Tucker Carlson takes off his hood
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Since the early days of his tenure as a Fox prime-time host, Tucker Carlson’s unabashed championing of white grievances earned him the accolades of neo-Nazis, who praised him as a “one man gas chamber” and complimented the way he “lampshad[ed] Jews on national television.” While Carlson claims to have nothing in common with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, he constantly echoes their talking points on his show and was very reluctant to condemn white supremacists following their deadly 2017 demonstration in Charlottesville, VA. In fact, Carlson’s racist roots can be traced back more than a decade.
Here’s a timeline of the public devolution of Tucker Carlson’s thinly veiled racism into full-throated white supremacy (this list will be continually updated):
July 6, 2007: Carlson said President Barack Obama “sounds like a pothead.” During his tenure as a host on MSNBC, Carlson discussed a speech then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) gave during his first presidential campaign, asking, “How high is this guy?” and if “he always talks between bong hits.”
August 24, 2007: Carlson called the NAACP "a sad joke that should be shut down.” Carlson discussed former NFL player Michael Vick’s guilty plea to dogfighting charges and asserted that the NAACP was defending Vick. Carlson called the organization “a sad joke that should be shut down, I think, immediately for the sake of everybody.”
This post was originally posted on October 28, 2018; it was last updated on May 21, 2019.
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In 1979, when Tucker was 10 years old, his father married Patricia Caroline Swanson. An heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune, Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson, as well as the granddaughter of Carl A. Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.
Nobody else would hire him, but he suits their purposes just fine.
That segment at the end about western cultural supremacy was very revealing of one severe intellectual perversion underlying his white nationalism.
Carlson argued not for advanced western culture as he insisted but against. In casting the world in us-versus-them, white superiority terms, he's pushing the genetically-wired fearful, suspicious attitudes toward "people on the other side of the river" that ruled all the way back to the times we descended from trees.
In the Europe he identifies with, enlightened thinking and culture advanced far beyond rule by fear reactions toward "others" centuries ago. But he's apparently one of many born left behind and is actually fighting to de-advance the dominant culture of our western liberal democracy. But never admit it.
No wonder what comes out of their mouths is such a hostile, irrational, and profoundly dishonest mess.
