Far-right media personality Tucker Carlson once again broadcast a deranged rant against vaccines to his millions of viewers on the conservative Fox News network in the face of the pandemic that's killed nearly 600 thousand Americans.
Featuring a chyron that said "Medical Jim Crow has Come to America," Carlson compared vaccine requirements enforced by private businesses to racial segregation that blocked Black Americans from adequate schools, restrooms, transportation methods, and a host of other public services.
Carlson said in the segment:
"If we still had water fountains, the unvaccinated would have separate ones."
MSNBC host Joy Reid—who'd already issued a stunning rebuke to Carlson for repeatedly referring to her as "the Race Lady" on his show—delivered a rebuttal for the ages for Carlson's nonsense.
Watch below.
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In her segment The Absolute Worst, Reid skewered Carlson's comparisons of vaccine requirement to the violently racist Jim Crow-era laws, diagnosing him with victim status envy.
After playing clips from Carlson's broadcast, Reid said:
"Nurse, could you please get in here? We appear to have another severe case of VSE, Victim Status Envy, stat! These people have decided that being the victim of historic discrimination and cruelty is somehow something to be desired, and they want a piece of the action. in the current outbreak of VSE, Republicans apparently want so badly to blur the lines on what we can all see them doing."
She continued:
"Requiring people to wear a mask or show a little card that says you aren't going to kill everyone around you by coughing on them isn't Jim Crow targeting the disproportionately Republican vaccine refusers and anti-maskers, any more than 'no shirts, no shoes, no service' is Jim Crow that targets naked people."
People heartily agreed with her.
Nurse here! Got here as fast as I could...tell Tuckums I'm ready to give him his VSE antidote!pic.twitter.com/pnDosCJSon— SueZnotQ (@SueZnotQ) 1622686456
Whew, now that\u2019s a history lesson. Watch https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1400271180616065032\u00a0\u2026— Tim Wycoff (@Tim Wycoff) 1622693674
This is how an epic takedown is done!https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1400271180616065032\u00a0\u2026— GungaDean (@GungaDean) 1622734833
Always on pointhttps://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1400271180616065032\u00a0\u2026— KD (@KD) 1622724860
Brilliant!!https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1400271180616065032\u00a0\u2026— TommyTaya \u270d\ud83c\udffe \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udfff (@TommyTaya \u270d\ud83c\udffe \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udfff) 1622718285
Reid wasn't the only one to push back against Carlson's segment.
Out of the mouths of racists: using an era that was horrific for black people.. spin it around to now use it to describe grievances.\n\nThis is why we continue to HAVE to fight; the diminishing and disappearance of black plight at the hands of those in charge of the narrative.https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1399879877445181448\u00a0\u2026— TaiLotus\ud83e\udd42 (@TaiLotus\ud83e\udd42) 1622657072
Bro white people always want to take the slightest inconvenience and compre it to the mistreatment of black people in the United States.https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1399879877445181448\u00a0\u2026— zaxbys (@zaxbys) 1622659921
Is this man comparing slavery/Jim crow to people not getting vaccinated ? Yeah... uhhhttps://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1399879877445181448\u00a0\u2026— E. E. Williams (@E. E. Williams) 1622642025
Tucker "melanin scares me" Carlson back at it again with whipping up that white ignorant fearhttps://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1399879877445181448\u00a0\u2026— \ud83d\udd1eIcky batty\ud83d\udd1e (@\ud83d\udd1eIcky batty\ud83d\udd1e) 1622676014
Sadly, Carlson's racism and disinformation are expected to continue.
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