Tucker Carlsonâs concept of pushing fear of immigrants and change of US demographics have reached its peak- instilling fear into peopleâs minds, and creating a huge division in public and the government.
Carlson lay dormant for years and came back with his show âTucker Carlson Tonightâ, which had become the prime evening news months after Donald Trumpâs painfully obvious defeat. As we all know, Fox being too pro-Trump and Sean Hannity being at the forefront of the Trump campaign practically licking his feet, Carlson wanted to come with another method to become one of Trumpâs faithful servants- one where he didnât have to regularly apologize for Trumpâs behaviorâs, like Hannity.
And that idea is what led him to the forefront of national cable news, with his âTucker Carlson Tonightâ, which drove Trumpâs idea of panic- panic over Americaâs changing ethnic composition. It has also been reported by Media Matters that Carlson in fact continuously and probably subtly used the language of replacement to suggest that Democrats are conducting some sort of âdemographic replacementâ to gain political power. In addition, it was also reported last September by Media Matters that Carlson had told his viewers that Biden is aiming to âreplace ââlegacy Americansââ and âchange the racial mix of the countryâ.
Though Carlson has maintained distance from the President, he is seemingly taking up the idea of the âgreat replacementâ, which has taken a stronghold in the American and European conspiracy theories in recent years. Basically, itâs a far-right, white supremacy theory, popularized by Renaud Camus, who believed that the native white Europeans were being replaced by non-white immigrants- a movement which will supposedly lead to the end of the white race. This manâs idea, along with another British author Bat Yeâorâs idea, who coined the concept of âEurabiaâ is mainly focused on Muslim immigration, who will allegedly replace the white Europeans with their high birth rates. This same ideology was embraced by the white supremacists, who warn of white Europeans and Americans decline, thus creating a dumb idea that they are facing some sort of demographic threat and a strong mission to preserve the âwhitenessâ against immigrants invaders- both Muslims and Jews.
Carlson thrusted this idea to the viewers, for example, last April where he argued that the Democrats were allegedly âimporting more obedient voters from the third world” to “replace the current electorateâ for power. Furthermore, he went out of his way to seek news or stories, observed by a friend, that were sometimes âreally weirdâ and most of the time inaccurate but that would surely knock onto the fear door of viewers of a declining American culture. He goes further to create a discrimination divide by using derogatory language and promoting anti-immigration policies, describing the immigrants as a âflood of illegalsâ and these immigrants making America âpoor and dirtierâ. This idea was also taken up by Laura Ingraham, who warned the viewers that the Democrats wanted to replace âmany of youâ.
This ideology of the âgreat replacementâ or as Ingraham referred to as the âinvasion of the countryâ has led to various terrorist violence, some including the 2019 El Paso shooting, 2011 Noway attack, which killed 77 people (most of them were children), the Christchurch Mosque shooting in New Zealand in 2019, where 51 Muslims were killed.
Carlsonâs claims about immigrants is whatâs dirtying America and these concepts, âgreat replacementâ, âEurabiaâ are some primary beliefs of the white supremacists, which doesnât deserve any place in the mainstream networks that are viewed by millions of people. Unfortunately, these ideas are the roots of polarization and division in the US, and the inevitable result will be a deeply divided nation, continuously in war, without any support and with white terrorists roaming in the streets.