Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has been even more controversial than usual lately, promoting the racist Replacement Theory on his show and expressing sympathy for the violent mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 — and Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt is calling for Fox News to fire him. During an appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Greenblatt and host Brian Stelter agreed: Carlson is out of control.
A conspiracy theory that is popular among White supremacists and White nationalists, the Replacement Theory claims that liberals and progressives are trying to “replace” Whites with non-Whites by bringing them in from developing countries. Carlson, on his April 8 broadcast, claimed that “the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate” with “new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.”
Stelter acknowledged that it is most unlikely that Fox News will fire Carlson, whose “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has been getting even higher ratings than colleague Sean Hannity’s show. But he stressed that Carlson reached a “new low” by promoting a conspiracy theory associated with White supremacist and White nationalist ideology. Continue reading.