Today, as my newest book is released, nearly three-fourths of the world’s people live under authoritarian rule. Many of those authoritarian rulers are pushing a conspiracy theory that tells people that their life, their job, their status, their nation is all being lost, slipping away.

In fact, corporations have stagnated wages under his watch. And his regime has cut university research funding, leading to layoffs of U.S. researchers and declines in U.S. grad students.

The US is investigating 9 universities over “visa fraud.” On Thursday, JD Vance said J-1 visas for international college students “undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers.” He also said companies use H-1B visas to “replace” Americans with “foreign indentured servants.”

In Athens, Greece with the ancient Parthenon behind him, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke yesterday of civilization at “an inflection point.” He evoked the zero-sum binary of Western supremacy or subjection, of White supremacy or subjection.

Hundreds of thousands of students have taken to France’s streets. Students are demanding more school funding and decrying teacher shortages and neglected buildings. But check out what Trump and Alex Jones are saying, hoping to generate new outrages against Muslims, Black people, and immigrants.

A word from Ibram X. Kendi! “Privilege is a relational concept. An administration . . . can increase socioeconomic racial disparities between White and Black people while both White and Black people find life becoming more unaffordable.”

Before thousands in Florida’s Polk County, JD Vance said Florida’s Black candidate for Senate Angie Nixon doesn’t “belong in America.” “Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here,” Nixon responded. “This is my home."

Zemmour called Black and Brown immigration “an invasion that is turning into colonization.” And, he said, “You cannot be French with a Muslim first name.” Muslims have lived in France for over 1,300 years.

Despite battling an embezzlement conviction, Marine Le Pen is favored in France’s presidential election in April, and her National Rally won its most senate seats ever Sunday. But last week, Le Pen’s ideological rival, Eric Zemmour, announced his bid to “save France from the great replacement.”

On Sept. 23, the government of Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni is banning Muslim burqas and niqabs in schools. The law puts a 30% cap per classroom on immigrant students. Meloni claimed Italian students “have become a minority.” Immigrants make up 11.6% of Italy's student population.

“The Swedish people have voted for a new direction for our country, voted for cohesion and against division.” —Magdalena Andersson

I heard Ibram X Kendi talk about this book on CBC and added it to my library holds. Finally reading it now. It's eye-opening and terrifying to face how insidious great replacement theory is. You think you know but it takes you deeper down the rabbit hole. It's an important read. I recommend it.

AfD is a neo-Nazi party. Let’s be more precise.