“Fox Corporation shares your values and abhors anti-Semitism, white supremacy and racism of any kind,” Murdoch wrote on Sunday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. In fact, I fondly remember the ADL that honored my father with your International Leadership Award, and we continue to support your mission.
“However, regarding the segment of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on April 8, we respectfully disagree,” Murdoch continued in the letter that the ADL delivered to CNN. “A full discussion of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson disapproved and rejected the replacement theory. As Mr. Carlson himself said during the guest interview,” White replacement theory? No, no, this is a right to vote question. ” ‘
In its own letter, the ADL responded to Murdoch on Monday.
While I appreciate the feeling that you and your father continue to support ADL’s mission, supporting Mr. Carlson’s embrace of the ‘great replacement theory’ contrasts sharply with that mission, ” Greenblatt wrote.
“As you noted in your letter, ADL honored your father more than a decade ago,” Greenblatt continued, “but let me be clear that we wouldn’t do that today, and it doesn’t fire you, him, the network, or its board. of the moral failure of not taking action against Mr. Carlson. “
Greenblatt said Carlson’s “attempt to first” reject the replacement theory, “giving her approval under the cover of ‘a voting rights issue’ in the next breath does not give him a free license to invoke a white supremacist trope.”
“In fact,” argued Greenblatt, “it’s worse because he uses a straw man – the right to vote – to give a sneaky endorsement of white supremacist beliefs, while ironically suggesting that it’s not really white supremacy. answer refers to a ‘full review’. “of the interview, it seems the reviewers missed the essential point here.”
Carlson appeared during a segment on immigration with his friend Mark Steyn on Thursday, which came in at 7 p.m. ET, invoking the great replacement theory.
“Everyone wants to make it a racial issue,” said Carlson. “Ooh, the white replacement theory.”
“No, no, no,” Carlson insisted. “This is a voting rights question.”
“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, the voters now voting, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World, “added Carlson.” But they’re getting hysterical because that’s what actually happens. Let’s just say it, that’s true. “
Steyn did not object to Carlson’s comments.
Greenblatt pointed out to Murdoch in his letter that “replacement theory is a concept discussed almost daily in online forums brimming with anti-Semitism and racism” and that Carlson “did not accidentally echo these points of discussion; he deliberately escalated this worn-out racist rhetoric. . “
Greenblatt also highlighted several other instances where Carlson has sparked controversy over his anti-immigrant remarks and in which he dismissed the threat of white supremacy.
“At a time of intense polarization, this kind of rhetoric excites extremists and ignites the fires of violence,” Greenblatt wrote at the end of his letter. “As a news organization with a responsibility to the public and as a company with a responsibility to its shareholders, it is time for you to act.”