism caused [insert] crisis” is virtually indistinguishable from Great Replacement theory, which has emerged in AU media even *before* an Australian White Nationalist cited the theory in a manifesto before committing mass murder in Christchurch. https://twitter.com/BenjaminMillar/status/1275971125705469953
Of course, Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern openly supported the same theory in their speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand in late 2018, again only mere months before Christchurch. Both were platformed, thus ‘legitimised’, on Australian ‘News’ channels and in newspapers.
In essence, on a public stage and via a prominent platform, figures such as Molyneux and Bolt have been given an opportunity to present their case for ‘othering’ migrants and POC in such a way as to frame them as dangerous or as a ‘risk’.
This concept is taken on by right-wing extremism, taken literally and, in my research into the discourse of right-wing extremist actors, emerges frequently in what I refer to as the language of urgency whereby concepts such as ‘invasion’ essentially automatically compel response.
Now, I’m not at all going so far as to suggest that compelling such a response is the desired outcome for the aforementioned names, but the language used is still almost immeasurably dangerous regardless and *should* be widely condemned (or at least soundly rebutted).
Here is my research for anyone interested, in which by studying the language and rhetoric used by right-wing extremist actors, we gain a glimpse of what ‘motivates’ their ultimate actions. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334027437_%27Warning_Signs%27_Transnational_Commonalities_in_Right-Wing_Extremist_Actors
