Tucker Carlson peddled a white supremacist conspiracy theory while attacking Biden over the Haitian migrant crisis

Fox News host Tucker Carlson

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• Tucker Carlson pushed the white supremacist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory on his show Wednesday.
• Carlson baselessly accused Biden of "eugenics" as he railed against the president on immigration.
• He falsely suggested the president once said that "non-white DNA" is the source of America's strength.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson unabashedly pushed the white supremacist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory on his show Wednesday night as he baselessly accused President Joe Biden of "eugenics" and allowing migrants to flood into the US in order to "change the racial mix of the country."

Carlson's Wednesday night attacks on Biden came as the president faces rampant criticism over an escalating crisis at the border involving Haitian migrants. "American citizens owe no debt to Haiti," Carlson said, while lambasting the Biden administration over the fact the White House called images of Border Patrol whipping at Haitian migrants "horrific."

Contrary to Carlson's claims, however, the Biden administration is currently moving to deport thousands of Haitians - and facing major pushback from Democrats and activists over the treatment of the migrants as a result.

"You've got to ask yourself, as you watch the historic tragedy that is Joe Biden's immigration policy, what's the point of this? Nothing about it is an accident, obviously. It is intentional. Biden did it on purpose. But why? Why would a president do this to his own country? No sane, first-world nation opens its borders to the world," Carlson said.

He went on to say, "There's only one plausible answer ... To reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the third world ... In political terms, this policy is sometimes called the great replacement - the replacement of legacy Americans, with more obedient people from faraway countries."

The Fox News host explicitly invoked the white supremacist "replacement" conspiracy theory, rhetoric often linked to hate groups that he has used before.

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White nationalist and far-right groups have consistently pushed the racist conspiracy theory that people of color are vying to replace white people.

Talk of "white genocide" is common among white supremacist groups. During the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, the white nationalists in attendance chanted: "Jews will not replace us."

Carlson, who is the most-watched host on cable news, has repeatedly echoed these bigoted talking points on his show. Critics say he's mainstreaming white supremacy.

-nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) September 17, 2021

On Tuesday, he warned of a migrant "invasion" at the US-Mexico border.

Carlson in April contended that Democratic lawmakers are "importing a brand new electorate" of "Third World" immigrants to "dilute" American voters. Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson at the time amid calls from the Anti-Defamation League for him to be fired. "A full review of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson decried and rejected replacement theory," Murdoch said. "As Mr. Carlson himself stated during the guest interview: 'White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question.'"

But Carlson in his segment on Wednesday made explicit references to "non-white DNA," while effectively accusing Biden of pushing a policy of eugenics against whites.

Carlson was taking remarks made by Biden as vice president during a 2015 summit on terrorism out of context.

At the time, Biden lauded the "unrelenting stream of immigration" to the US that began in the 1700s, and said it's not a "bad thing" that it's projected white people in the US will eventually be a minority. Biden was touting diversity, and the immigrant tradition in the US, as a source of American strength.

Carlson misconstrued Biden's words, and falsely said, "[Biden] said that non-White DNA is the, quote, source of our strength. Imagine saying that this is the language of eugenics. It's horrifying." Biden never said this.

Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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