Tucker Carlson’s Lies Are Killing People
Grooming Domestic Terrorists for Ratings & Profit
Huh? The result of the killing of five people in Colorado at a LGBTQ+ friendly establishment is a First Amendment question, you say?
So it's those who have been repeating lies and suggesting violence who are under attack. That’s right; you told your audience the bigots are the victims.
No Tucker, you and yours absolutely persuaded a young man with a troubled past to believe in executing people was the right thing to do... That putting on body armor, bringing two guns and six magazines of ammunition into a crowded nightclub on a Saturday night would somehow make the world a better place.
You decried the violence, saying such incidents never stop “being horrifying” no matter “how many times you’ve seen it;” before going on to say assumptions being made about a motive were unfair. And that reaction to this shooting was about taking guns away from the American people.
Balderdash.
The shooter didn’t go to a movie theater, a shopping mall, or a school. He went to a bar known as a safe space for drag shows; a bar where most of the audience wasn’t straight. Given the amount of hate speech being directed at the types of humans who patronized Club Q, suggesting a connection seems more than reasonable.
Trust me, if somebody entered whatever steakhouse your gang visits on Saturday night and shot up the joint, Fox News would be the first to say it was targeting their own.
Of course, you aren’t the only one selling eliminationism. Hannity, Ingraham, Fox, Newsmax, and the right wing propaganda outlets are increasingly grooming their listeners to this sort of anti-American agenda.
Play the victim all you want; that’s how you are perceived and you know it.
Demonizing and dehumanizing LGBTQ+ humans (particularly transgender people and drag queens) as pedophilic “groomers” is what you do, in between racialized rants and attacking the mechanisms of governance. The emotions and perceptions of your audiences are manipulated by luring them in with entertaining stories and threat cues.
As if on cue, specific events and symbols are targeted by far-right social-media influencers, who have no fear about encouraging a range of levels of violence, including the extreme and lethal kinds.
This is how stochastic terrorism works, even if you spit those words out like they’re disgusting.. There is no chain of command, just the suggestion of social acceptance and advancement are achievable by taking action.
And get this: the moral justification for these responses of the faithful are more likely than not fabrications.
Tucker Carlson: These are sex crimes. And the people committing them should be punished. Now, try and say that out loud anywhere but on Fox News. You can't. Why can't you? Because it's true, that's why. You can't say the truth things. You can claim that the Earth is flat and no one gets exercised. But when you start saying things like "All lives matter" or "Sexualizing my children is a crime and if you keep it up, I'm going to hurt you because I am the dad," -- say that? You're done.
You want to know who “grooms” young people for sexual conquests? Religious leaders who betray the trust put in them by followers.
More than 10,000 Catholic priests have been credibly accused of child molestation and rape - an average of 228 cases per year since the 1950s.
An Associated Press investigation found three insurance companies in the United States that provide liability coverage for 165,000 Protestant churches typically receive 260 reports every year of children being sexually abused by Protestant clergy or other staff.
According to the Christian Ministry Resources, which serves more than 75,000 congregations and 1,000 denominational agencies nationwide, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week.
Nearly 400 Southern Baptist leaders, from youth pastors to top ministers, have pleaded guilty or been convicted of sex crimes against more than 700 victims since 1998, according to an investigation by The Houston Chronicle and The San Antonio Express-News.
The New York Times published an expose on the “sexual abuse crisis” at Evangelical churches.
According to a study sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources, 10% of Protestant churchgoers under 35 have previously left a church because they felt sexual misconduct was not taken seriously.
I’ll bet these stories won’t make the cut for your Fox News presentations.
Even if allegations about LGBTQ+ humans harming minors were true, they pale in comparison to what’s an ongoing and widespread problem. Yet you don’t see Proud Boys standing in front of mega churches trying to intimidate parishioners.
The story about the man who stopped the shooter in the New York Times is an amazing account of somebody doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Richard M. Fierro was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub. His instincts from four combat deployments as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan kicked in.
He charged through the chaos, tackled the gunman and beat him bloody with his own gun.
“I don’t know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode,” Mr. Fierro, 45, who left the Army in 2013 as a major, said on Monday at an interview in his garage, his first since the shooting on Saturday night. “I just know I have to kill this guy before he kills us…”
…Mr. Fierro, the Army combat veteran who took down the gunman, was at Club Q with his wife, Jess; their daughter, Kassandra; Mr. Vance and family friends to watch one of Kassandra’s friends perform a drag act. It was Mr. Fierro’s first time at a drag show. He said he was having fun.
“These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it,” he said in the interview on Monday. “I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever the hell they want.”
Did ya see that Tucker? The part where a Real American says “because that is what I fought for?” Go look in the mirror and ask yourself what you would have done.
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