Tucker Carlson Refuses to Dismiss White Supremacy
As a woman of color who’s appeared on his show, I fully understand why
You could say Tucker Carlson and controversy are well acquainted, but the racist and sexist content the Fox News anchor spews on his cable news show is apparently getting too, well, racist and sexist even for his network’s top brass.
To quickly recap, because there’s a lot of material in Carlson’s trove of racism and misogyny, he has landed himself in hot water in the past for saying everything from immigrants make America “poorer and dirtier,” and stating women are “extremely primitive” and “just need to be quiet” to his latest controversy: calling White supremacy in America a “hoax.”
Despite this statement being factually incorrect, it is also incredibly irresponsible of Carlson to say this in the wake of the El Paso mass shooting, which largely targeted Hispanic and Latino communities. Carlson stated on his show that like the “Russia hoax,” White supremacy was a conspiracy used to divide the U.S., and keep a hold on power. “It’s actually not a real problem in America,” Carlson told his viewers.
Carlson does not really tell the truth about much on his show, but he knows his comments on White supremacy in America are false, especially in relation to the killings that…
