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Seth Meyers opened his first present since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 individuals at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, by solemnly lamenting the “absolute nightmare” of a “story we’ve now seen dozens and dozens of occasions.”
Shortly after these opening feedback—and a darkly humorous, outrage-filled musical efficiency from Late Night time author Amber Ruffin—Meyers turned to one of many essential figures who helped unfold the terrorist’s hateful ideology: Fox Information host Tucker Carlson.
“With distinguished figures on the proper embracing and parroting the harmful white nationalist conspiracy principle recognized the Nice Substitute, it’s value noting that along with being deeply racist, bigoted and dehumanizing, it’s additionally extremely silly,” Meyers mentioned on the prime of his newest “A Nearer Look” section.
His two essential examples had been Donald Trump, who spent his campaigns and presidency fear-mongering about an “invasion” of immigrants, and Carlson, who earlier this yr was denying the existence of “right-wing home terrorism.”
At one level, Carlson tried to calm concern by noting that the “mixed membership of each white supremacist group on this nation would have the ability to match inside a university soccer stadium.”
“To begin with, a university soccer stadium can match like 100,000 individuals, which is a ton of individuals!” Meyers shot again, placing a photograph of a packed crowd on the display screen. “If I advised you, ‘Don’t fear, I rounded up all of the white supremacists’ and walked you into right here, I don’t assume your response can be, ‘Phew!’”
Carlson solely “needs to faux” white supremacy isn’t an issue,” Meyers argued, “as a result of he’s additionally brazenly and repeatedly promoted substitute principle on his present.”
After enjoying a montage of Carlson pushing the rhetoric that ended up within the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto, Meyers concluded that these concepts should not solely “clearly racist, harmful and dehumanizing” but additionally “extremely silly.”
“Nobody is being changed. There’s no capability restrict right here. It’s not like there’s a bouncer who solely lets two in when two depart,” he mentioned, including later, “Simply take into consideration how breathtakingly dumb the logic right here is. Nobody will get changed when one other particular person enters the nation.”
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