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Extremist ideology has found favor with media figures like Tucker Carlson and also with elected politicians and others seeking office.

The pugilistic Stefanik, for example, was not backing down on Sunday, making no mention of the massacre in her home state as she retweeted criticism of Democrats over the baby formula shortage. On his show last year, he stated: “Demographic change is the key to the Democratic Party’s political ambitions. This is all about power,” he said, without acknowledging that only US citizens can vote, and the path to citizenship can take legal immigrants many years. “This is about changing the face of America, figuratively and literally. @GOPLeader should be asked about this,” he said in a tweet, referring to Wyoming Republican Cheney’s ousting by House minority leader Kevin McCarthy over her place on the 6 January panel. The #3 in the house GOP @Liz_Cheney got removed for demanding truth.

There is nothing subtle about the rhetoric we hear coming from Fox News' Tucker Carlson, from Republican governors in states or even from Rep. Elise Stefanik of ...

And we all need to speak up and tell pundits, politicians, news networks, advertisers and anyone else involved in the free-and-easy use of the language of death one thing, in one loud, collective voice: “This. Must. Stop.” In other words it's a program of destruction aimed at the West.” ► The October 2018 massacre of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh by a white supremacist. He posted a letter online that, among many other things, blamed Jewish people “for their role in voting for and funding politicians and organizations who use mass immigration to displace the European race.” The power that I have as an American, guaranteed at birth, is one man, one vote, and they're diluting it. The fear-mongering conspiracies about white people being replaced by people of color clearly inspired the suspected Buffalo shooter. By people of color. He continued: “I have less political power because they're importing a brand new electorate. The same ideas have motivated gunmen in several other mass shootings.” Images from the livestream show a racial epithet written on the shooter's gun. To the constant chatter on right-wing radio. Right before the shooting, he posted online that a Jewish group that works with refugees “likes to bring invaders that kill our people.

NEW YORK (AP) — A racist ideology seeping from the Internet's fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the Tops ...

The shooting was an act of evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Congresswoman Stefanik will never stop fighting to secure our borders and secure our elections.” A “manifesto” by the New Zealand shooter was widely spread online. In the U.S., you can point to efforts to intimidate and discourage Black people from voting — from replacing white voters at the polls — that date to the post-Civil War era. He reportedly inscribed the number 14 on his gun, which Pitcavage said is shorthand for a 14-word white supremacist slogan. “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest 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,” he said on his show last year. In the modern era, most experts point to two influential books. That’s true.” The theory’s more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement conspiracy. “It actually introduces the Great Replacement Theory to a conservative audience in an easier-to-swallow pill,” he said. The attention paid by many Republican politicians to what they see as a leaky southern border along the United States has been interpreted, at least by some, as a nod to the concern of white people who worry about being “replaced.” “The Turner Diaries,” a 1978 novel written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, is about a violent revolution in the United States with a race war that leads to the extermination of nonwhites.

Would this Buffalo shooting have happened if Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson didn't exist? Maybe. But the gunman, Payton Gendron, is still alive and in ...

What’s notable about New Zealand, Norway, and other countries where mass shootings inspired by racist ideas have occurred is there is broad consensus among the governing and media elites that such occurrences are bad. Here, the Trump-Carlson faction of America is no doubt celebrating. Buffalo authorities owe it to America to ask him detailed questions along these lines and videotape it and show it to us so we can see how this poison infects angry young brains.

CNN's Jim Acosta laid into Fox News and Tucker Carlson following this weekend's racially-charged shooting in Buffalo.

We have not shied away from calling that out and calling Tucker out on this program, because what he’s doing is very dangerous.” The CNN anchor, who previously said that “nobody bullsh*ts like [Tucker],” also played a compilation of Carlson spewing dangerous “great replacement” rhetoric on Fox News. In the document, he says he is [a] self-described white supremacist and anti-semite.”

Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson spouts a lot of questionable claims on his controversial news show Tucker Carlson Tonight, but one conspiracy theory ...

I have less political power because they’re importing a brand-new electorate – why should I sit back and take that?” “In a democracy, one person equals one vote. Now spreading the misinformation on his own Fox News show, the host claimed the theory is “the secret to the entire immigration debate”. “On the most basic level, it’s a voting rights question,” he added. In an interview with Primetime host Mark Steyn – who now has his own show on GB News – Carlson claimed “the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical” if the term “replacement” is used when discussing voting in the US. Jonathan Greenblatt, of the Anti-Defamation League, has described it as “a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites”.

Don't let Republicans get away with their ugly 'great replacement theory' scam.

Patrick carefully couched this as a warning about “millions of voters” set to impose their will on the current population, and we’ve heard talk about imported voters from other Republicans, including Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. She notes that when high-profile figures float these ideas in a more benign form, it seduces people into being more accepting of them than they otherwise might be. “It’s been gradually moving from the fringes into the mainstream,” Gorski told me. The extent to which “great replacement” ideas have migrated from the fringe into something more routine among Republican lawmakers appears new. Let’s note that this doesn’t mean Republicans are to blame for the shooting. Actually, the “disgusting low” was committed by Stefanik herself.

John Legend slammed Fox News talker Tucker Carlson for spreading what the singer said was a 'sickening,' 'dangerous' racist theory.

That would mean a lot to me.” (In a caption for the Instagram post, he wrote, “To the people who couldn’t stay silent to honor the lives that were so tragically lost, I urge you to ask yourself why.”) But I’m looking forward to tonight, looking forward to getting on stage and doing what we do best and having a good time and bringing joy to the city. This should not be on a major cable network.” The tweet included a link to a supercut of Carlson’s frequent, enthusiastic promotion of the “replacement” conspiracy theory, which the suspect in the Buffalo shooting allegedly referred to a number of times in a voluminous manifesto he left behind. “Followers of this ideology have been massacring Jews, Blacks, Asians, Latinos. When will we ostracize and deplatform these terrorist sympathizers on our TV and social networks?” he asked. Why do white supremacist terrorist sympathizers get a pass?” Legend wondered. John Legend struck out at Fox News commenter Tucker Carlson in a series of pointed tweets on Sunday (May 15) in which he took the conservative network’s star talker to task for what he said was Carlson’s poisoning of his viewers’ minds.

It has become a grotesque ritual in American life that whenever a white nationalist kills enough people to briefly seize the attention of the national media ...

The fact that Gendron has a problem with the likes of Chris Wallace and Jonah Goldberg is not a divide between him and Carlson but a point of common ground. “It is virtually impossible to find any ideology on any part of the political spectrum that has not spawned senseless violence and mass murder by adherents,” he writes. Carlson, like Trump, serves as a bridge between the Republican Party and a movement once seen as too extreme and marginal for the party to touch. White nationalists see Carlson as their champion, and so too does the vast majority of the conservative movement. To reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the Third World … This is the language of eugenics. We learned that the hard way a couple of months ago. This is their version of democracy, or if you don’t like the outcome, you just change the electorate. He describes illegal immigration as a conflict between racial groups, with the arrival of one causing the elimination of the other. But the banal notion that immigration has political implications is not the issue. Obviously, adding immigrants to the population is a completely different thing than replacing the current population. It casts the phenomenon as a sinister elite conspiracy often (though not necessarily) directed by Jews. Rather than complain about the difficulties or failures of immigration enforcement, or blaming Democrats for their unwillingness to accept the tough measures that might be needed to tighten enforcement, great-replacement theory believes a secret cabal has been directing this policy for its own benefit. Carlson’s allies on the right wish to exculpate him of any blame for the violence committed by his adherents.

The women of The View stood united Monday morning after an 18-year-old gunman allegedly carried out a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on ...

If you are voting for them, you are part of the problem!" If you are a staffer working for them, you are part of the problem! "Frankly, I'm sick of all the people pretending that that's not what they mean when they talk that code. "Listen, if you are an advertiser advertising on that station, you are part of the problem. We can't go to a Walmart. We can't go to church," she said, before shifting the blame beyond the shooter. "It's time to name names and point fingers," said Navarro. "They need to be called out!"

The Fox News host has been pushing the theory for at least a year.

"But they become hysterical because that's that's what's happening actually. A compilation of him touting the ideas recently went viral on social media. "So I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement', if you suggest 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," Mr Carlson said.

John Legend isn't holding back his criticism of Tucker Carlson. In a tweet thread on Monday, the singer called out the Fox News host and other right-wing ...

“As you know, there’s been tragedy in the city, but what we’re gonna do tonight, is we’re gonna honour those people, and I would love if we could just take a moment of silence. Why do white supremacist terrorist sympathizers get a pass? They have contributed to multiple terrorist massacres and will continue to do so.

The alleged teenage mass shooter in Buffalo, New York, wrote and posted a 180-page manifesto. I read the whole thing, and the only part that surprised me ...

He deserves his chance to explain why his views are not just genteel versions of the manifesto, especially because many of those in a position to analyze and summarize the manifesto hate him. I have no sympathy with Islamism of any kind, and I think all notions of a “Great Replacement” rely on an obtuse understanding of American history, which has always been a churn of forced and voluntary immigration, conquest, and demographic change. It is written more casually (“plz” for please, and other bits of 4chan jargon), and it clears the very low bar of being a more engaging read than the Unabomber’s. Perhaps the presence of graphics, cartoons, and jokes—however unfunny—make it more likely to draw readers in. How does his version of the Great Replacement differ from the one in the manifesto, which considers the history of race in America a colossal and genocidal crime against white people? It is on social media; it is on Fox News. But I rarely see it expressed in a form as repulsive as the one it takes in this manifesto, with its images of hook-nosed, “demonic” Jews and grotesque, animalistic caricatures of Black people. I found a copy about a week later, opened it in a giddy spirit of adolescent subversion—and promptly realized I had tricked myself into reading a tedious screed that held zero reward.

The Great Replacement Theory is a conspiracy theory that, at its base, states there is a plot to reduce the influence of white people, according to The ...

Some have interpreted the stance as a hat tip to the white constituents who were worried about being “replaced.” “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest 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,” he said on his show last year, according to a transcript from The AP. The Great Replacement Theory is a conspiracy theory that, at its base, states there is a plot to reduce the influence of white people, according to The Associated Press. One example of how the conspiracy theory has steeped into mainstream thought in the present day is in politics. The fringe belief has been peddled on internet message boards like 4chan, and The Washington Post has described it as turning “white nationalism into an international call to arms.” In the aftermath of the racist murders of 10 people over the weekend during a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, there has been a great deal of attention on ‘replacement theory,’ a disturbing ideology that made its way from internet forums into mainstream political thinking.

Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is facing intense scrutiny from extremism experts, media watchdogs and progressive activists who say there is a link.

Carlson is not the only high-profile figure in the conservative movement who has used “replacement” rhetoric. Carlson has repeatedly promoted parts of the “replacement” theory on his broadcast. “It’s time Tucker face consequences for his words.” (Greenblatt’s organization has previously called on Fox News to fire Carlson.) “The rhetoric that he espouses finds its origins in white supremacist literature,” Hayden went on to say, citing examples of websites and other publications popular with white supremacists. The suspect’s apparent document does not state that he watched “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a mainstay of the Fox News lineup since 2016. The theory baselessly holds that a cabal of Jewish people and Democratic elites are plotting to “replace” white Americans with people of color through immigration policies, higher birth rates and other social transformations.

Ten people were killed in a mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighbourhood in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, in what authorities described as a "racially ...

America simply is the greatest contradiction that we see in the world, as we really posit ourselves as the shining light of democracy and opportunity and this melting-pot ethic. Fox News … [has] the largest viewership of any cable news network in the country by a lot. It's really about America. It's about the country. So that's what I would say to our Canadian brothers and sisters up north: Don't be like us. It makes us feel better to say something is wrong with the Republican Party. But something is wrong with the country. Those are not new tropes in the country. What's at the heart of this, really, is American institutional racism and white supremacy, which have sat at the foundation of the country since it was founded. What do you think we in Canada should be thinking about? They're just symptoms of the problem. It makes us feel better to just blame Tucker Carlson and Fox News, and believe me, they are problematic. The conspiracy theory has been linked to previous mass shootings, including the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. So those of us who study this know it's not new.

The American tolerance of dangerous demagoguery in the media isn't new and it's where money is made.

The same applies to HBO’s Lovecraft Country, and both present structural racism in the context of an alternative reality or the supernatural. And there is very little to counter what Carlson is stirring up. Carlson is an entrepreneur in that marketplace, as is his employer, Fox News, mining white panic and other alarmist ideas for profit. First, Carlson is only the latest in a long list of demagogues in the United States who incite hate based on fear of non-white ethnicities. The American tolerance of demagogues who incite hate is an anomaly in Western countries. You don’t need to be a historian to be aware of Huey Long, George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. You don’t need to be a student of U.S. media to know that there is a through-line going back from Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh to Father Charles Coughlin, the “radio priest” who had an audience of tens of millions in the 1930s, peddling anti-Semitism and fear about immigrants being “foreign invaders.”

A once-fringe theory is being amplified by Republican politicians and on Fox News in prime time. “This is a poison that's being spread by one of the largest ...

“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,” he said, adding: “That’s what’s happening, actually. But the racist theory that white Americans are being replaced by an influx of Black and brown immigrants is no longer fringe, as the average Fox News viewer may be acquainted with a version of it. Gendron also allegedly published a document before the attack, touting his belief in white-replacement theory while stating that his plan was to “kill as many blacks as possible” and inspire others to do the same.

Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman's reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more ...

Since the shooting Carlson and his fellow Fox News hosts have justifiably drawn criticism for their promotion of replacement theory. Fox News was one of six media organizations which the gunman claimed, in his manifesto, were disproportionately influenced by Jewish people. “[But] the size of Fox News’s audience is what is notable. But given Carlson and his colleagues’ promotion of the theory, which has been unchecked by Fox News’s top executives, experts see the network as being left in a bind. In April a New York Times investigation found that in more than 400 hundred of his shows Carlson had advanced the idea that a “cabal of elites want to force demographic change through immigration”. Fox News, according to Oliver Darcy, a media correspondent for CNN, “largely ignored” the fact that the shooter had been inspired by replacement theory.

When a cable news host opens his show with a red-faced rant about white people being replaced, that's considered a typical episode of that show — routine ...

It’s not Costco — you can be a white supremacist without being an official member the same way you can watch movies without having a Blockbuster card.” — SETH MEYERS If I found out that Jeffrey Dahmer was really into ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ I might switch over to the ‘Narnia’ stuff.” — STEPHEN COLBERT It’s not like there’s a bouncer who only lets two in when two leave.” — SETH MEYERS He’s ‘Don’t Ask Jeeves.’” — SETH MEYERS Now, the implication is that 18-year-old boys go into that gun dealer and buy weapons of war regularly. “We live in a country, and I don’t know when it happened, where an 18-year-old boy goes into a gun dealership to buy an assault weapon, and it’s a routine transaction.