A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.
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People For Supporter –

For years, Tucker Carlson has used his show to relentlessly promote white
supremacist beliefs, giving those beliefs an enormous platform and
mainstreaming them into "conservative" ideology. The far-right
“replacement theory” – one of the Buffalo gunman's motives for executing
ten innocent people – claims that a shadowy elite cabal is seeking to
replace white Americans with immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, and
South America.

[ [link removed] ]Fox News should immediately stop promoting this racist and far-right
conspiracy theory – sign the petition today and demand that they stop
promoting it on their platforms! >>

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a letter to Fox News execs, "For
years, these types of beliefs have existed at the fringes of American
life. 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." ^[1]

According to a recent AP-NORC poll, one in three American adults now
believes in some form of replacement theory. The same poll showed that
people exposed solely to right-wing media outlets Fox News, One America
News Network, and Newsmax were more likely to believe in replacement
theory than those who watched other networks. ^[ [link removed] ]

Although this theory has existed for decades and has previously been the
motive for heinous acts of violence, it grew in popularity once
conservative commentators such as Carlson started advocating for it.
Carlson alone has mentioned the theory in over 400 episodes of his show.
Not only is the mainstreaming of this white supremacist theory disgusting,
but it is inspiring violence against communities of color, as in the
Christchurch mosque massacre in New Zealand, and most recently the Buffalo
shootings.

[2]Add your name now to the growing demand that Fox News prevent any
further amplification of this reprehensible and dangerous theory >>

The Buffalo gunman wrote a 180-page diatribe propping up the replacement
theory and other white nationalist ideology – that reads like an extended
Tucker Carlson episode. We must speak out against this threat. Fox News
has the responsibility to stop promoting these dangerous, false conspiracy
theories to millions of viewers.

Thanks for all that you do,

Zach, People For the American Way

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Sources:

[1] [ [link removed] ]"Schumer calls on Murdoch and Fox News executives to stop
amplifying replacement theory." The New York Times, 5/17/22

[2] [ [link removed] ]"Immigration Attitudes and Conspiratorial Thinkers: A Study Issued
on the 10th Anniversary of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public
Affairs Research" AP-NORC, 5/9/22

 

 

 


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