The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has summoned the Fox News host Tucker Carlson
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“Tucker has to go,” the group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, tweeted Friday.
The ADL chief explained that the “Great Replacement” theory “is a white supremacist principle that the white race is endangered by a rising tide of non-whites.”
Greenblatt was referring to Carlson’s performance on “Fox News Primetime,” when the presenter, in conversation with columnist Mark Steyn, presented a theory as to why Democrats are pro-immigration.
“I know the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter are literally going to be hysterical when you use the term ‘replacement’, when you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate,” Carlson said. “But they get hysterical because that’s what actually happens. Let’s just say it. That’s true.”
“I mean, everyone makes it a racial issue. Oh, the, you know, white substitute? No, no, this is a voting issue, “Carlson added later, saying that changes in the population are” watering down the political power “of current registered voters.
@TuckerCarlson: “Replacement Theory” is a white supremacist principle that the white race is endangered by a rising tide of non-whites.
It’s anti-Semitic, racist, and poisonous. It informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh.
Tucker has to go. https://t.co/FSvgNfR1KO
– Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 9, 2021
Fox News declined to comment on Greenblatt’s tweet or the similarities between what Carlson said and past white nationalist theories, other than to point out the host’s comments stressing “this is a voting rights question.”
In addition to Greenblatt’s tweets, the ADL posted and emailed a letter Friday to Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, regarding Carlson’s comments.
“Carlson’s full embrace of white supremacist replacement theory on yesterday’s show and his repeated allusions to racist themes in earlier segments are a bridge too far,” the group wrote. “Given his long track record in racing, we think it’s time for Carlson to leave.”
The group said it is the first time that Carlson has been deposed. The ADL said it had not yet received a response from Fox News.
This isn’t the first time Carlson has come under fire for comments he has made on the network. In 2019, he faced widespread criticism for claiming that the problem of white supremacy in the US was a “hoax”.
Last year, one of the writers dropped out of his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after news broke that he had posted racist, bigotry comments on an online forum under a pseudonym.