Tucker Carlson All Out Embraces 'Great Replacement' Theory

Tucker Carlson offered a full-throated embrace of the white supremacist “great replacement” theory Monday on Fox News , mere months after trying to distance himself from it in the wake of a racially motivated massacre in New York.

“The great replacement? Yeah, it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s their electoral strategy,” the Fox News host said , as the words “Democrats often celebrate demographic change” appeared on screen.

The racist conspiracy theory claims that white Christians are being intentionally replaced by immigrants, people of color and non-Christians. It’s been touted by multiple racially motivated mass shooters, including the one who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store  in Buffalo, New York, in May; the man who gunned down 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019; and the shooter who massacred 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso later that year.

Carlson attracted renewed criticism for peddling the theory on his show after a manifesto written by the Buffalo shooter was found to reference it. At the time, Carlson acted as though he’d barely heard of it .

“You’ve heard a lot about the great replacement theory recently; it’s everywhere … we’re still not sure exactly what it is,” he said, even though he’d previously mentioned it on his show more than 400 times .

His comments drew fresh condemnation Thursday.

“The difference between a Tucker Carlson monologue and a white supremacist mass murderer’s manifesto is the Tucker Carlson monologue gets aired in prime-time on the nation’s most-watched cable news network,” said Matthew Gertz , a senior fellow at media watchdog Media Matters.

Carlson’s program often revolves around us-versus-them rhetoric, trying to convince his viewers that Democrats and other unnamed left-wing forces are acting to control them and change their way of life, in part by importing immigrants to change voting demographics.