It’s hard to believe that he can come up with uniquely grotesque talking points week after week but somehow he manages to do it:
Tucker Carlson said Wednesday that “Nazi race science” will decide who qualifies for reparations in California’s proposal to pay compensation to descendants of slaves, including Black business owners and the homeless. (Watch the video below.)
A state task force on the matter met in Oakland Wednesday to begin determining eligibility and how much should be paid to recipients, The Associated Press reported.
“Nazi race science” didn’t come up. But that didn’t stop Fox News’ prime time pot-stirrer from offering an overbaked hot take.
“So, at this point, there are plenty of white people in America who are descended from slaves,” Carlson said. “There are plenty of Black people in America who are descended from slave owners. That’s just true.”
“So, how do you know who qualifies for government reparations? Well of course there is only one way to find out and it’s old-fashioned Nazi race science. Nazi race science. So, the state will have to certify the racial purity of its citizens in order to send them money. That’s gonna have to happen.
“Do we really want to go there?” he asked. “Do we really want to do that? Amazingly, liberals really do.”
I would guess many of you don’t have any idea what he’s going on about. California established a task force to look into reparations for slavery:
California’s Reparations Task Force has already made history. The panel’s nearly 500-page report released this year shattered the myth that the state was free from slavery. Its systematic review of the racist harms inflicted on generations of Black people is the first of its kind at a state level. And a hotly-debated decision to limit reparations to California residents who descend from enslaved people or Black freedmen could become a model for future efforts.
But starting Wednesday in Oakland, the nine-person committee will begin perhaps its most daunting task: Deciding what forms reparations could take. “This is really the meat of why we all came together,” said Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, D-South Los Angeles, a task force member. Coming up with final recommendations is expected to take months, with a new report due by July 1.
Only Tucker Carlson could come up with something as absurd as comparing this to “Nazi race science” which is a very specific thing:
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. With the patina of legitimacy provided by “racial” science experts, the Nazi regime carried out a program of approximately 400,000 forced sterilizations and over 275,000 euthanasia deaths that found its most radical manifestation in the death of millions of “racial” enemies in the Holocaust.
I have no idea how they plan to determine who would be eligible for these raparations but I can guarantee that it will have nothing to do with that.
I only bring this up because I know that most readers here don’t follow Carlson and they shouldn’t. But it’s important to be aware of the batshit lunacy he spreads to his audience every single night. He has the highest rated show in cable news. Between him and Elon Musk we have evil, cynical, fascists spewing odious propaganda into the right wing mainstream. It’s dangerous. We can’t turn away.
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