White supremacists who believe they live "The Tale of the Housekeeper"

White women have fewer children because they are dedicated to their careers. the quantity of sperm generated by white men also decreases; the other races will conquer us; We must be like Muslims, women at home caring for children. These are convictions of white supremacists flooding social networks and that they are triggering more and more terrorist attacks around the world. The epicenters of these foolish theories and the most violent and constant actions are found in the United States, but are spreading all over Europe. A few days ago, we saw it in New Zealand when a supremacist entered a mosque and killed 50 people, claiming that "it's the birth rate."

The The FBI has 850 investigations opened for national terrorismNearly half are cases of violent extremism based on race. This was reported this week by Deputy Director of Counter Terrorism, Michael McGarrity, during his testimony before the National Security Committee of the House of Representatives in Washington. McGarrity said that "the vast majority of cases motivated by racial hatred involve white supremacist extremists" and described the threat posed by internal terrorists as "persistent and evolving". "In fact," he says, "In recent years, there have been more arrests and deaths in the United States caused by domestic terrorists than by international terrorists"In 2018, there were six attacks on racial or religious grounds that left 17 dead and a hundred others that did not result in deaths.

The congressional hearing was convened after two attacks in California and a conspiracy against a mbadive attack in several states, all motivated by religious reasons and organized by white supremacists. For President Donald Trump, all this is an exaggeration. Addressing reporters after the attack on the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the tycoon said he did not see white nationalism as a growing threat, adding, "I think it's a small group of people who are serious. "The democratic opposition responded harshly. Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, spoke of Trump's lack of response to a white nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, which resulted in one death. "Their reluctance to denounce themselves and to stand out from these extremists is interpreted by many of us as tacit support," he said.

Of the 850 national terrorism cases investigated by the FBI, nearly half are conducted by "nationalist libertarians"They oppose" oppression "of the state and immigration, and the vast majority of whites living in rural Midwestern US are" very angry "with this. Trump and the politicians and traditional parties they see as "traitors." Members of the National Security Committee emphasized the role that social networks play in all this. "One of the biggest problems we've had with domestic terrorism and the spread of international terrorism in the United States is the inability of companies that manage social networks to block the hate messages that are spreading on the Internet. "Representative John Katko, a Republican from New York, said the companies are responsible and should be more active in the fight against extremism." However, Brad Wiegmann, Deputy Attorney General of the Division of Ad Nacional security, said that relationships with companies such as Facebook and Twitter are "very strong" and that their self-regulation has improved significantly. What is certain is that White supremacists continue to communicate through networks and encourage each other with their messages of racial hatred.

"It's a matter of birth rate," they repeat in "white" club discussions, which range from "Hell's Angels" bikers to farmers and veterans of the army. The same phrase that white supremacists shouted with hand torches in Charlottesville, in one of the worst national terrorist attacks in recent years. And they add, "They will not replace us." This is also the slogan of the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa, for example. Behind the idea is a racist conspiracy theory known as "replacement theory", which was popularized by a far right French philosopher. The hypothesis, an extension of the colonialist theory, is based on the idea that white women do not have enough children and that low birth rates will lead to the replacement of Caucasians around the world by people from all over the world. other breeds. . And like most fundamentalist ideologies, at the root of everything is the subjection of women.

This concern, which they consider an existential threat, means that The problem is "women who work instead of founding families". Groups accuse feminism and ask questions about issues that seemed to have been overcome decades ago, such as: Should women have the right to work and vote?

"In their mindset of clash of civilizations, white men are in a more vulnerable position because their women do not do the work of reproduction," he explained. New York Times Arun Kundnani, professor at New York University and author of "Muslims Come! Islamophobia, Extremism and the National War on Terror". "They say," Look, Muslims have their wives where they should be and we do not do it as we should. "

Birth rates have raised concerns among supremacists, in part because of recent studies showing a decrease in the number of sperm and testosterone in men. Many of them have sperm counters and publish the results on networks almost daily; others are turning to testosterone replacement therapy, convinced that modernity has feminized them. They give a new "scientific angle" to ancestral fears that lead them to promote more violent and apocalyptic policies..

And if these fears are multiplying in Internet discussion forums, they are already spreading to mbadive and conventional right-wing spaces. Tucker Carlson, conductor of Fox News, is one of the promoters of the debate. Last month, he began his program with a segment that he said it was the "biggest problem our country will face from now on, bigger than wars and the gross domestic product: the collapse of families. "The main cause of this collapse, he said, is that" some women are now earning more than some men ".

The panic about low birth rates among middle-clbad whites is universal. In a book published in 2012, the French philosopher Renaud Camus claimed that all Western countries were about to be eradicated by the birth rate. This theory has sparked far-right campaigns such as that of the Dutch supremacist Geert Wilders. It has also become the fundamental philosophy of several racial attacks in the United States. And even Rep. Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, tweeted in 2017: "We can not restore our civilization with the babies of others."

They are also based on official statistics that show a deceleration of the birth rate in several Western countries. In the United States, the birth rate is currently around 1,765.5 per 1,000 women, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), below the level needed to keep the population stable without immigration. To stop that, the supremacists say that it is necessary to "re-educate" women so that they spend less time at work and have more children.

It moves them especially fear. They are terrified of losing their privileges for centuries. They do not understand the scientific, technological and even anthropological revolution of the 21st century. Far fewer multiracial and multicultural societies. They think to live in the fiction of Margaret Atwood ",The story of the maid"(The Handmaid's Tale), which they never read, but which they are fans in their small screen version.