Tucker Carlson’s Great Replacement Theory
Tucker Carlson knows what he无毛视频檚 doing.
He thinks people are stupid.
He frequently speaks in ways that racists can make use of his frequent rants for their purposes.
Then he expresses surprise that anybody would blame him for actions those racists took.
He now cleverly claims that he doesn无毛视频檛 even know what the term 无毛视频淕reat Replacement Theory无毛视频� is.
He无毛视频檚 lying.
He knows exactly what it is.
Last September, Matt Gaetz, that flame-throwing congressman from Florida once tweeted, 无毛视频淍TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening in America.无毛视频�
For Carlson and white supremacists, there are just too many non-white people attempting to grab a share of this Democracy.
And if they do, they theorize, those people will most certainly replace them.
That means immigrants, as well as Black and brown Americans 无毛视频� with the assistance of Jewish Americans 无毛视频撀� are crowding out white Americans.
I无毛视频檓 Black.
In case you didn无毛视频檛 know it, that means I无毛视频檓 supposedly 无毛视频渞eplacing无毛视频� some 73-year-old white guy, who would make this country a lot better if I wasn无毛视频檛 here.
I无毛视频檝e left before. (Vietnam)
I am not leaving again.
This 无毛视频淕reat Replacement Theory无毛视频� stuff is a sick philosophy that first surfaced in the media in August of 2017, during that deadly 无毛视频淯nite the Right无毛视频� rally in Charlottesville, Va. That无毛视频檚 when white supremacists proudly walked through the streets carrying burning tiki torches, chanting, 无毛视频淛ews will not replace us.无毛视频�
Of course, it didn无毛视频檛 stop there.
Americans awakened a little over a week ago and learned that an 18-year-old avowed racist had taken his cowardice to Buffalo, N.Y. 无毛视频� where he acted on it.
Not surprisingly, it was later revealed that he, too, knew all about the 无毛视频淕reat Replacement Theory.无毛视频�
That he无毛视频檇 used part of it as the basis for killing as many Black people as he could.
America never seems to run out of these kinds of people.
Thanks, in part, to them taking their cues from the Tucker Carlsons of the world.
Carlson should be ashamed of himself.
He无毛视频檚 not.
These days, his goal is to make more money 无毛视频� and to gather as many devotees as possible.
Fox News无毛视频� most popular host (3陆 million viewers or so a night) has fanned the flames of racial hatred on his show for years.
He无毛视频檚 skillful enough to cloak his message in the familiar codes that white supremacists use to communicate with each other.
无毛视频淭his is a voting rights question. I have less political power because they无毛视频檙e importing a brand-new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that?无毛视频� he asked during one of his famous Fox News diatribes.
It didn无毛视频檛 take long for many people in the media to point their fingers directly at Carlson, because of his apparent hate speech, cloaked in code words, for helping to provide a platform for white supremacy.
The day after the tragedy, Carlson appeared on Fox News, ready to throw the focus off of himself, and onto anybody but him.
He ran a series of video clips with people decrying hate speech.
Then, he went on the attack.
无毛视频淪o, what is hate speech? Well, it无毛视频檚 speech that our leaders hate,无毛视频� he surmised.
He left out the most important part. The one about how hate speech inspires racist vigilantes to slaughter innocent people.
He may disregard the fingers being pointed at him. And he foolishly denies his role in advancing the 无毛视频淕reat Replacement Theory.无毛视频�
So much so, that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer devoted a floor speech to Carlson无毛视频檚 antics the day following the Buffalo mass murders.
无毛视频淭ucker Carlson has spewed rhetoric that echoes replacement theory 400 times on his show since 2016,无毛视频� Schumer said.
And he went further. He sent a letter to the chairman of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, asking him to 无毛视频渋mmediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called 无毛视频楪reat Replacement theory'无毛视频� on his network无毛视频檚 shows.
It无毛视频檚 worth noting that when Carlson and those other Fox News hosts imply that immigrants are 无毛视频渞eplacing无毛视频� Americans, they could be talking about their boss 无毛视频� Murdoch 无毛视频� who无毛视频檚 an immigrant himself.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.