If you heard Tucker Carlson tell it, you simply can’t be a white supremacist unless you have actively engaged in a lynching, burned crosses, or attacked people who don’t look like you in a hooded ceremony. It’s a ridiculous standard. This week, HBO’s John Oliver took the Fox News bloviator to task and dismantled Tucker’s nonsense in exactly the way that viewers at home were waiting to hear.
“He is scared of a country that ‘looks nothing like him’, and proclaims ‘diversity is not our strength.’” Oliver simply does not let up on the way that Carlson has peddled dogwhistles to an audience that laps them up, looking for an America that would like to pretend there is no need for social change.
Remember the times Tucker was making wild, racist claims about Iraqis?
If you have 24 minutes, find time to watch it all:
Oliver goes after Tucker’s ramblings on misogyny, transphobia, Islamophobia, fake outrage, and more. Have a few laughs this morning.