Believers in the Great Replacement theory hold that minority groups know that they cannot numerically supplant or defeat the majority white society, so their goal is to dilute or weaken it by advocating for as much immigration from non-white groups as possible. Thus, anyone who takes anything less than the hardest possible line on immigration can be accused of working to further the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

DEFINE: Explains the internal logic of the Great Replacement theory and why it labels even moderate immigration stances as complicit.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 123