"It's not how white men fight": Tucker Carlson and the death of Jordan Neely

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"It's not how white men fight": Tucker Carlson and the death of Jordan Neely
On Tucker Carlson's deranged and twisted fantasies about "honorable" white men and their violence

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MAY 5, 2023 8:35AM (EDT)


(Salon) In the most recent chapter in the "Tucker Carlson -- Fox "News" Choose Your Own Adventure Story", the New York Times is reporting that he was unceremoniously fired by Fox because they feared that Carlson's "extremely" racist text messages would hurt their business:

A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race.

The discovery of the message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Mr. Carlson's firing.

In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking "an Antifa kid."

It was "three against one, at least," he wrote.

And then he expressed a sense of dismay that the attackers, like him, were white.

"Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously," he wrote.

"It's not how white men fight," he said. But he said he found himself for a moment wanting the group to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid.

As I wrote on Thursday, "Beyond sounding like something written in Madison Grant's eugenics tract 'The Passing of the Great Race,' Carlson's claims about white men and violence are objectively racist and white supremacist because he delusionally assumes, contrary to the mountains of historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary, the inherent honor and superiority and nobility of 'white men' as a specific group."

Carlson's claims about white men and honor are objectively false and absurd, so much so, that they border on the delusional.

From before the so-called founding, white men have engaged in mob actions, pogroms and racial and ethnic cleansing campaigns against Black, brown and First Nations peoples across the Americas and what would later become the United States. As many historians and other experts have repeatedly shown, the freedom to engage in violence against non-white people with impunity is one of the defining features of how white masculinity has historically been constructed around the world. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/05/ttucker-carlson-jordan-neely-and-how-men-fight/

[Walleye]

1. Tucker has led a sheltered life for sure

I remember once he was talking about an accident on a fishing boat, and he said something like men didn’t go out fishing and get drunk it was too dangerous. They did their drinking after they came in. I’m betting he’s never been fishing in his life