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Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus, commonly known as Renaud Camus, (born August 10 1946) is a French conspiracy theorist best known for creating the "Great Replacement", a racist conspiracy that claims a global elite (typically Muslims or the European Union) is attempting an ethnic cleansing against the white population of Europe to replace them with other races. This theory is also the origin of the common Alt-Right slogan "Jews will not replace us", although Camus claims to be opposed to the anti-Semitic elements of the movement.
Political activism
Camus began his activism in the late 1970s as an openly homosexual writer, campaigning for what has been characterised as white gay separatism. Dr. Musab Younis, an expert in international political thought, has described the views promoted by his works at the time as "above all, same-race, same-sex intercourse and the extinction of difference". Despite this, his works were promoted heavily by the LGBT community at the time and he has been labelled as a "gay icon" by the American press. However, by 1982 Camus had rejected the title of "homosexual writer". Around that time, he was also a member of the Socialist Party of France.
Camus claims that he came up with the idea of the Great Replacement in 1996 while editing a guidebook about the French region of Herault. In his words, "I suddenly realised that in very old villages (...) the population had totally changed too,". He based his ideas on a 1972 book entitled The Camp of the Saints that describes the fall of Western civilisation being caused by mass immigration from Arabia. He has since been accused of becoming "the ideologue of white supremacy" and "the acceptable face of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim politics".