“Fox Corporation shares your values and hates anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism of any kind,” ADL Executive Director Jonathan Greenblatt wrote Sunday. “In fact, I fondly remember the ADL that honored my father with your international leadership award and we continue to support your mission.
“However, as for the April 8 Tucker Carlson Tonight segment, we respectfully disagree,” Murdoch continued in the letter, which the ADL provided to CNN. “A full review of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson denied and rejected the theory of substitution. As Mr. Carlson himself said during the guest interview,” White replacement theory? No, no, that ‘s a question about voting rights. “
In a letter of its own, the ADL responded Monday to Murdoch.
“While I appreciate the feeling that you and your father continue to support the ADL mission, supporting Carlson’s acceptance of the‘ great theory of replacement ’contrasts directly with that mission,” Greenblatt wrote.
“As you pointed out in your letter, ADL honored your father more than a decade ago,” Greenblatt continued, “but let me make it clear that we would not do it today and not absolve him or her network or its board of directors of the moral failure to take action against Mr. Carlson. “
Greenblatt said Carlson’s “attempt to dismiss” the theory of replacement “at first, while at the end of his breath supported him under the guise of a” voting rights issue “does not give him free license to invoking a white supremacist trope “.
“In fact,” Greenblatt argued, “it’s worse, because it uses a straw man (voting rights) to give insufficient endorsement to the beliefs of white supremacism, ironically suggesting that it’s not really white supremacism.” ‘interview, it seems the reviewers lost the essential point here.’
Appearing Thursday during an immigration segment with his friend Mark Steyn, who was filling in at 7pm ET, Carlson invoked the theory of the big substitution.
“Everyone wants to make it a racial issue,” Carlson said. “Ooh, Target Replacement Theory.”
“No, no, no,” Carlson insisted. “This is a question about voting rights.”
“I know 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, voters now voting with new people, more obedient voters than Third World, “Carlson added. “But they get hysterical because that’s what’s really going on. Let’s just say it’s true.”
Steyn did not object to Carlson’s comments.
Greenblatt noted to Murdoch in his letter that “replacement theory is a concept that is discussed almost daily in boiled online forums of anti-Semitism and racism” and that Carlson “did not echo these points by chance. discussion, he consciously intensified this well-worn racist rhetoric. “
Greenblatt also highlighted several other cases in which Carlson has ignited controversy over his comments against immigrants and in which he has rejected the threat of white supremacy.
“In a time of intense polarization, this kind of rhetoric galvanizes extremists and ignites the fire of violence,” Greenblatt wrote at the end of his letter. “As a news organization with responsibility to the public and as a corporation with responsibility to its shareholders, it’s time to act.”