Tucker Carlson says Joe Biden’s executive orders promoting racial ‘equity’ would ‘disgust’ Martin Luther King Jr, will lead to Republican voters being treated as ‘jihadis’ and the Democrats forcing millions to agree with their views.
‘Vote the wrong way, and you are a jihadi. You thought you were an American citizen with rights and just a different view. No, you’re a jihadi. And we are going to treat you the way we treated those radicals after 9/11, the way we treated bin Laden. Get in line pal, this is a war on terror,’ Carlson told his viewers on Tuesday night.
‘They’re talking about American citizens here. They’re talking about you’, Carlson added while acknowledging his audience.
Biden signed four orders on Tuesday designed to tackle inequality in housing and the prison system, condemn xenophobia and reaffirm the government’s commitment to tribal sovereignty. He also called Trump’s 1776 Project ‘ignorance and lies’ and said George Floyd’s death has ‘opened the eyes of millions fighting white supremacy’.
In an impassioned speech on his Fox News show, Carlson said the policies will harm people the government deem to be ‘privileged’ and force the country to ‘conform to the orthodoxies of the Democratic party’.
He also attacked Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff’s crackdown on white supremacy and compared it to the hunt for international terrorists after 9/11.
Tucker Carlson has slammed Joe Biden for signing a series of executive orders to promote racial ‘equity’
He said policies of ‘equity and inclusion’ allow Democrats to force their ‘indefensible’ views on the country that would even ‘disgust’ Martin Luther King Jr.
‘The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be shocked and disgusted if he watched Susan Rice on television,’ Carlson said.
‘She announced that every agency in the US government, the largest and most lavishly funded organization in human history, must “place equity at the core” of its policy design specifically and for the benefit of “marginalized communities”.
‘According to Rice, much of that money will now be distributed on the basis of equity. That means it will go to people who do not possess “privilege”.
‘Some Americans won’t get jobs because it’s been decided they have too much privilege. Others won’t get into college or get promoted or win federal contracts. Others will see their neighborhoods change dramatically in ways they may not like because of their privilege.’
Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice outlined some of the executive orders and memos Biden would sign later Tuesday during the press briefing
But, Carlson said: ‘They can’t tell us who, in a country with no majority culture, actually qualifies as a “minority”. They only want to have this conversation at all because their views are indefensible.’
The Fox host continued his invective by talking about press censorship and the ‘muzzling’ of conservative views which has seen right-wing social media site Parler being taken off app stores.
He then quoted Adam Schiff, the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, who said he intends to go after white nationalists and domestic terrorists with the same resources as the country did to international terrorism after 9/11, shifting the priority of Homeland Security.
The Democrat representative said if the Capitol rioters were of a different religion, they would be seen as ‘violent jihadists’.
Carlson said of Schiff’s remarks: ‘Equity and inclusion means that you will believe what they tell you to believe, or else you’re a terrorist and they can hurt you because we hurt terrorists.
Announcing his orders Tuesday, Biden said: ‘I’ll be reaffirming the federal government’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration.’
Susan Rice, the director of the United States Domestic Policy Council, added at the briefing: ‘Today the average black family has just one-tenth the wealth as the average white family.
‘These aren’t feel good policies, the evidence is clear, investing in equity is good for economic growth and it creates jobs for all Americans.’
‘Vote the wrong way, and you are a jihadi. You thought you were an American citizen with rights and just a different view, but no, you’re a jihadi and we’re going to treat you the way we treated those radicals after 9/11, the way we treated bin Laden.’
Biden signed four orders on Tuesday including one that instructs the Department of Justice not to renew contracts with private prisons. He also signed a memorandum directing the Department of Housing and Urban Development to mitigate racial bias in housing.
He signed an order reaffirming the federal government’s commitment to tribal sovereignty.
And he signed a memorandum condemning xenophobia against Asian Americans, which has been on the rise since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – taking aim at former President Donald Trump’s use of the term ‘China virus.’
Biden credited the death of George Floyd as an inflection point turning America against ‘systemic racism and white supremacy.’
‘Those eight minutes and 46 seconds that took George Floyd’s life, opened the eyes of millions of Americans and millions of people all over the world,’ Biden said. ‘It was the knee on the neck of justice and it wouldn’t be forgotten.
‘It stirred the consciousness of tens of millions of Americans and in my view it marked a turning point in this country’s attitude toward racial justice,’ Biden continued.
Just hours into his presidency, Biden dissolved Trump’s 1776 Commission, which was formed in September partially in response to The New York Times’ 1619 Project.
It became highly controversial for trying to reframe American history as starting with the arrival of the first slaves in 1619 and being defined by first slavery and then its aftermath ever since.
It drew heated attacks over its accuracy – particularly a claim that the inspiration for the Declaration of Independence from Britain was in part because the colonies wanted to ‘protect the institution of slavery.’
As part of his pre-election culture war, Trump attacked the project and called for American children to be given a ‘patriotic education’ not one that demonizes the white founders.
That same month, he banned racial sensitivity training for federal workers and government contractors – including critical race theory, another lightning rod for controversy.
Trump had also embraced a ‘law and order’ candidacy and etched out policy positions such as statues and military bases named after Confederate generals should remain.