Posted on Apr 12, 2021
Tucker Carlson faces calls to resign for white supremacist ‘replacement’ theory
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Fox News is facing growing pressure from the Anti-Defamation League and other anti-hate groups calling for Tucker Carlson’s removal from the network, after a segment on his nightly programme invoked the white supremacist “great replacement” theory as he argued that immigrants entering the US would “dilute the political power” of Americans.
During an appearance on CNN on Sunday, ADL executive director Jonathan Greenblatt criticised the network and its Murdoch family ownership for failing to act, urging that “Tucker has got to go.”
“I think we’ve really crossed a new threshold when a major news network dismisses this or pretends like it isn’t important,” Mr Greenblatt said. “This has deadly significance.”
On Fox, Mr Carlson sought to argue that immigration is a voting rights issue – dismissing the sweeping restrictions on ballot access under consideration in state legislatures across the US, and instead claiming he is the one who is “disenfranchised” by new people entering the electorate.
During an appearance on CNN on Sunday, ADL executive director Jonathan Greenblatt criticised the network and its Murdoch family ownership for failing to act, urging that “Tucker has got to go.”
“I think we’ve really crossed a new threshold when a major news network dismisses this or pretends like it isn’t important,” Mr Greenblatt said. “This has deadly significance.”
On Fox, Mr Carlson sought to argue that immigration is a voting rights issue – dismissing the sweeping restrictions on ballot access under consideration in state legislatures across the US, and instead claiming he is the one who is “disenfranchised” by new people entering the electorate.
Tucker Carlson faces calls to resign for white supremacist ‘replacement’ theory
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IF HR1 passes, it is a SERIOUS problem. Many states now provide DLs to illegal immigrants - and HR1 requires automatic voter enrollment with issuance of a DL.
The POTENTIAL for a massive swell of illegal immigrants to the voter roles is huge. Now... I have to assume that responsible states will put in measures to prevent illegal immigrants from being added to the voter roles. HR1 does define it as automatic registration of "eligible voters," so I will admit that this is very much a POTENTIAL problem, rather than an ACTUAL problem (especially since HR1 isn't law, yet). But *if* (and yes, it is a big "if") the problem comes to reality, the SCOPE of the problem is nation-altering.
The POTENTIAL for a massive swell of illegal immigrants to the voter roles is huge. Now... I have to assume that responsible states will put in measures to prevent illegal immigrants from being added to the voter roles. HR1 does define it as automatic registration of "eligible voters," so I will admit that this is very much a POTENTIAL problem, rather than an ACTUAL problem (especially since HR1 isn't law, yet). But *if* (and yes, it is a big "if") the problem comes to reality, the SCOPE of the problem is nation-altering.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Tucker Carlson is facing calls to resign after he appeared to promote the infamous “replacement theory” popular with white supremacists.
“I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” Carlson said during a discussion of immigration on Fox News Primetime on Thursday.
“But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually!” he exclaimed. “Let’s just say it, that’s true!”
Carlson framed the topic not as a racial issue, but as a “voting rights question.”
“If you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live there,” he went on. “So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter.”
The term “replacement” has a dark history. A right-wing conspiracy theory known as the “replacement theory” or “The Great Replacement” holds that birth rates among white people are too low, and that people of colour are gradually “replacing” their share of the world’s population. The idea is popular with white supremacist groups around the world, including in the United States.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was quick to point that out on Twitter.
“‘Replacement theory’ is a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites,” Mr Greenblatt wrote. “It is antisemitic, racist and toxic. It has informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh. Tucker must go.”
The theory has repeatedly turned up in mass shooters’ manifestos. The man who massacred 50 people at a pair of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, penned an essay before the attack entitled “The Great Replacement.” Shortly before the shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed 23 people, police say the suspected shooter posted an online rant about “ethnic replacement.”
The phrase was also used by the white nationalists who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 – the ones whom Donald Trump infamously called “very fine people” – who chanted “You will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.”...
..."Tucker Carlson is facing calls to resign after he appeared to promote the infamous “replacement theory” popular with white supremacists.
“I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” Carlson said during a discussion of immigration on Fox News Primetime on Thursday.
“But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually!” he exclaimed. “Let’s just say it, that’s true!”
Carlson framed the topic not as a racial issue, but as a “voting rights question.”
“If you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live there,” he went on. “So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter.”
The term “replacement” has a dark history. A right-wing conspiracy theory known as the “replacement theory” or “The Great Replacement” holds that birth rates among white people are too low, and that people of colour are gradually “replacing” their share of the world’s population. The idea is popular with white supremacist groups around the world, including in the United States.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was quick to point that out on Twitter.
“‘Replacement theory’ is a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites,” Mr Greenblatt wrote. “It is antisemitic, racist and toxic. It has informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh. Tucker must go.”
The theory has repeatedly turned up in mass shooters’ manifestos. The man who massacred 50 people at a pair of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, penned an essay before the attack entitled “The Great Replacement.” Shortly before the shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed 23 people, police say the suspected shooter posted an online rant about “ethnic replacement.”
The phrase was also used by the white nationalists who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 – the ones whom Donald Trump infamously called “very fine people” – who chanted “You will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.”...
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