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CNN's Jim Acosta Comes ThisClose To Calling Tucker Carlson A Klansman
I like the new spelling of Tuckkker's name https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-acosta-tucker-carlson-kkk-fox-news_n_60721fdac5b6616dcd791978
CNN’s Jim Acosta took a swift swipe Saturday at Tucker Carlson and his most recent racist preachings by indicating that the Fox News host should spell his first name with more than one K, an apparent allusion to the Ku Klux Klan.
“This is hardly the first time Tucker Carlson — I’m not sure why he spells Tucker with just one K — has been accused of making racist comments,” Acosta said.
He was talking with Brian Stelter, CNN’s media correspondent, about the uproar over Carlson peddling the notorious white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory on Fox News and wondered if the network will again refuse to take any action against Carlson. (Check out the controversy in the video above. Acosta takes his shot at 1:16.)
Carlson complained on Thursday that he was being outvoted at the ballot box and blamed it on “white replacement” via a shadowy plot to recruit immigrants from the “Third World.” He insisted it wasn’t a racist complaint but an issue of “voting rights” because his candidates don’t always win. “Why should I sit back and take that?” Carlson said.
The white supremacist replacement theory claims that an elite cabal, including Jews, are deliberately recruiting immigrants of color to undermine white domination and white Christian culture. The belief has fueled racist mass shooting in the U.S. and elsewhere. Neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 were referring to the fearmongering theory when they chanted, “Jews will not replace us.”
“This is hardly the first time Tucker Carlson — I’m not sure why he spells Tucker with just one K — has been accused of making racist comments,” Acosta said.
He was talking with Brian Stelter, CNN’s media correspondent, about the uproar over Carlson peddling the notorious white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory on Fox News and wondered if the network will again refuse to take any action against Carlson. (Check out the controversy in the video above. Acosta takes his shot at 1:16.)
Carlson complained on Thursday that he was being outvoted at the ballot box and blamed it on “white replacement” via a shadowy plot to recruit immigrants from the “Third World.” He insisted it wasn’t a racist complaint but an issue of “voting rights” because his candidates don’t always win. “Why should I sit back and take that?” Carlson said.
The white supremacist replacement theory claims that an elite cabal, including Jews, are deliberately recruiting immigrants of color to undermine white domination and white Christian culture. The belief has fueled racist mass shooting in the U.S. and elsewhere. Neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 were referring to the fearmongering theory when they chanted, “Jews will not replace us.”
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