Just yesterday, we reported on the scathing analysis from Mother Jones on the heels of the Buffalo, New York, mass shooting over the weekend — in which Inae Oh so perfectly pointed out that the 18-year-old, race-fueled shooter appeared to gain his motivation from the “great replacement theory.”
This is a notion, popular among racist white supremacists, that touts the unhinged claim that Democrats in the country are attempting to overthrow white voters in the US with Hispanic immigrants and other people of color in an effort to give minorities an electoral advantage. The rhetoric and ideology have been heavily peddled, specifically over the last several months, by none other than Fox New’s Tucker Carlson.
But Tucker is not taking a step back to evaluate his beliefs on the heels of the tragic instance of gun violence that claimed 10 more lives in this nation. Instead, he’s seemingly chomping at the bit to defend his “right” to express his hatred and bigotry.
In a new segment, fresh on the heels of the heinous Buffalo shooting, Carlson was raging at the mere notion that a lot of Americans are seemingly tracing the shooter’s ideals back to many of Tucker’s Fox rants — and his fear that he may one day be unable to be openly racist was more apparent than ever.
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“Within minutes of Saturday’s shooting — before all the bodies of those ten murdered Americans had even been identified by their loved ones — professional Democrats had begun a coordinated campaign to blame those murders on their political opponent,” Tucker declared on his new segment. “They did it!’ they said immediately. ‘Peyton Gendron was the heir to Donald Trump!’ they told us. ‘Trumpism committed mass murder in Buffalo!'”
“And for that reason, it follows logically, we must suspend the First Amendment,” the Fox talking head spewed, falling back on his tried and true scare-mongering tactics.
Carlson went on to claim that the definition of “hate speech” in this nation has devolved into “speech that our leaders hate.”
And then came the quiet part out loud: “Because a mentally ill teenager murdered strangers, you cannot be allowed to express your political views out loud.”
“That is what they are telling you, that is what they’ve wanted to tell you for a long time,” Tucker raged. “But Saturday’s massacre gives the pretext and justification.”
To call this “man” shameless would be an understatement. Pay attention. Tucker Carlson is terrified to his core of the mere notion that he maybe won’t be allowed to be publicly racist anymore.
Mediaite has the clip of Carlson’s segment here.
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