A Fox News presenter who spread the Great Swap theory, a motivator for the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, last weekend by a white supporter, said the conspiracy theory was actually “coming from the left.”
Tucker Carlson did not mention the Great Exchange theory by name in his first broadcast since the tragic event. (Instead, he said “all lives matter” and complained about political leaders using the shooting to try to silence people like him.) But Carlson approached him on Tuesday, first saying: “This has been everywhere for the last two days and we’re still not sure what it is. “
Well, it’s not clear who “we” are, as the Fox presenter says, because Carlson himself has supported him several times. “Politically, this policy is called the ‘great deputy,’ replacing inherited Americans with more obedient people from distant lands,” Carlson said last September.
This theory has played a role in the mass killings of racists in recent years in El Paso, Texas; Pittsburgh, PA; Poway, California; and Christchurch, New Zealand. The idea that liberals and the powerful elite were deliberately “replacing” white people through mass immigration was also pushed by white torches that marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
But for Carlson, this theory “comes from the left” because “it has a strong political component in the Democratic Party’s immigration policy.”
“It simply came to our notice then. We know that. And we know it because they said so. They said it again and again and again. They have written books about him and monographs and articles in magazines, they have boasted about it endlessly. They talk about it on cable news all the time and say out loud, ‘We’re doing this because it’s helping us win elections,’ “Carlson said.
He then released a series of videos in which Democrats such as Stacey Abrams and Julian Castro said the effects of changing demographics in the United States would work in the party’s favor.
“So you can play videos that say that and you’re a crazy conspiracy lunatic!” Carlson exclaimed. “But the funny thing is, they could actually be wrong, according to a recent study. It turns out that the policy of your average El Salvador gardener is much closer to that of Donald Trump than that of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Carlson did not specify what studies suggest such a thing.
The Fox presenter cites other examples of what he claims the “left” is pushing for the theory, including a 2013 statement from the Center for American Progress.
“This group” declared that “supporting genuine immigration reform, which paves the way for the citizenship of 11 million illegal immigrants in our nation, is the only way to maintain electoral power in the future,” Carlson was quoted as saying.
“Oh, great replacement theory, someone?” These people are crazy. They tell you what their strategy is. When you see him, they shout at you and call you a criminal. “
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