Third, journalism must explain populist political positions and contexts even more intensively.
The conspiracy myth of the "Great Replacement" says that there is a secret plan to replace white majority societies with Muslim or at least "non-white" immigrants. The masterminds are elites, business, Jews, the European Union, the United Nations, etc. of the "white-skinned". The right-wing terrorist from Christchurch used this myth to justify middle east rcs data his mass murder in two mosques in March 2019. Actors of the so-called "Identitarian Movement" are taking up this propaganda - as are right-wing populists in Germany and Austria. The head of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alexander Gauland, warned of a "population exchange" at a party conference, and the former Austrian Vice Chancellor and FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache called for a "fight against population exchange".
This conspiracy theory is extremely dangerous and should therefore be taken very seriously because it is so simple: everything that looks foreign - people, buildings, snack bars, etc. - becomes proof that this "danger of extinction" is true. There is no need to struggle with justifications or the option that coexistence with different cultures might be possible, but rather we can unite in a global movement of self-defense and resistance against a supposed existential threat to the "white-skinned".