Now here comes the devious bait-and-switch. The media is now trying to convince us that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory is becoming Republican orthodoxy. The most frequent target of their ire has been Tucker Carlson, whose undeniable and abiding popularity has clearly galled many on the left for some time and has, accordingly, been the object of Antifa activists and repeated left de-platforming pressure campaigns.
Carlson had initially discussed the “replacement” idea in an April 8, 2021, Fox News “Primetime” appearance in which he took special care to distinguish his point — that Democrats were deliberately displacing American voters in favor of a different demographic of new arrivals who would become loyal Democratic voters — from the race-based great replacement theory: “Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Ooh … the … ‘White Replacement Theory.’ No, no, no. This is a voting rights question,” he said.
Carlson’s explicit disclaimer did not stop the Anti-Defamation League from initiating a he-must-be-fired campaign based on the falsehood that Carlson had openly embraced the Great Replacement Theory. When, in a Sept. 22 segment on his show, Carlson mentioned the theory again as a description of President Biden’s own explicitly race-based expostulation of the effect of mass immigration, the media’s hysteria machine went into overdrive.
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There is, of course, a world of difference between an incendiary conspiracy theory that a Jew-led cabal is trying to mongrelize the West and the above and similar comments by Carlson and Republican members of Congress voicing concern that Democrats are bending over backwards to let in an unabated flow of illegal immigrants because such immigrants, inherently lacking any strong attachment to or knowledge of America and its history and cultural heritage, overwhelmingly vote for the party that panders to them.
More than worthy of discussion, as well, is the idea — argued eloquently by, for example, the eminent late philosopher Sir Roger Scruton in his “England and the Need for Nations” (2006) — that a democratic nation cannot survive without a citizenry that shares bonds of trust based on a common cultural and historical identity and a core of common values. That sense of heritage, Scruton contends, is undermined — and, what is more, gives way to zero-sum racial, ethnic, and other tribal affiliations — when a flood of individuals who neither know nor care about the nation they are entering is admitted and left unintegrated.
Leftist’s Racist Outrage Treadmill Revs Up Over Tucker Carlson Noticing Open Borders
Carlson had initially discussed the “replacement” idea in an April 8, 2021, Fox News “Primetime” appearance in which he took special care to distinguish his point — that Democrats were deliberately displacing American voters in favor of a different demographic of new arrivals who would become loyal Democratic voters — from the race-based great replacement theory: “Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Ooh … the … ‘White Replacement Theory.’ No, no, no. This is a voting rights question,” he said.
Carlson’s explicit disclaimer did not stop the Anti-Defamation League from initiating a he-must-be-fired campaign based on the falsehood that Carlson had openly embraced the Great Replacement Theory. When, in a Sept. 22 segment on his show, Carlson mentioned the theory again as a description of President Biden’s own explicitly race-based expostulation of the effect of mass immigration, the media’s hysteria machine went into overdrive.
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There is, of course, a world of difference between an incendiary conspiracy theory that a Jew-led cabal is trying to mongrelize the West and the above and similar comments by Carlson and Republican members of Congress voicing concern that Democrats are bending over backwards to let in an unabated flow of illegal immigrants because such immigrants, inherently lacking any strong attachment to or knowledge of America and its history and cultural heritage, overwhelmingly vote for the party that panders to them.
More than worthy of discussion, as well, is the idea — argued eloquently by, for example, the eminent late philosopher Sir Roger Scruton in his “England and the Need for Nations” (2006) — that a democratic nation cannot survive without a citizenry that shares bonds of trust based on a common cultural and historical identity and a core of common values. That sense of heritage, Scruton contends, is undermined — and, what is more, gives way to zero-sum racial, ethnic, and other tribal affiliations — when a flood of individuals who neither know nor care about the nation they are entering is admitted and left unintegrated.
Leftist’s Racist Outrage Treadmill Revs Up Over Tucker Carlson Noticing Open Borders
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