Last month, during a campaign speech in front of thousands of people, French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse said two highly controversial words invoking a racist conspiracy theory: the ‘great replacement’. Originally used by the French far-right as a means to spread fear over immigration, the term “great replacement” refers to a highly racist and nationalistic theory that native, white Europeans are being outnumbered and replaced by non-white, non-European immigrants. Pécresse, a right-wing politician of the Les Républicains party, has previously used the term, as has far-right candid…