Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson, author of “Ship of Fools,” reacted to the media backlash President Donald Trump had received for saying it was a “very scary time for young men in America,” and a subsequent reaction from first son Donald Trump, Jr. echoing those remarks.
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin ridiculed that statement on CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday, saying that every night he cried himself to sleep “over the fate of white men in America.”
Toobin added, “White men have no power, white men — I mean, it’s such garbage.”
Carlson rejected Toobin’s and others remarks and suggested such rhetoric was used to stoke racial hatred.
“You are hearing a lot of this filth recently, and it’s wrong because racism is always wrong no matter who it’s aimed at,” he said. “You should not attack people for their immutable characteristics, period. We’ve made that point consistently again and again over the past two years on this show. You shouldn’t ever reduce people to their skin color because they are much more than that. You ought to treat people as individuals, unique human beings — not faceless members of a tribe sorted by hue. That’s exactly the argument you could have made in 1960 against Bull Connor. And if they’d been there, you wouldn’t have made that argument. It’s the same argument we are making today. It was true then. It’s true now. It always will be true.”
“You don’t think you’d have to say something that obvious in a developed country, one that literally has a statue of Martin Luther King on the National Mall,” Carlson continued. “But we do have to say that. We have no choice. And for the crime of arguing against racism, we are denounced by the left as, yes, racist. That’s insane. In fact, it’s Orwellian. It’s the mirror image of the truth. But there is the reason that they are saying it. Our elites stoke race hatred in order to divide this country against itself. People are easier to control when they are divided into tribes sorted by color. It is that simple. It is also that evil, just like the racism they are peddling to you. We will never endorse that against any at any time, period.”
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