The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups killed Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday morning after the TV talk show offered a passionate defense of the racist conspiracy theory “Great Replacement.”
The theory is a “white supremacist principle that says the white race is in danger from a growing tide of non-whites,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Friday morning, noting that the concept has also served of motivation for several high-profile mass murders. .
“She is anti-Semitic, racist and toxic. He has reported the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh, “wrote the ADL leader, who added a call for the removal of the TV star:” Tucker must go. “
Later Friday, the ADL released a letter to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott listing other examples of Carlson’s anti-Semitic comments. “We believe in dialogue and in giving people a chance to redeem themselves, but Carlson’s full adoption of the theory of the replacement of white supremacism in yesterday’s program and his repeated allusions to racist issues in past segments are a bridge too far, ”the organization wrote.
During a guest presentation on Thursday evening Fox News Primetime, apparently to promote his new daytime program on Fox Nation streaming service, Carlson inevitably started talking about one of his favorite topics: immigration.
Talking to guest and host Mark Steyn, who has previously promoted the white supremacist novel The Camp of the Saints, Carlson came together to defend those who believe the white race is threatened with being replaced and eradicated by immigrants and minorities.
“I now know that the left and all the little Twitter porters become literally hysterical if you use the term‘ replacement ’if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters who vote now with new people, “Most obedient voters in the Third World,” the Fox News star said. “But they get hysterical because that’s what’s really going on. Let’s just say. That’s true.”
Adding that “dilute the political power of the people” in a country if you “change the population,” Carlson went on to say he would be “disenfranchised as a current voter” every time “a new voter matters.” After complaining that “everyone wants to make it a racial issue,” the Fox host proceeded to once again defend the “white replacement theory.”
“No, no, this is a question about the right to vote. I have less political power because they care about a new electorate, ”he exclaimed. “Why should I sit down and take this? The power I have as an American guaranteed at birth is from a man, a vote, and they dilute it. No, they’re not allowed to do that. Why do we put up with this?”
“It’s horrible that Fox News continues to enable Tucker Carlson and other white nationalist ideologues to transmit this kind of hateful poison to the homes of tens of millions of Americans,” Logan Bayroff, J Street’s vice president of communications, said in a statement to The daily beast. “The conspiracy theory of the ‘Great Replacement’ is not just rhetoric: its racist and anti-Semitic propaganda that has helped incite deadly violence against American Jews, Muslims, immigrants and other vulnerable minorities. Every time this white supremacist hatred it is amplified in this way, the threat of future attacks on our communities is growing ”.
The theory of the “great replacement” is a xenophobic and anti-Semitic conspiracy. Racist extremists like Tucker will only amplify it as climate change drives more and more dislocation and migration, ”the Jewish progressive group If Not Now added in a statement in a tweet. “The struggle for Jewish security is the struggle for migration and climate justice.”
A Fox News spokesman insisted to The Daily Beast that Carlson somehow really rejected the theory, noting the host’s comments where he called it a “voting rights question.”
As Greenblatt pointed out, this exact theory that a shady elite is deliberately eradicating the white vote was the inspiration behind some of the most horrific and deadly mass shootings of recent years.
The racist assassins behind the El Paso and Christchurch massacres, for example, left behind manifestos in which they wrote at length about the theory. The shooter responsible for the murder of 11 Jewish faithful at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh openly believed that George Soros and Jewish humanitarian aid groups were carrying Central American migrants, “invaders,” as he referred to them. ) in the United States in order to “kill our people,” the white race.
The ADL’s call for Carlson’s expulsion is nothing new to the Fox News host, who has long been convicted and has pursued controversy over racist and xenophobic comments. His program lost the bulk of its prominent advertisers after declaring in late 2018 that immigrants make the United States “poorer and dirtier”.
Carlson also sparked widespread backlash and additional advertising boycotts to claim that white supremacy is a “deception” just three days after the El Paso shooter killed 22 people for fears of a “Hispanic invasion”; and to warn Fox News viewers that the “crowd” of Black Lives Matter “will come for you.”