Tucker Proves He's Completely Ignorant of History With Buttigieg Attack

[Zorro]

Carlson gleefully took aim at Buttigieg for referencing a famous example of racism being designed into New York roadways, proving his own ignorance of America’s past.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson joined in on the right-wing mockery of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday night, gleefully calling Buttigieg one of the “dumbest people in the world” for saying “racism” was reflected in the design decisions of New York roads.

In the process, Carlson proved his own apparent ignorance of the historical example Buttigieg was citing.

During a Monday press conference touting the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the transportation secretary said the package would allow his department to address racial inequities in America’s highway design and transportation system. The Grio reporter April Ryan then asked Buttigieg to “give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways,” likely aware that he had mentioned the issue before.

“I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a Black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach—or it would have been—in New York, was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices,” Buttigieg responded. “I don’t think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality.”

While Republican politicians and conservative pundits wasted no time making fun of Buttigieg over his comments, he was actually referencing Robert Caro’s seminal biography The Power Broker, about former state and municipal officer Robert Moses and his efforts to reshape New York City.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-mocks-pete-buttigieg-over-racism-proves-hes-completely-ignorant-of-history

I read The Power Broker many years ago (and still have it on my bookshelf), and at that time was quite disturbed reading how Robert Moses was so instrumental in configuring NYC roadways to isolate or wreck the ethnic communities that existed in the city; the deliberately designed low underpasses to prevent bus transportation was a particularly egregious example that stood out when reading Caro's meticulous biography (subtitled "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" ). Moses was a tremendously powerful -- yet unelected -- figure in city politics for decades, and the effects of his unchallenged authority linger with us today.

[Botany]

1. Calling Buttigieg one of the "dumbest people in the world." Top of his class High School, Harvard..

...Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, & Oxford. (but none of that matters to Tucker's mouth breathing fox watchers)

From Wiki:

Education

Buttigieg was valedictorian of the class of 2000 at St. Joseph High School in South Bend. That year, he won first prize in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's Profiles in Courage essay contest. He traveled to Boston to accept the award and met Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy's family. The subject of his winning essay was the integrity and political courage of then U.S. representative Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of only two independent politicians in Congress. In 2000, Buttigieg was also chosen as one of two student delegates from Indiana to the United States Senate Youth Program, an annual scholarship competition sponsored jointly by the U.S. Senate and the Hearst Foundations.

After graduating from St. Joseph High School, Buttigieg attended Harvard University, where he majored in history and literature. He became president of the Student Advisory Committee of the Harvard Institute of Politics and worked on the institute's annual study of youth attitudes on politics. He wrote his undergraduate thesis, titled The Quiet American's Errand into the Wilderness, on the influence of Puritanism on U.S. foreign policy as reflected in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2004, and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Buttigieg was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. In 2007, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics after studying at Pembroke College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was an editor of the Oxford International Review, and was a co-founder ..and member of the Democratic Renaissance Project, an informal debate and discussion group of approximately a dozen Oxford students.

[dutch777]

2. Tucker can get away with this ad nauseum because his audience is even more ignorant than he is

We can criticize the Repugs and their talking heads for this all day long....lots of easy targets. But the real issue is all the low knowledge followers that will never get it and will keep voting R.

[LakeArenal]

3. If Carlson calls you stupid it's because he knows you are way smarter than Yucker.

[mitch96]

4. " Tucker can get away with this ad nauseum". I think he just says this stuff to see what

sticks. Like throwing shit against the wall b/c that's what comes out of his mouth...
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[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. I'm going to hazard a guess that it's not just roadways either

Given the existence of the phrase 'the wrong side of the tracks' ...

[Firestorm49]

6. Carlson doesn't care. The idiot dwindling base will eat up whatever he says.

And this is what gives me hope in our survival as a country. As hard as it is to accept, there are reasonably minded Republicans who don’t buy into the stream of BS emanating from their party or from FAUX entertainment. I believe that there is a vast majority of Americans who do, in fact, have the ability to separate fly shit from pepper. They just don’t get press coverage - another travesty. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. But enough with the corny lines.

[lagomorph777]

7. Tucker Pretends He's Completely Ignorant of History With Buttigieg Attack

These RW idiots know they're lying.

[lees1975]

8. I read the Power Broker as well

and beyond what it documents, there's evidence that this sort of thing happened everywhere. It went hand in hand with "red lining" that was aimed at segregating neighborhoods and preserving property values in white areas.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Thus the glee.

Tucker lies and Buttigieg has to waste time explaining, freeing Tucker to lie some more.