House Democrats Dared Republicans to Oppose White Supremacy Measure. They Obliged.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted en masse on Wednesday in opposition to a decision condemning a white supremacist conspiracy concept, after Democrats tacked it onto a procedural measure to advance gun management laws, successfully daring the G.O.P. to oppose it.

The decision condemned the so-called nice alternative concept, the idea that Western elites need to “replace” and marginalize white Americans, which apparently motivated the gunman who slaughtered 10 Black folks at a grocery store in Buffalo final month. The measure, which additionally opened an hourslong debate on laws to prohibit the sale of semiautomatic weapons to folks below the age of 21 and ban the sale of magazines that maintain greater than 15 rounds of ammunition, handed 218 to 205, with Republicans uniformly opposed.

Republicans are additionally all however unanimous of their opposition to Democrats’ gun management bundle, and it’s exceedingly uncommon for members of the minority get together to vote in favor of the bulk’s procedural measures in any case. By together with the decision on alternative concept, Democrats had been searching for to put Republicans on the spot on the problem.

The resolution, sponsored by Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, honored the Buffalo taking pictures victims and denounced the ideology that seems to have motivated their killer, calling it “a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been used to falsely justify racially motivated, violent acts of terrorism domestically and internationally.”

“We cannot continue to carry on as if this hatred is an undeniable part of American culture and cannot change,” Mr. Bowman stated. “We must combat white supremacy. I refuse to be complicit in this hatred because we have failed to take a stand as a nation.”

Democrats have criticized Republicans for failing to condemn alternative concept, noting that a few of them have voiced comparable themes with nativist language about immigrants, resembling calling them invaders and suggesting they’re being despatched into the United States to dilute the votes of native-born Americans.

“Many individuals in positions of power and media institutions with widely viewed public platforms have contributed to the normalization and legitimization of the underlying principles of the great replacement theory,” the decision asserted.

The concept has grow to be an engine of racist terror, serving to encourage a wave of mass shootings lately. And in Republican politics, it has slowly migrated from the far-right fringes of discourse to the middle.

“For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is, what appears to them is, we’re replacing national-born American — native-born Americans to permanently transform the landscape of this very nation,” Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, stated earlier this year at a listening to on immigration.

Some Republicans, together with Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican, have condemned the speculation. But many have ducked questions on it and resisted calls to break with the politics of nativism and concern that animate their core supporters.

“Notably absent is the condemnation of our leaders on the right,” stated Representative Mark Takano, Democrat of California, “who refuse to speak out against this senseless violence and call for what it is: hate speech meant to divide us.”

In addition to each Republican, two Democrats, Representatives Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Jared Golden of Maine, additionally voted no. Mr. Golden beforehand opposed gun control legislation handed by the House, and a spokesman for Ms. Slotkin stated her vote was to protest the way in which Democratic management had lumped the gun management measures collectively in a single bundle.