Friend,

Just before shooting 10 people in a predominantly Black neighborhood in
Buffalo, NY, on Saturday, Payton Gendron posted a 180-page violent, white
supremacist manifesto online.(1)

Gendron's deadly rampage was fueled by “replacement theory” -- and no
public figure has promoted this bogus white supremacist thought more than
Tucker Carlson.(2)

For years, Carlson has used his platform of millions of viewers to claim
that white people are being purposely “replaced” by people of color, and
there is no question that Gendron acted on this white supremacist
conspiracy when he targeted a predominantly Black community.(3)

Fox "News" has refused to rein in Carlson and the rest of its white
supremacist crew, and the whole network needs to go.

[ [link removed] ]Sign our petition calling on Comcast, Charter, and other cable
companies to hold Fox "News" accountable and suspend the network
immediately.

It’s not just Buffalo that suffered violence from “replacement theory.”
The 2019 shooting at a mosque in New Zealand and the 2018 shooting at a
synagogue in Pittsburgh were both inspired by this hateful rhetoric.(4)

And Carlson is largely responsible for taking “replacement theory"
mainstream. The Washington Post had already noted before Gendron’s mass
shooting that “Tucker Carlson has been especially aggressive about
promoting this idea.”(5) Just two weeks ago, the New York Times covered
how Carlson is stoking white supremacism -- an article that Carlson
proudly displayed while laughing on Twitter.(6)

Fox "News" has had ample opportunity to stop Carlson’s white supremacist
media machine, but instead has doubled down on him. Not only did the
communications office of Fox "News" reject the notion that Carlson was to
blame for the shooting, the entire network ignored the incident entirely,
refusing to give it more than cursory coverage while it was the main story
on every other network, and not giving one mention of the shooter’s
manifesto.(7)

Grassroots energy was able to kick Donald Trump off Twitter, and One
America News Network off satellite television, and now we need to convince
Charter, Comcast, and the rest of the cable networks to deplatform Fox
"News" now.

[ [link removed] ]Sign now and tell cable companies: Suspend Fox "News" now!

Yours in the fight against media violence and disinformation,

Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie,
Mai, Mai, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)

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