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“ | The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. | „ |
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, popularly known as Tucker Carlson, (born May 16, 1969) is an American political commentator. He is well known for his work on Fox News, He is the host of his daily talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight, infamous for being very far-right.
Villainy
- He has widely supported Vladimir Putin in the invasion of Ukraine, believing that "anything less than hating Putin is treason".
- He has been accused of sexual misconduct by several, along with fellow hosts Sean Hannity and Howard Kurtz.
- Many of his commentaries support COVID denialism, often downplaying the severity of the pandemic and fighting against vaccines. Fox News as such has been on the verge of getting lawsuits if these statements resulted in the deaths of such due to misinformation.
- He supported Israel's oppression against Palestinians in order to legitimize his ethnonationalist views for the United States to continue having a majority white population.
- He has engaged in historical denialism relating to Christopher Columbus' treatment of Native Americans in the Caribbean by stating that the majority of the natives' deaths were attributed to disease, despite the evidence refuting these claims.