It’s time for Fox News to take Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham off the
air.
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Demand advertisers drop "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and "The Ingraham
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Dear John.
With Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham on air, hate speech has two nightly
platforms on Fox News.
Tucker Carlson, host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, recently launched into a
racist hate fueled monologue against Rep. IIhan Omar calling her “a living
fire alarm” for being a Black, immigrant, and Muslim Congresswoman
fighting for our country to live up to its ideals. Tucker also made
grossly dehumanizing generalizations about immigrants that would get most
users banned from social media platforms. Smears like this are ripped
directly from white nationalist talking points to otherize, paint us as
threats, and engender violence towards Omar and Black migrants.
Advertisers should not be underwriting this hate speech. We've stopped
advertisers from funding hate on Fox before, and we're going to do it
again. [ [link removed] ]Demand advertisers drop "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and “The
Ingraham Angle."
Fox News Laura Ingraham recently defended white supremacist Paul Nehlen
and dismissed the ongoing debate surrounding reparations for descendants
of slaves with inflammatory coded remarks copied straight from white
supremacist Richard Spencer. According to Laura Ingraham’s justification
for the 250 years of brutal exploitation of Black people, white people
“won,” and Black people “lost.”
Ingraham explicitly told the world that America is a white nation, white
settlers have triumphed, and Black people must deal with the resulting
exploitation. Mythologizing the brutality and impact of slavery, and
promoting mysgynistic anti-immigration racism should not be a depiction of
American news.
[ [link removed] ]Fox News is an incubator of right-wing political propaganda. Demand
advertisers drop “The Ingraham Angle" and "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Ingraham and Carlson have made careers providing on-ramps for hateful
ideologies. These two are much more than a foil characters in political
theater. They are consistent political voices who scapegoat class theory
to push hateful, racist remarks. Carlson and Ingraham’s comments are a
chilling reminder of the power of media and the speed at which it can
disrupt positive change and silence productive and progressive discourse.
Allowing Tucker Carlson or Laura Ingraham to continue to broadcast hate
speech on a national platform is not enabling freedom of speech, but
promoting a dangerous ideology that has taken the lives of many within US
borders.
It is time advertisers stop enabling political pundits who serve as
representatives for white supremacist ideologies.
[ [link removed] ]Stand with Rep. Omar and demand advertisers to drop these shows.
Until justice is real,
--Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Eesha, Samantha, Marcus,
FolaSade and the rest of the Color Of Change team
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References:
1. “Tucker Carlson’s Racism Is Not “Political,” GQ, December 19th, 2018,
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2. “Laura Ingraham on Reparations: "It's Called Conquest … We Won, You
Lost, That's That,” Media Matters, June 20, 2019,
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3. “Laura Ingraham Ranting about Reparations Sounds a Lot Like White
Supremacist Richard Spencer,” Media Matters, June 21, 2019,
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