Fox News personality Tucker Carlson weighed in on California's proposal to compensate descendants of slaves, declaring "Nazi race science" will determine who qualifies for reparations.
Video of Carlson's remarks was shared by Kat Abu, who works for Media Matters for America (MMA), a politically left-leaning 501, nonprofit organization and media watchdog group.
You can hear what Carlson said in the video below.
\u201cTucker Carlson: The government will have to use "Nazi race science" to figure out who qualifies for reparations.\u201d— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1671066740
Carlson said:
“So, at this point, there are plenty of white people in America who are descended from slaves. 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? Do we really want to do that? Amazingly, liberals really do.”
Carlson has been accused of using his program to stoke resentment against people of color and a recent New York Timesseries noted he has "constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news."
Critics of Carlson pointed out he has pushed numerous racist conspiracy theories on his program, including replacement theory. He has often railed against liberal immigration policies, providing an enormous platform for White nationalist rhetoric.
When Carlson hasn't been using his program to spout his own rhetoric, he invites others to do it for him, such as when he generated controversy earlier this year for hosting University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax. Wax claimed Black people and “Third World” immigrants hold “resentment and shame and envy” against White people because of their "outsized achievements and contributions.”
Many have condemned Carlson's remarks.
\u201cTucker literally thinks if your 4x great grandma was raped by a slave owner you don\u2019t deserve reparations. Thinks if your family ever intermarried anyone not a direct descendant of slaves then you don\u2019t deserve it. Forget the Nazi race science. All black ppl deserve reparations.\u201d— capitalismsucks (@capitalismsucks) 1671108292
\u201cA simple https://t.co/K2iiaIdBQO found my family records all the way up to the first free black person in my family\u2026. I don\u2019t think much Nazi race science will be required my guy\u2026.\u201d— Ryan Mayo (@Ryan Mayo) 1671067363
\u201c@abughazalehkat Tucker: "There are plenty of Black people in America who are descendants from slaveowners."\n\nReality: "There are plenty of Black people whose ancestors were raped by slaveowners."\u201d— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1671066740
\u201c@abughazalehkat Using the "qualifications" question as a way to discredit #Reparations is about one thing: keeping reparations from happening.\u201d— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1671066740
\u201c@abughazalehkat Apparently, @TuckerCarlson is publicly applying for the job with all that experience.\u201d— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1671066740
\u201cTucker says we\u2019ll have to use \u201cNazi race science\u201d to determine who\u2019s eligible for reparations\u2014 and he\u2019s angry about it, because this means he\u2019s found an example of using Nazi race science he can\u2019t get behind https://t.co/piR3kNvNOo\u201d— Tim Wise (@Tim Wise) 1671116395
\u201cCarlson has lost it.\u201d— Chet Ramey (@Chet Ramey) 1671077399
\u201cWho is this idiot? Surely he knows better, but ratings from the MAGA crowd more important.\u201d— El Dooderino (@El Dooderino) 1671072090
\u201cHow odious Tucker Carlson is. https://t.co/Oimipz5jfE\u201d— Crooks and Liars (@Crooks and Liars) 1671124893
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Carlson has previously used his program to complain about "race politics" but has conveniently ignored conspiracies he has been responsible for spreading.
For instance, earlier this year Carlson suggested "race politics" are responsible for political divisions across the nation in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, even going so far as to downplay the existence of White nationalist talking points in the shooter's manifesto.
The shooter—who is reported to have written a 180-page manifesto released prior to the attack—subscribed to the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which suggests White European populations and their descendants are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-European peoples, a conspiracy Carlson has often touted.
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