Chris Hayes slammed Tucker Carlson for his rhetoric surrounding the recent crisis at the southern border where thousands of Haitians had gathered to seek entry into the U.S. The MSNBC host compared his Fox News counterpart’s remarks on immigration to those of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
This week, Carlson said President Joe Biden wants to “change the racial mix of this country” as part of a plot to replace White people.
Pointing to past examples of anti-immigrant behavior in the U.S., Hayes stated, “The fundamental message of these bigots across time is that these bad, other, dirty people, uncivilized, different than us, will overrun and replace us, the good, pure Americans.”
Hayes played six clips – three of Duke and three of Carlson – featuring very similar rhetoric regarding the racial demographics of the country.
“Gotta say,” reacted Hayes, “in a lot of those moments, Tucker Carlson is a lot more overt with his bigotry than the former KKK guy.”
“It is not just racist,” he went on. “It is also stupid.”
Hayes explained:
First of all, it’s almost too obvious to state, but I’m gonna say it anyway. No one’s being replaced. If you’re watching me right now, and let’s say the U.S. allowed every one of those Haitians to apply for asylum, you wouldn’t get kicked out
of the country. It’s not the way it works. America is not a night club where people have to come out before other people can come in. It’s actually a really big country with nearly 330 million people. So a few thousand people are not replacing anyone.Number two, the David Dukes and the Tucker Carlsons of the world want to portray the people who are trying to come here as, in Tucker’s words, “obedient,” as mindless drones imported because any will do whatever Democrats tell them. Think about it for just half a second, ok? These people have done one of the most difficult ambitious things a human being can do. Left their homes at great personal cost and risk. They crossed thousands of miles to completely foreign land where most don’t know anyone, and don’t speak the language in the slim hope of a better life. Whatever you want to call that, that’s the opposite of obedient. Whatever you want to say about the folks showing up in these conditions, these are go-getters by definition. That’s a much tougher row to hoe than just being a legacy case who cruises on your name and family connections.
“I’m sorry, but we can’t allow this vicious stupidity to win,” concluded Hayes.
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