Tucker Carlson calls white supremacy a hoax. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: Help build the Home of the Progressives
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"hree days after a shooter who expressed white supremacist beliefs killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson declared that the threat of white supremacy is a hoax.
“It’s actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside of a college football stadium,” Carlson said in his Tuesday night monologue. “This is a hoax. Just like the Russia hoax. It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”
Carlson is lying to his viewers. While the number of people in organized white supremacist groups is small as a proportion of the population, their ranks have swelled since Donald Trump began running for president.
Simply counting members of white nationalist groups understates the actual threat: Recent white supremacist mass killers — like the one who attacked a black church in Charleston, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and a heavily Latino group of Walmart patrons in El Paso — have not been card-carrying members white supremacist groups. They are radicalized independently and online, a kind of threat that’s much harder for law enforcement to predict and stop than a plot organized by a terrorist cell."
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