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applegrove

(118,787 posts)
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:56 PM May 2022

Tucker Carlson and the Buffalo Shooter, Compared

Tucker Carlson and the Buffalo Shooter, Compared

May 16, 2022 at 12:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 201 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/16/tucker-carlson-and-the-buffalo-shooter-compared/

"SNIP......

Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show in 2018:

How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?

Do you get along better with your neighbors, your co-workers if you can’t understand each other or share no common values? Please be honest as you answer this question.


The Buffalo gunman in a 180-page manifesto explaining his motivations behind last weekend’s mass shooting:

Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why? It is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum “diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength, diversity is our greatest strength…” Said throughout the media, spoken by politicians, educators and celebrities. But no one ever seems to give a reason why.

......SNIP"

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Kid Berwyn

(14,964 posts)
1. Brainwashed know-nothing.
Mon May 16, 2022, 05:32 PM
May 2022

What brain space he had got filled by Tucker Carlson and a planet full of VRWC NAZI nut jobs.

genxlib

(5,536 posts)
3. Try fielding a football team with 22 offensive linemen
Mon May 16, 2022, 06:04 PM
May 2022

And find out where diversity makes you better.

Idiots.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,764 posts)
7. "I'm just an entertainer. I have no responsibility for anything I put out there."
Tue May 17, 2022, 12:51 PM
May 2022

As a screenwriter, do you know how many times I heard that discussing the problems I have teaching students that idolize, talk, act, and dress like people in music videos with people who makes these videos?

"I gave it up because he slung cocaine." So my boys things pushing leads to money, importance, and hot girls.

"I'm just an entertainer. I have no influence on how people choose to live their lives." I guess if you lie about that to yourself enough times, you'll believe your lie of self-deception.

Tucker is the same way. . .by the way, who is the "They" in "that's what they're telling you."

Marthe48

(17,027 posts)
8. The pimple wouldn't get it
Tue May 17, 2022, 03:43 PM
May 2022

But getting out of your gene pool is healthy for your species.

Some things immigrants, people of color, and women did that made America stronger because of opening the borders to immigrants, migrants and refugees, but the disgusting piece of dirt will never acknowledge:

Immigrants have given the United States some of the best inventions: the telephone, Google, blue jeans, video games and basketball, to name a few.

Dr. Richard Drew pioneered lifesaving blood donation and banking practices we use today, although the media face probably prefers sucking blood out of unwilling victims

Dr. Severo Ochoa discovered an enzyme that unraveled the secrets of the human genetic code, but I imagine the blood-sucking media face isn't interested in our species' genetics

Mother Jones labor organizing, Hedy Lamarr technology that led to Bluetooth and WiFi, Grace Jones, singing, acting, gender-bending and racial barrier breaking, and Salma Hayek, who shed a searchlight on sexual harassment in the workplace, among her other accomplishments. These women were all immigrants that pushed boundaries and made America better and stronger, and make the blood-sucking media face look even more pathetic and puny than he does every time he blathers.


Some things I have trouble doing:
Naming a single food that is American
Naming a single item that represent our culture or heritage that is not lifted from some other heritage or culture.

applegrove

(118,787 posts)
9. Plus young adults want to live in cities with varied culture and food. Immigrants to cities in the
Tue May 17, 2022, 03:46 PM
May 2022

midwest are one way to keep these young adults from moving to the coasts to find diversity and interest.

Marthe48

(17,027 posts)
10. Great point
Tue May 17, 2022, 04:00 PM
May 2022

Marietta, Oh is a river town, so lots of coming and going, plus had international production plants located here, which brought people from all over the country and the world, who stayed and had their families here. Modern day immigration and migration. Shutting the door on immigration will be an American tragedy. Trying to bury their heads in the sand and pretend people of color don't exist is just making the problems we have all the worse.

wnylib

(21,611 posts)
15. I can name some American foods.
Wed May 18, 2022, 12:54 AM
May 2022

After, all, there were people here before immigrants came from all over the world.

Corn, tomatoes, potatoes, turkey, cranberries, maple syrup.

Those foods have blended into the mix, of course. But they are American originals.

ancianita

(36,137 posts)
12. Both are willfully illiterate, only one has an audience and the other a gun.
Tue May 17, 2022, 09:26 PM
May 2022

Courts should sentence them both to serve time in confinement in the history section of their libraries.

prodigitalson

(2,431 posts)
16. Close enough to be plagiarism
Wed May 18, 2022, 06:07 AM
May 2022

Seriously, if he turned in a paper for a college class that had wording that close to someone else, he would be in trouble.

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