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06-06-2020, 05:38 PM | #1 | |||
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many victims have died in the riots, Tucker remembers those and those injured, maimed and financially ruined.
were you aware of this? |
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06-06-2020, 05:44 PM | #2 | |||
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https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ed-states-race
Guess who said it: Tucker Carlson or a far-right shooter The Fox New host’s nightly diatribes are making the US an ever more terrifying place for immigrants and people of color It’s not surprising Tucker Carlson doesn’t think white supremacy is a threat to the United States. It’s easy not to notice a problem when the problem is you. Speaking on his show, Carlson called widespread racism a “hoax” and said: “Just like the Russia hoax, it’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.” Carlson encouraged viewers not to think about racism, saying that “every minute you’re angry about race is a minute you’re not thinking about class, which is of course the real divide in this country”. It’s not surprising Tucker Carlson doesn’t think white supremacy is a threat to the United States. It’s easy not to notice a problem when the problem is you. Speaking on his show, Carlson called widespread racism a “hoax” and said: “Just like the Russia hoax, it’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.” Carlson encouraged viewers not to think about racism, saying that “every minute you’re angry about race is a minute you’re not thinking about class, which is of course the real divide in this country”. Quote:
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Carlson has made it clear that he thinks having more members of non-white racial groups is bad. In his book he writes: Quote:
Carlson has developed a dangerous ideological brew that combines economic populism with white nationalism. (A kind of “national socialism”, if you will.) Notice that in his original comments, he talks about the need to focus on “class”. He comments that “workers of all races” have more in common with each other than they do with the rich, and believes talk of white supremacy is designed to keep them from getting “unauthorized ideas about economics”. In fact, on economic issues Carlson often sounds very close to Berne Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, condemning giant predatory companies like Amazon and skewering free-market dogma. Of course, as a leftist, I think Carlson is right about that part, and when he says that workers have more in common with each other than with the boss, he could be quoting a pamphlet from the Wobblies. But that’s precisely why his anti-immigrant material is so wrong and toxic. The solution to class inequality is for workers to band together. Yet Carlson speaks of an “invasion” in which poor Hispanics are coming for the jobs of slightly-less-poor whites, who must preserve their “ethnic majority”. He says that it’s the “elites” who want to divide the working class, then tells people to be scared of their Muslim neighbors. If class is “the real divide in this country” then why is he also claiming that “diversity” is tearing us apart? Carlson may not even notice what he is doing, or realize that he has a “white nationalist” viewpoint. That’s, in part, because he accepts the definition of racism as “racial hatred”. Instead, we should define it as valuing people of different races differently, and accepting a racial hierarchy of wealth and power as natural. If you care about what happens to white auto workers, but don’t care about what happens to Guatemalans or Somalis, that’s racism. Carlson thinks about the experience of the white person with an immigrant neighbor, but not about that of the immigrant neighbor. Carlson believes that white supremacy isn’t a problem because “The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.” It’s true that outright neo-Nazi groups are fringe. But if racial “hatred” is marginal, acceptance of racial hierarchy is ubiquitous. And the people who believe in that don’t need neo-Nazi groups, because they’ve got Fox News. We should hesitate to directly blame particular killings on the media. After all, an unstable person can pick up bad ideas from anywhere. But when people like Carlson say that diversity is destabilizing the country, and there is an active invasion that will wipe out “our” people’s culture, they make armed attacks sound rationally justified. Even on the assumption that violent white supremacy remains marginal for the moment, the more Carlson persuades people of his anti-immigrant talking points, the more people may be tempted to reach for a gun to “solve the problem” themselves. I, too, wish we could focus on economic divides, but we can’t so long as Carlson’s nightly diatribes are making the United States an ever more terrifying place for immigrants and people of color.
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06-06-2020, 05:54 PM | #3 | |||
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Then more people should talk about the victims of the riots so we don't have to turn to such awful people to hear about them
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06-06-2020, 06:01 PM | #4 | |||
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06-06-2020, 06:03 PM | #5 | |||
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Oh no, I'm English
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06-06-2020, 06:05 PM | #6 | |||
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06-06-2020, 06:10 PM | #7 | |||
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It's not all I can do, but it is my preferred coping mechanism, yes.
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06-06-2020, 05:46 PM | #8 | |||
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if only we got fox news back on sky
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