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17.05.2022 - 22:29 / deadline.com
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts.
The letter came following the deadly shooting rampage in Buffalo, NY, over the weekend, in which 10 people were killed. The alleged shooter had, according to a manifesto posted online, been an adherent of the “replacement theory,” or the belief that elites are trying to replace native born Americans with non-white immigrants for political gain.
“For years , these types of beliefs have existed at the fringes of American life,” Schumer wrote in the letter. “However, this pernicious theory , which has no basis in fact, has been injected into the mainstream thanks in large part to a dangerous level of amplification by your network and its anchors.”
Schumer did not mention Tucker Carlson in the text of the letter, but cc’d him. On Monday, Schumer directly called out Carlson in a speech on the Senate floor, citing a New York Times series that found that the Fox host “spewed rhetoric that echoes replacement theory at least 400 times on his show since 2016.”
In his letter — which the Times published here — Schumer quoted a Monday editorial from The Wall Street Journal, owned by Murdoch’s News Corp., which said that politicians and media had an obligation to “condemn…such conspiratorial notions as replacement theory.”
Schumer, though, wrote that “words of condemnation are hardly enough.”
“To this end, I implore you to immediately cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far -right conspiracy theories on your network,” he wrote.
Schumer wrote on Twitter that Carlson invited him on his show on Tuesday night,
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including members of the Republican party. It suggests that liberal politicians, particularly in the Democratic party, are part of a plot to replace ‘real,’ by which they mean, white Americans with minorities and especially immigrants.
Karine Jean-Pierre devoted the start of her first press briefing as White House Press Secretary on Monday by paying tribute to the 10 victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, as authorities point to the suspect’s embrace of a ‘great replacement” theory that elites are “replacing” white voters with more obedient non-white immigrants.
here and below.10 KILLED IN RACIALLY MOTIVATED SHOOTING: As the country reels after a weekend of mass shooting — including a massacre that targeted a predominantly Black community on Saturday in Buffalo, New York — #TheView panel discusses. https://t.co/sPrsWwOgJV pic.twitter.com/0X9xfrkwUALater in the show, Ana Navarro nearly came to tears as she furiously called out people she believes are responsible for perpetuating the Great Replacement theory, including Tucker Carlson, Elise Stefanik, and other members of the GOP.“I think it’s time to name names and point fingers,” Navarro said. “Tucker Carlson mentioned the great replacement theory, or some version of that, more than 400 times on his show since 2016, according to The New York Times.
immigration of nonwhite people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than other populations.The conspiracy theory's more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement plan: White nationalists marching at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned deadly in 2017 chanted “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!”A more mainstream view in the U.S. baselessly suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration from Latin America so more like-minded potential voters replace “traditional” Americans, says Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.WHAT ARE THIS CONSPIRACY THEORY'S ORIGINS?How long has racism existed? Broadly speaking, the roots of this “theory” are that deep.
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