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PTB, yes, but you don't get any points from me for recommending a pro-Tucker Carlson community.
Yeah, okay.
I didn't catch that either, that list of names didn't include Tucker Carlson when I first subbed. That is unacceptable, white nationalists should not be tolerated
I'm crossing that community out
@AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house why are allowing Tucker Carlson, an ideological white nationalist, in that community?
Good on ya for removing that shit and straight up laying out AMG here.
Reposting removing explicit X hyperlinks:
Tucker Carlson has called out Ben Shapiro for cheering on the killing of Palestinian civilians, calling it evil, while Piers Morgan defended it (X link: SuppressedNws/status/1885475171667972426)
Tucker has gotten Matt Walsh to implicitly admit that Israel shouldn't exist, because it depends on the US for its existence: (X link: abierkhatib/status/1917775533355720801)
Tucker is a member of the isolationist wing of Republicans trying to prevent war with Iran, and has called out "Mossad agents and warmongers" for derailing the talks: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-allies-say-mossad-agents-and-warmongers-trying-derail-iran-talks
Tucker hosted an interview with Thomas Massie where Massie revealed that every Republican Congressperson has an 'AIPAC babysitter' (X link: HotSpotHotSpot/status/1799169397510311993)
AIPAC is bipartisan, so I can be bipartisan too. I try to seek out and include conservative voices that are critical of Israel, and amplify the isolationist wing of the Republican party that opposes wars in the Middle East. I especially appreciate Tucker calling the killing of Palestinian civilians "evil".
Make no mistake, Tucker Carlson is an antisemite and an islamaphobe. He is not anti-israel for any humanitarian reason, he only cynically uses anti-israel talking points to push antisemitic conspiracy theories. He does not care about Palestinians or any other Muslim or arab, he considers them primitives. He should not be platformed in any respect. There is plenty of genuine critisism of Israel that's not based in antisemitic conspiracy theories, there is no need to promote Tucker Carlson is any respect.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/while-tucker-out-fox-networks-islamophobia-problem-persists
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-fired-worst-things-he-said-racism-immigrants-1234722751/
https://www.vox.com/2024/4/16/24131384/tucker-carlson-interview-israel-palestine-munther-isaac
I disagree. I think he's sincere when he calls killing children evil, and that's good. And I thought his interview with Munther Isaac was very important for breaking conservatives out of the "all Arabs are crazy Muslim and want to kill me" false belief, even if it did focus on the sufferings of the small minority of Palestinian Christians.
I don't agree with everything he's ever said or will say, he may say things I the future I have serious disagreements with. But I think the genocide in Gaza is the most pressing moral issue of our time, and am willing to build a big tent coalition to stop it and hold Israel responsible. I am also a big admirer of Hezbollah, who are very socially conservative, for what it's worth.
Tucker Carlson fundamentally considers white people superior to non-white people. His grievance is that the fascism is being overseas when the US can instead use those resources to do so against the non-whites within America. Tucker is conservative on social issues because he is a supremacist for the white Christian race. He's a domestic fascist, enthusiastic about mass deportations in the US.
This is completely separate from anti-colonialist resistance groups, who's conservatism is a reaction to colonialism. These groups, while fundamentalist, are not fascist. ISIS would be an example of a fundamentalist and fascist group.
There is no ally-ship with fascists of any variety
Didn't get catch this gem lol
Also note the handle contains a notorious genocider Stalin
Hmm