What Tucker Carlson is doing
What was that about “replacement theory”? Just yesterday? Now jump ahead to today:
A man has opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York while live-streaming on Twitch, killing at least 10 people and injuring several others, local officials and witnesses say. He also posted an online manifesto in which he described himself as a white supremacist.
Tucker Carlson whips white supremacists into a rage for ratings, which translate to money. To make himself rich, Tucker Carlson talks a lot of racist garbage on tv to an audience of millions, and here is this result. This isn’t correlation taken for causation, not when the guy live-streams himself and says he’s a violent racist.
The exact number of victims was not immediately clear, but officials told The Buffalo News that at least 10 people were killed and 3 injured, including two who were in critical condition. A recently retired Buffalo police officer who worked security at the store is among those killed.
A 106-page online manifesto, believed to have been uploaded by the shooter, explained that he was motivated by a conspiracy theory that white people are being replaced by other races. In the document, he says he is 18 years old and a self-described white supremacist and anti-semite.
“If there’s one thing I want you to get from these writings, it’s that White birth rates must change. Everyday the White population becomes fewer in number,” the document says. “To maintain a population the people must achieve a birth rate that reaches replacement fertility levels, in the western world that is about 2.06 births per woman.”
A small thing. Tucker was born to wealthy parents. He was already rich. Which means he had even less reason to do this. Which makes him even more disgusting.
The skeptic in me wants to know if the killer was a white supremacist before encountering Carlson’s views. (Did the killer even encounter Carlson’s views? It’s not clear from the linked article. Was Carlson mentioned in the manifesto?) Also, there are other, even more loathesome sources – some mentioned in the first Fresh Air post about Tucker, from which one could be exposed to ideas about the “Great Replacement”.
I don’t think Tucker does this to get rich, that’s just a nice byproduct of expressing his deeply held racist views. He’s an arsehole with abominable views doing what that kind of arsehole does. I’m sure he likes being rich and views the rewards he gets as his entitlement. I doubt he’d ever have the strength of commitment to actually do the shit people like these shooters do. Unless maybe purging liberals was made legal.
TheDudeDiogenes–he was definitely a white supremacists, but
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/05/16/did-buffalo-shooter-attack-fox-news/
As an Australian I take great exception to Tucker Carlson comments on gun control in Australia. I have visited the USA literally hundreds of times since 1971 and have a great affection for the warmth and hospitality shown to me.
Americas attitude to firearms is their affair. The fact that we have few if no “mass shootings” is our affair.
tERRY