Twitter Dubs Tucker Carlson ‘Face of Modern White Nationalism’ for Slavery Commentary (Video)

[...] 150 years ago ... slavery was the rule rather than the exception, Fox News host says

Tucker Carlson’s analysis of President Trump’s already infamous press conference on Tuesday included his own thoughts on racism and the history of slavery in America.

Carlson also pointed out that former president “Thomas Jefferson was undisputedly a great man … he was maybe most importantly, the greatest political thinker in American history,” he said.

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While that is a moral taint, Carlson said, “to the fanatics on the left it means that Jefferson must be purged from public memory forever … watch out Abraham Lincoln, you’re next.”

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Later in the show when discussing the toppling of a Confederate memorial statue in Durham, North Carolina, Carlson said: I’m not, for whatever it’s worth, not very sympathetic to the confederacy, I’m an American and I’m against insurrections, period.

Needless to say, Carlson’s opinions sparked strong reactions on social media, with one Twitter user saying:  

“To be clear, a woman was literally MURDERED by Neo Nazi/Klan violence and Tucker Carlson is whining about the loss of the confederate statue,” another wrote.

To be clear, a woman was literally MURDERED by Neo Nazi/Klan violence and Tucker Carlson is whining about the loss of the confederate statue