“Fox Corporation shares your values and abhors anti-Semitism, white supremacy and racism of any kind,” Murdoch, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, wrote Sunday. ‘In fact, I fondly remember the ADL that honored my father with your International Leadership Award, and we continue to support your mission.
“As for the ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ segment on April 8, however, we do not respectfully agree,” Murdoch continued in the letter the ADL provided to CNN. “A full review of the gas interview indicates that Mr. Carlson rejected and rejected the replacement theory. As Mr. Carlson himself said during the gas interview: ‘White replacement theory? No, no, that’s a voting right question.'”
In a separate letter, the ADL responded to Murdoch on Monday.
“While I appreciate the sentiment that you and your father continue to support ADL’s mission, the support of Mr. Carlson’s embrace of the ‘great replacement theory’ stands in direct contrast to that mission,” Greenblatt wrote.
“As you noted in your letter, ADL honored your father a decade ago,” Greenblatt continued, “but let me be clear that we would not do it today, and that relieves you, him, the network, or the board thereof. of the moral failure not to oppose Mr. Carlson to act. “
Greenblatt said Carlson’s ‘attempt to dismiss the replacement theory initially’, while endorsing it in the next breath under cover of a voting rights issue, did not give him the free license to invoke a white supremacist troop. ‘
“In fact,” Greenblatt argued, “it’s worse because he uses a straw man – the right to vote – to give a covert endorsement of white supremacist beliefs, while ironically suggesting that it is not really white supremacism. your answer is a ‘full review’ of the interview, it seems the reviewers missed the point here. ‘
Carlson, who appeared Thursday during an immigration section with his friend Mark Steyn, who filled out ET at 7 p.m., called for the big replacement theory.
“Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it,” Carlson said. “Ooh, the white replacement theory.”
“No, no, no,” Carlson insisted. “It’s a voting right question.”
‘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 is trying to replace the current voters, and the voters are now voting for new people. more obedient Third World voters, ”Carlson added. “But they get hysterical because that’s what’s actually happening. Let’s just say it’s true.”
Steyn did not object to Carlson’s comments.
Greenblatt pointed out to Murdoch in his letter that ‘replacement theory is a concept that is discussed almost daily in online forums full of anti-Semitism and racism’ and that Carlson ‘did not inadvertently repeat these points of discussion; he deliberately increased this worn-out racist rhetoric. . “
Greenblatt also highlighted several other cases in which Carlson provoked controversy for his anti-immigrant comments and in which he dismissed the threat of white supremacy.
“In a time of intense polarization, this kind of rhetoric is galvanizing extremists and lighting the fire of violence,” Greenblatt wrote at the end of his letter. “As a news organization with a responsibility to the public and as a corporation with a responsibility to its shareholders, it’s time for you to act.”