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Apr 11, 2021 · 2019. By Charles M. Blow. Opinion Columnist. On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson caused an uproar by promoting the racist, anti-Semitic, patriarchal and conspiratorial “white replacement ...
Apr 25, 2023 · Many of the false narratives Carlson promoted were part of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, the racist fiction that nonwhite people are being brought into the U.S. to replace white voters.
Apr 9, 2021 · Fox News host Tucker Carlson endorsed the white supremacist "Great Replacement" theory during his Thursday night program. He claimed Democrats are "importing a brand new electorate" of "Third ...
- Eliza Relman
- What Is The ‘Great Replacement Theory?’
- What Is This Conspiracy Theory’s Origins?
- Who Are Its adherents?
- Is The Theory Making Wider Inroads?
- Who’s Talking Up This Theory?
Simply put, the conspiracy theory says there’s a plot to diminish the influence of white people. Believers say this goal is being achieved both through the immigration of nonwhite people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than other popu...
How long has racism existed? Broadly speaking, the roots of this “theory” are that deep. In the U.S., you can point to efforts to intimidate and discourage Black people from voting — or, in antagonists’ view, “replacing” white voters at the polls — that date to the Reconstruction era, after the 15th Amendment made clear suffrage couldn’t be restric...
To some of the more extreme believers, certain white supremacist mass killers — at a Norway summer camp in 2011, two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques in 2019, a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 — are considered saints, Pitcavage says. Those “accelerationist white supremacists” believe small socie...
While more virulent forms of racism are widely abhorred, experts are concerned about extreme views nonetheless becoming mainstream. In a poll released last week, The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 1 in 3 Americans believe an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for elec...
In particular, Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most popular personality, has pushed false views that are more easily embraced by some white people who are concerned about a loss of their political and social power. “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest the De...
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- David Bauder
Apr 15, 2021 · Here’s Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on April 8 making the exact same argument: ... which is alternatively known as “White replacement theory” or simply “replacement theory.” It’s long ...
May 19, 2022 · Fox News host Tucker Carlson has repeatedly invoked the “great replacement theory” on his show, platforming a racist and antisemitic conspiracy theory that has inspired several mass shootings ...
