It's The End Of Whites In The USA: Trump's Afghan Refugees Will Replace You

Tucker Carlson embraces white-supremacist 'replacement' conspiracy theory, 
claiming Democrats are 'importing' immigrants to 'dilute' American voters
Eliza Relman
Apr 9, 2021, 3:17 PM
Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Fox News host Tucker Carlson Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    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 
World" immigrants to "dilute" Americans' political power. 
    Human rights advocates and other critics denounced Carlson's comments 
as an explicit embrace of white nationalism.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson, one of the most influential voices on the 
political right, explicitly endorsed the white supremacist "Great 
Replacement" theory during his Thursday night program.

Carlson argued that Democratic lawmakers are "importing a brand new 
electorate" of "Third World" immigrants to "dilute" Americans' political 
power by adding more voters to the rolls. He described his argument as the 
so-called replacement theory, which is a core belief of white supremacists 
that has motivated racist violence and mass murder in the US and around 
the world. 

"I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become 
literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement,' if you suggest 
that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate — 
the voters now casting ballots — with new people, more obedient voters 
from the Third World," Carlson told his audience, which is among the 
largest in cable news. "But they become hysterical because that's what's 
happening, actually. Let's just say it. That's true."

Carlson argued that his comments aren't racialized, despite the fact that 
the vast majority of the conservative voters he's defending are white and 
the immigrants he's demonizing are largely people of color. The Fox host 
is making his argument in the context of Democratic efforts to create 
pathways to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, the 
majority of whom are from Mexico and Central and South America.

White nationalists and others on the far-right have long espoused the 
"Great Replacement" and "white genocide" conspiracy theories to whip up 
racial resentment. In 2017, neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, 
Virginia, chanting, "Jews will not replace us." 

"If you change the population, you dilute the political power of the 
people who live there," Carlson said on Thursday. "So every time they 
import a new voter, I'd become disenfranchised as a current voter … 
Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Oh, white replacement. 
No. This is a voting rights question. I have less political power because 
they're importing a brand new electorate. Why should I sit back and take 
that?"

A Fox News spokesperson told Insider that Carlson wasn't endorsing the 
"white replacement" theory, but instead making an argument about voting 
rights. 

Carlson's comments build on similar anti-immigrant arguments he's made in 
the past. He regularly bemoans the country's changing racial demographics 
and demonizes immigrants, who he says make the US "poor and dirtier and 
more divided."

Carlson's "replacement" comments were quickly denounced by human rights 
advocates and critics. 

The Anti-Defamation League called for Carlson's resignation or firing. The 
head of the Jewish rights group, Jonathan Greenblatt, called the theory "a 
white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide 
of non-whites."

"It is antisemitic, racist and toxic. It has informed the ideology of mass 
shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh," he said. "Tucker must 
go."

New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait wrote that Carlson escalated 
his anti-immigrant argument in a way that purposely appeals to white 
supremacists. 

"He could simply make standard issue, non-racist arguments for lower 
levels of legal immigration or perhaps more stringent border security. 
Instead he actively wants to frame his ideas in terms that appeal to white 
supremacists," Chait wrote on Friday. "Carlson has been appealing to them 
for years with wink-and-nod messages that dovetail with their paranoid 
themes. Last night his embrace of white supremacy crossed an important and 
dangerous new threshold." 

Ben Rhodes, a top adviser to former President Barack Obama, tweeted, 
"Throughout American history there has been a ceaseless cast of self-
involved bigots peddling hate forgotten by time."

And Philip Bump, a columnist for The Washington Post, argued that 
Carlson's comments are not only dangerous, but "ahistoric." Carlson, 
himself the descendent of a Swiss-Italian immigrant who wrote about the 
pain of anti-immigrant sentiment, falsely assumed that immigrants and 
their descendants are Democratic voters. The US has a long history of 
hostility towards non-white immigrants, many of whom, including those of 
Italian descent, assimilated to American culture as conservative white 
people.