Conservative Fox Television host Tucker Carlson shocked the world on Tuesday by calling white supremacy a hoax!
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According to Carson, the country’s white supremacy problem “is a hoax. Just like the Russia hoax. It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.” Yes, despite the shooting deaths this past weekend by an avowed white supremacist, Carlson still downplayed the threat and said: “the whole thing is a lie.” He then asserted that white supremacy is “actually not a real problem in America,” and that “The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.”
As if that wasn’t enough, fellow conservative Jonah Goldberg rushed to Carlson’s aide and added on Twitter: “If Trump apes these talking points, it’ll be awful for the country and devastating for Trump’s presidency.”
WOW!
In case these Fox News flunkies have been living on the dark side of the moon for the past week, 31 people were shot and killed by white nationalists on just this past weekend alone. The El Paso shooter, Patrick Crusius, wrote a detailed manifesto describing his love for Donald Trump and hate for Mexicans and immigrants before driving 650 miles to kill them. Additionally, hate crimes have risen dramatically since the start of the Donald Trump era. So, to call white supremacy in America a “hoax” instead of acknowledging it as the real problem that it is is either blind ignorance or chosen ignorance.
Carlson’s words are straight out of the Donald Trump playbook. Just like ‘The Donald’ did when every single US intelligence agency confirmed Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Trump denied, denied, denied then called it all a “hoax” and claimed it never happened. He did the same with climate change and continues to claim every negative news story written about him is “fake news.” Now, that’s exactly what Tucker Carlson is doing.
Interestingly, this is also not the first time a national tragedy has been referred to as fake by those hoping to protect their own ideology. In 2012, members of the NRA called the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax — even going so far as to say the 27 children killed were “crisis actors.”
White supremacy is already a danger in America just by itself. To deny its existence — particularly when a white supremacist writes about it then specifically acts on it — is beyond foolish and a threat to national security.
Why prop up white supremacy by turning a blind eye and ignoring its existence? Unless, of course, that’s exactly what Tucker Carlson and his Fox News friends are purposely trying to do!
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Now see here DJ, you’re really hindering my ability to get any real work done in a timely fashion on my job with these informative posts..lol Seriously, I laugh (a little) to keep from crying. Tucker Carlson is what passes for a Repub “Conservative intellectual.” And while Tucker is no dummy he sold whatever little credibility he actually had, for 30 pieces of gold, a looong time ago, Being a “bandwagoning right-wing hack” pays better. To say nothing of the perks that come with Pretending to be a loyalist to a Narcissistic, serial lying, 5X draft dodging, Nitwit, who struts around, all day Everyday, tweeting and Pretending to be president. Btw- I’m sure Tuck’s White supremacists brethren appreciate him looking out for the good of the nation….the Aryan nation. Again, I kid. The truth is, Tuck will say Anything, no matter how absurdly disingenuous, in service to his president AND… Read more »