The Anti-Defamation League has asked Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson to resign in an open letter published on Friday, accusing him of “” passionately defending white supremacist “big replacement theory”. gave.
Mr. Carlson referred to an appearance on Fox News on Thursday, describing the term ‘white replacement theory’, which is a racist conspiracy theory popular in right-wing circles, while arguing that the Democratic Party is’ trying to replacing voters, the voters now agree with new people, more obedient voters, from the third world. He added that naturalized citizens “dilute” the political power of him and other Americans.
“Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it, ‘Ooh, the white replacement theory,'” he said. Carlson continued. ‘No, no, no, it’s a voting question. I have less political power because they are introducing a brand new voter. Why do I have to sit back and take it? The power I have as an American, guaranteed at birth, is one man, one voice. And they dilute it. ‘
The ADL letter, signed by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Jewish Advocate Group, states that the language of Mr. Carlson “was not just a whistleblower for racists, it was a bullhorn.”
“This is not a legitimate political discourse,” read the letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott. ‘This is dangerous racial slurs, extreme rhetoric. And yet, unfortunately, it is the culmination of a pattern of increasingly divisive rhetoric that Carlson has used over the past few years. ‘
Asked on Friday, a Fox News representative declined to comment except to emphasize Carlson’s remarks saying the matter was a voting issue.
Mr. Carlson had earlier claimed that white supremacy was a ‘joke’, and that prominent companies had distanced themselves from his performance last summer after comments he made about Black Lives Matter protests.
“It can be a lot of things, this moment we are experiencing,” Carlson said at the time. ‘But it’s definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come to you. And at this rate they will.
The “replacement theory” is based on the idea that white women do not have enough children and that declining birth rates will lead to white people being replaced by non-white people around the world.
In an analysis published this week, it was found that there are links between the theory and those arrested in connection with the storm on the Capitol on 6 January.
“You see a general pattern in the Capitol insurgents,” said Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “They are mainly whites from the middle class to the upper middle class who are worried that as social changes take place around them, they will see a decrease in their status in the future.”