Tucker Carlson Goes All-In on White Supremacy

And by saying “white men don’t fight” dishonorably, he ignores over 500 years of history

Tim Wise
ZORA
Published in
6 min readMay 5, 2023

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Image: Paul Lee, Flickr, Public Domain at request of the creator

At this point, if you refuse to believe Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, you just aren’t paying attention.

From his insistence that non-white immigrants make America dirtier to his cosigning of Great Replacement Theory — the idea that there is some nefarious scheme to replace whites in the U.S. with hordes of brown folks from the global south — there are few tropes popular with the racists on 4Chan to which Tucker hasn’t offered a full-throated endorsement.

And now, thanks to private texts disclosed due to the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against FOX News, we’ve been given a glimpse of how finely-grained Carlson’s racial superiority complex is.

Not to mention his reflexive fascism and bloodlust.

To wit, his comments in the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021 siege at the Capitol, about a video clip in which three pro-Trump white men were, in Carlson’s words, “pounding the living shit” out of an antifascist protester.

Rather than immediately recoil from the brutality of their assault, Carlson confessed that his initial reaction was to cheer for the attackers. Indeed, in the text…

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Tim Wise
ZORA
Writer for

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)