Fox Corp stands behind Tucker Carlson after the Anti-Defamation League asked last week the company to fire the opinion host for his defense on the air of the white supremacist theory of ‘big replacement’.
In a letter sent to the civil rights group on Sunday and shared with The Associated Press, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Carlson had “rejected and rejected replacement theory” when he said during the Thursday night segment: “White replacement theory ? No, no, that’s a voting right question. ”
The ADL claims in a reply sent to Murdoch on Monday that Carlson uses white supremacist language, even though he claims he does not.
“Mr Carlson’s attempt to reject this theory first, while endorsing it in the next breath under cover of a voting rights issue, does not give him the free license to invoke a white supremacist trope,” the chief executive wrote. of ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt.
The replacement conspiracy theory believes that people of color replace white people in the West, made possible by Jews and progressive politicians.
During a guest appearance on Thursday on Fox News Primetime, Carlson “adopted a fundamental theory of white supremacy,” the ADL said.
During the show, Carlson said ‘left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter are literally hysterical when you use the term’ substitute ‘when you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current voters who are now voting with new people. , more obedient voters from the Third World. He added that he “has less political power because they are introducing brand new voters.”
The ADL also cited a number of cases in which Carlson has used anti-immigrant language in the past, including immigration because he made the U.S. “poorer and dirtier and more divided,” and questioned whether white supremacy really existed.
Murdoch noted in his letter that the ADL once honored his father, Rupert Murdoch, with a leadership award. The ADL’s Greenblatt replied that the award ” was awarded more than a decade ago, but let me be clear that we would not do it today, and that does not absolve you, him, the network or his board from the moral failure not to take action against mr. Carlson. ”
A Fox spokesman declined to comment on the ADL’s Monday letter.