- Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, sent Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News, a letter asking for Tucker Carlson to be fired.
- On Thursday, Carlson openly embraced the white supremacist Great Replacement theory.
- According to racist theory, masses of foreigners invade the US to strip white Americans of political power.
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The Anti-Defamation League demanded that Tucker Carlson be fired a day after the Fox News host openly embraced the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
“Given his long record of racial riots, we believe it’s time for Carlson to go,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.
Carlson claimed Thursday night that Democrats are importing a brand new electorate of “Third World” immigrants to “dilute” the political power of Americans.
He referred to the replacement theory, a well-known racist philosophy that has inspired racist violence and mass murder in the U.S. and around the world for years, and assumes that white, Western populations have a demographic ticking clock in multicultural societies.
A Fox News spokesman told Insider that Carlson was arguing over voting rights.
‘I know that leftists and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter are literally hysterical when you use the term’ replacement ‘when you suggest that the Democratic Party try to replace the current voters – the voters who are voting now – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World, ”Carlson told his audience of millions of people. “But they get hysterical because it actually is. Let’s just say it. It is true.’
The letter sent by the ADL was first reported by CNN Business. In it, Greenblatt condemns Carlson’s ‘open end endorsement of white supremacist ideology’.
“This is not a legitimate political discourse,” Greenblatt wrote in a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, according to CNN.
Demonization of immigrants is a recurring theme in Carlson’s show, with the host once saying that immigrants make the country ‘dirtier’.
In recent years, reference has been made to the replacement theory during the white supremacy in Charlottesville in 2017, where extremist slogans such as “Jews will not replace us” shouted and killed the peaceful protester Heather Heyer, and the El Paso Walmart massacre in 2019, where a white-armed man deliberately targeted mainly Latino victims.