Fox Corp. is behind Tucker Carlson after the Antifamation League was called for last week the company fired the opinion host for its anti-aircraft defense of the white supremacist’s theory of the “great replacement.”
In a letter sent to the civil rights group Sunday and shared with The Associated Press, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Carlson had “denounced and rejected the theory of replacement” when he said during the Thursday evening segment : “White Replacement Theory? No, no, this is a question about voting rights.”
The ADL argued in a response sent Monday to Murdoch that Carlson used white supremacist language, though he claimed not to.
“Mr. Carlson’s attempt to dismiss this theory at first, although he eventually passed it under “a question of voting rights,” does not give him free license to invoke a white supremacist trope, “the director wrote. ADL General Jonathan Greenblatt.
Replacement conspiracy theory holds that people of color replace whites in the West, allowed by Jews and progressive politicians.
During a Thursday appearance on Fox News Primetime, Carlson “adopted a fundamental theory of white supremacy,” the ADL said.
During the show, Carlson said 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 of voters who vote now. with new people, more obedient Third World voters. ” He added that he had “less political power because they import a new electorate.”
The ADL also listed numerous cases in which Carlson has used anti-immigrant language in the past, including blaming immigration for making the U.S. “poorer, dirtier, and more divided,” and questioned whether white supremacy was real. .
Murdoch noted in his letter that the ADL had honored his father, Rupert Murdoch, with a leadership award. Greenblatt of the ADL responded that the award was given “more than a decade ago, but make it clear to me that today we would not do it and that it does not exempt you, him, the network or his council from failure morality of not taking action against Mr. Carlson. “
A Fox spokesman declined to comment on Monday’s letter from the ADL.