The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups blew up Tucker Carlson, Fox News presenter, on Friday morning after the TV speaker presented a passionate defense of the racist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory the night before.
The theory is a “white supremacist premise that the white race is endangered by an increasing tide of non-whites”, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted Friday morning, pointing out that the concept also served as motivation for several notable mass murders. .
‘It is anti-Semitic, racist and toxic. It informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh, ‘the ADL leader wrote, adding an appeal to the TV star’s broadcast:’ Tucker must go. ‘
Later on Friday, the ADL sent a letter to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott in which other examples of anti-Semitic Carlson comments appeared. “We believe in dialogue and giving people a chance to save themselves, but Carlson’s full embrace of the white supremacist replacement theory in the show yesterday and his repeated allusions to racist themes in recent segments are a bridge too far,” wrote the organization.
During a Thursday night guest appearance on Fox News Primetime, apparently to promote his new day program on the streaming service Fox Nation, Carlson inevitably started talking about one of his favorite topics: immigration.
Talk to host Mark Steyn, who previously nominated the white supremacist novel The camp of the saints, Carlson defended the defense of those who believe the white race is threatened by immigrants and replaced and exterminated minorities.
‘Now, I know that leftists and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter are literally hysterical when you use the term’ replacement ‘, if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current voters, then the voters are now voting with new votes. people, more obedient voters from the Third World, ”the Fox News star declared. “But they get hysterical because that’s actually what’s happening. Let’s just say that. It’s true.”
In addition, you add that you ‘dilute the political power of the people in’ one country ‘if’ you change the population ‘, Carlson said that every time he’ introduces a new voter, ‘he is released as a current voter word ‘. After complaining that ‘everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it’, the Fox host again defended the ‘white replacement theory’.
‘No, no, that’s a voting right question. “I have less political power because they are introducing brand new voters,” he said. ‘Why do I have to sit back and take it? The power I guarantee as an American at birth is one man, one voice, and they dilute it. No, they may not do that. Why do we endure it? ‘
“It is appalling that Fox News continues to empower Tucker Carlson and other white nationalist ideologues to spread this kind of hateful poison in the homes of tens of millions of Americans,” Logan Bayroff, VP of communications for J Street, said in a statement to The Street. Daily Beast. The conspiracy theory ‘Big Replacement’ is not just rhetoric – it is the racist, anti-Semitic propaganda that helped incite deadly violence against American Jews, Muslims, immigrants and other vulnerable minorities. Every time this white supremacist hatred is so intensified, the threat of future attacks on our communities grows. ”
The ‘big replacement’ theory is a xenophobic and anti-Semitic conspiracy. Racist extremists like Tucker will only intensify this as climate change increasingly drives disruption and migration, ” Jewish progressive group If Not Now added in a tweeted statement. “The fight for Jewish security is the fight for migrant and climate justice.”
A Fox News spokesman at The Daily Beast insisted that Carlson somehow actually rejected the theory, referring to the host’s comments where he called it a ‘voting rights issue’.
As Greenblatt noted, this exact theory – that a shadowy elite is deliberately eradicating the white voice – has been the inspiration for some of the most gruesome and deadly mass shootings of recent years.
The racist killers behind the massacres in El Paso and Christchurch, for example, both left behind manifestos in which they wrote extensively about the theory. The shooter responsible for the murder of 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh openly believed that George Soros and Jewish humanitarian aid groups sent Central American migrants (‘invaders’, as he called them) to the United States. States would bring about ‘kill our people,’ “said the white race.
The ADL’s call to oust Carlson is nothing new to the Fox News host, who has long called for condemnation and controversy for racist and xenophobic comments. His program lost most of its prominent advertisers after declaring in late 2018 that immigrants were making the United States ‘poorer and dirtier’.
Carlson also sparked widespread reactions and additional advertising boycotts for claiming white supremacy was a ‘joke’, just three days after the El Paso shooter killed 22 people for fear of a ‘Spanish invasion’. ; and to warn Fox News viewers that the “mob” of Black Lives Matter “will come for you.”