“Given his long record of racial slurs, we believe it’s time for Carlson to go,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL.
Carlson, the highly regarded host on Fox News, was sentenced on Thursday night to another Fox conviction for his comments on ‘replacement’.
In the ADL’s subsequent letter Friday, first obtained by CNN Business, Greenblatt accuses Carlson of an “open endorsement of white supremacist ideology.”
Carlson appears with his friend Mark Steyn, who completes ET at 7 p.m. He refers to ‘white replacement theory’, a racist conspiracy theory that proposes that white people be deliberately replaced by immigrants.
“No, no, no,” Carlson said, insisting he did not parrot the theory.
But then he said ‘this is a voting right question. I have less political power because they are introducing a brand new electorate. Why do I have to sit back and accept it? The power I guaranteed as an American with my birth is one man. , one voice, and they dilute it. No, they may not do that. Why do we endure it? ‘
His remarks come in the context of a discussion on how the government treats migrants crossing the southern border – one of the most common topics on Fox.
Moments earlier, Carlson seemed to have predicted that he would unleash indignation: ‘Now,’ he said, ‘I know the leftists and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter are literally hysterical if you use the term’ replacement ‘when you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current voters, the voters who are now voting, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But they get hysterical because that’s what’s actually happening. Let’s just say it: it’s true. ‘
No one is ‘replaced’. Existing voters are not exchanged for the “more obedient” migrants Carlson proposes to him.
But Carlson repeatedly raised this idea in his own program at 8 p.m. In Friday’s letter to Fox, Greenblatt said: “at ADL we believe in dialogue and giving people a chance to redeem themselves, but Carlson’s full embrace of the white theoretical replacement theory on the show yesterday and his repeated allusions to racist themes in recent segments a bridge is too far. ‘
The letter pointed out that ‘replacement theory’ is what underlies the modern white supremacist movement in America. ‘
The theory was aired on U.S. television screens when men marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, saying, “Jews will not replace us” and “you will not replace us.”
And the theory was cited by racist mass murderers, including the man who attacked a Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019.
“This is not a legitimate political discourse,” Greenblatt wrote to Scott.
A Scott spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the call from the ADL.
Jonathan Chait, who wrote for New York Magazine, said Carlson had been appealing to racists “for years with a nod and nod to their paranoid themes”, and “last night his embrace of white supremacy” crossed an important and dangerous new threshold. . “
But if history is a guideline, Fox will take no action. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch have ignored past criticism of Carlson. And they’d tripled Carlson’s comment mark, including a recent expansion of Carlson content to the Fox Nation streaming service.