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Subject: He's one of the worst Americans
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:32:26 +0000
From: Robert Reich <moveon-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This filth is dangerous—very dangerous. Every single weeknight, more
than 3 million people tune in to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
Dear fellow MoveOn member,
Call me old-fashioned, but I think people in public life need to be held
accountable for the damage they're doing to our country.
*So today, I'm calling out the most dangerous demagogue since Donald
Trump. His name: Tucker Carlson.*
On his Fox News show, Carlson has been peddling an outrageous white
supremacist conspiracy called "white replacement theory." It's a
decades-old piece of neo-Nazi trash that claims there is a liberal plot
to reduce the white population and replace them with what Tucker has
called "obedient people from faraway countries."^1
*This filth is dangerous—very dangerous.* Every single weeknight, more
than 3 million people tune in to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News.^2
It's the largest audience of any show on cable news. And on Facebook,
newly released internal documents show that to increase their profits
the company is intentionally pushing out this violent neo-Nazi
propaganda to millions of people.^3
To fight back, I've partnered with MoveOn to use our massive combined
audiences to beat back racist lies and conspiracy theories. Together, we
will create hard-hitting, viral videos to dispel Tucker Carlson's
hysteria and get the truth out to people around the country.
*But we need your help. Unlike Fox News, MoveOn relies on small
donations from members like you to power it and get its message out to
the widest audience possible. Will you chip in $5 a month so that,
together, we can fight back against the right-wing media machine?*
*This latest conspiracy coming out of Tucker's mouth isn't just vile,
racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and xenophobic. It's deadly. *
In 2019, a gunman inspired by "white replacement theory" drove 600 miles
to a Walmart in El Paso, TX, a city along the U.S.-Mexico border, where
he murdered 23 people, mostly of Latino descent.^4
According to a manifesto the gunman posted online just before committing
the mass shooting, the attack was a "response to the Hispanic invasion
of Texas."^5
And in 2018, another gunman inspired by "white replacement theory"
killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pennsylvania. An investigation
revealed that the gunman believed Jewish humanitarian aid groups were
bringing Central American migrants to the United States in order to
"kill" the "white race."^6
*It's not just Tucker Carlson who is spreading this deadly conspiracy
theory. Current and former elected Republicans, including Matt Gaetz and
Donald Trump, have also endorsed the theory—and thousands more
right-wing social media accounts are spreading it far and wide online.*
With the lives of immigrants, people of color, and religious minorities
on the line, we need to invest massive resources in combating this
disgusting lie and getting the truth out to people across the country.
MoveOn's in-house Creative Lab creates powerful videos and other content
that directly pushes back against the onslaught of right-wing talking
points, racism, and lies. Since its launch, Creative Lab has produced
thousands of hard-hitting, fact-based videos that have been viewed
hundreds of millions of times. And with your help, I'll partner with
MoveOn to create even more viral content that pushes back against this
white supremacist bile.
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Thanks for all you do.
–Robert Reich
Sources:
1. "Tucker Pushes Racist 'Great Replacement' Theory Yet Again, ADL
Renews Call for Fox to Fire Him," The Daily Beast, September 23, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159250?t=6&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159250?t=5&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
2. "Fox News Nearly Sweeps Top 100 Highest-Rated Cable Telecasts In
August," /Forbes/, August 31, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159251?t=8&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159251?t=7&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
3. "Neo-Nazis are still on Facebook. And they're making money," ABC
News, September 25, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159252?t=10&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159252?t=9&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
4. "A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream," Axios, September 29, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159253?t=12&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159253?t=11&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
5. "Walmart shooter allegedly penned white supremacist rant in 'bible of
evil,'" /El Paso Times/, August 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/159254?t=14&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159254?t=13&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
6. "Jewish Groups Blast Carlson for Openly Endorsing White Supremacist
Theory: 'Tucker Must Go,'" The Daily Beast, April 9, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159255?t=16&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_
<https://act.moveon.org/go/159255?t=15&akid=307920%2E15337317%2Ews5Se_>
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