NYT article says Tucker Carlson "the most racist show in the history of cable news"

[Edge-]

If you're going for his stuff, it does look a lot like a SWEDEN IS THE MOST ANTISEMITIC COUNTRY IN THE WEST and SWEDEN'S INSTITUTIONS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY ANTISEMITIC, and by the way, TV4 broadcaster has a disturbing trend in his news stories...

So why not make a thread about it?

[unfilteredJW]

But what about this guy from Sweden?!?!

Fucking clowns.

[beanman12345]

So much copium lol. Like there is even anything to be defensive about. Fox and racism are synonymous, every knows it.

[downnola]

Not sure what your point is.

America is a racist shit hole but Europe ain't much better.

If you don't think racism is also a problem in Europe or isn't as sinister, then you're just naive. I'm not downplaying racism in the United States but I'm just not a fan of euros acting like they're saints on the matter. It's even more ridiculous to argue over when you realize that America's brand of rotten bigotry is a direct consequence of European colonialism that lingers until this day here and overseas.

[Breccia]

NYT has won over 100 Pulitzer prize awards, more than literally any other newspaper iirc. your ridiculous bias is showing

Let's also not forget, anyone saying "NYTimes is bogus, I prefer FOX News" is admitting they're looking for a less reliable, less balanced, less honest source. NYTimes is closer to the center, and more factually accurate, than FOX News. NYTimes got called out for a few OP EDs, FOX News was pushing death panels.

[Ivanstone]

NYT has won over 100 Pulitzer prize awards, more than literally any other newspaper iirc. your ridiculous bias is showing

By way of comparison Fox News has won zero Peabody awards.

Its possible to be highly partisan and still provide reasonable journalism. Are their corrupt shitbags on the left or centre? Yes. Quite a number of them. Does Fox News actually do investigative journalism to expose them? Rarely, if ever. Its easier to make shit up.

[Edge-]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/po..._share_twitter

Want a concrete example of the danger of Tucker Carlson mainstreaming extreme-right wing conspiracy theories like the "Great Replacement"? Dovetail conspiracies!

With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about 1 in 3 U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

About 3 in 10 also worry that more immigration is causing U.S.-born Americans to lose their economic, political and cultural influence, according to a poll by the Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to fear a loss of influence because of immigration, 36% to 27%.

Those views mirror swelling anti-immigrant sentiment espoused on social media and cable TV, with conservative commentators like Tucker Carlson exploiting fears that new arrivals could undermine the native-born population.

In their most extreme manifestation, those increasingly public views in the U.S. and Europe tap into a decades-old conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement,” a false claim that native-born populations are being overrun by nonwhite immigrants who are eroding, and eventually will erase, their culture and values. The once-taboo term became the mantra of one conservative candidate in the recent French presidential election.

“I very much believe that the Democrats — from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, all the way down — want to get the illegal immigrants in here and give them voting rights immediately,” said Sally Gansz, 80. Actually, only U.S. citizens can vote in state and federal elections, and attaining citizenship typically takes years.

A white Republican, Gansz has lived her whole life in Trinidad, Colo., where about half of the population of 8,300 identifies as Hispanic, most with roots going back centuries to the region’s Spanish settlers.

“Isn’t it obvious that I watch Fox?” quipped Gansz, who said she watches the conservative channel almost daily, including the prime-time Fox News Channel program “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a major proponent of those ideas.

Yeah, Democrats are included at disturbingly high numbers as well.

What's most interesting to me is the "33%" number, which keeps popping up when it comes to polls on the worst, most hateful, most nonsensical shit like this.

The constant "fear of immigrants" is still fuckin weird to me given that we're literally a nation of immigrants unless you're native american.

[Kaleredar]

The constant "fear of immigrants" is still fuckin weird to me given that we're literally a nation of immigrants unless you're native american.

Well now to be fair, the native americans had a good reason to fear a specific type of immigrants.


But anti-immigrant hatred is nothing new to the united states. It's always been the calling card of some backwards party telling people to be afraid of the Chinese, or the jews, or the italians, or the irish, or the Japanese. They all end up on the wrong side of history, just like the "fear the mexicans" crowd will.

[szechuan]

Want a concrete example of the danger of Tucker Carlson mainstreaming extreme-right wing conspiracy theories like the "Great Replacement"? Dovetail conspiracies!

White Supremacist in Buffalo kills 10 people with a manifesto writing about the "Great Replacement".

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...event/3687999/

[postman1782]

White Supremacist in Buffalo kills 10 people with a manifesto writing about the "Great Replacement".

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...event/3687999/

He also live streamed it.

[beanman12345]

Thank God nobody takes Tucker seriously... Oh, wait...

And nothing will change for him.

It's just history repeating itself. Glenn Becks inspired Tides foundation shooting spree, Bill O'Reilly inspired Dr George Tiller assassination. Won't be the last time either.

[Edge-]

White Supremacist in Buffalo kills 10 people with a manifesto writing about the "Great Replacement".

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...event/3687999/

I do wonder if he gave senpai Tucker a shoutout in his manifesto.

[Smitzelplix]

I do wonder if he gave senpai Tucker a shoutout in his manifesto.

I don't know if he gave a direct shoutout to Tucker, but he certainly came close.

one of these passages is from a book by @TuckerCarlson
and the other is from the manifesto of the white supremacist shooter who killed 10 people today

https://twitter.com/curaffairs/statu...cigTqBK5IbHNOA

[Edge-]

I don't know if he gave a direct shoutout to Tucker, but he certainly came close.



https://twitter.com/curaffairs/statu...cigTqBK5IbHNOA

Eh, that's just Carlson repeating the original white supremacist rhetoric with only the slightest of sanitization. I mean, he deleted all the racial slurs at least.

[eschatological]

I live 1.2 miles from the grocery store where 10 people were slaughtered today. A grocery store I've been shopping in (though it's not my regular store).

The dude drove from 3 hours away, rural bumfuck country, where he's been radicalized by rightwing conspiracies, to the "most black zip code" in NY state (which...may be true, IDK, this guy obviously isn't a fucking stellar fact checker), to kill my neighbors.

It's been an exhausting day.

[Elegiac]

I don't know if he gave a direct shoutout to Tucker, but he certainly came close.

https://twitter.com/curaffairs/statu...cigTqBK5IbHNOA

But remember guys, according to people like tehdang we can't know that Carlson is a racist despite him consistently verbalizing the same beliefs as violent racists.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

I don't watch Fox News but what I've seen from his clips he doesn't seem racist. He seems very far conservative is all and a bit ignorant there. Are you confusing him with Sean Hannity because he is a racist.

[postman1782]

I don't watch Fox News but what I've seen from his clips he doesn't seem racist. He seems very far conservative is all and a bit ignorant there. Are you confusing him with Sean Hannity because he is a racist.

You have to be fucking delusional. He openly touts the "great replacement" theory, which is straight out of KKK and Nazi bullshit. Both Hannity and Tucker are racist.

[Fugus]

I don't watch Fox News but what I've seen from his clips he doesn't seem racist. He seems very far conservative is all and a bit ignorant there. Are you confusing him with Sean Hannity because he is a racist.

I don't watch Fox either, but I have seen him on his great replacement theory others have mentioned as well as many examples of how he will paint a black person as a monster, lazy or other negative then another instance of the exact same thing with a white person whom he will paint as the victim and so on.

They have an entire episode of Last Week Tonight devoted to him and they source the hell out of their stuff.

[Elegiac]

I don't watch Fox News but what I've seen from his clips he doesn't seem racist. He seems very far conservative is all and a bit ignorant there. Are you confusing him with Sean Hannity because he is a racist.

Consistently attacking nonwhite immigrants is pretty stock standard racism, habibi.

You have to be fucking delusional. He openly touts the "great replacement" theory, which is straight out of KKK and Nazi bullshit. Both Hannity and Tucker are racist.

Oh, he's not delusional. Look at the active qualifier:

he doesn't seem racist

The implication being that he himself is so stepped in reactionary ideology that he's not capable of recognizing how toxic Carlson's viewpoints actually are.