Tuesday 17 May 2022 08:31 PM Biden refuses to mention Tucker Carlson by name when asked on replacement theory trends now
President Joe Biden on Tuesday would not call out Tucker Carlson or any other official by name even as he criticized them for touting 'replacement theory.'
'I believe anybody who acts as a replacement is to blame - not for this particular crime, but it's for no purpose, no purpose, except profit and/or political benefit. And it's wrong. It's just simply wrong,' he told reporters as he prepared to leave Buffalo.
Earlier Biden called on all Americans to reject the 'lie' of the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory and slammed those who tout it as out for power and political gain.
Biden issued his call in an emotional speech in Buffalo after a suspect killed 10 people during a grocery store shooting in what's being called a racially motivated attack. The president choked up when he talked about one of the victims, who was killed while shopping for a birthday cake for his three-year-old son.
President Joe Biden doesn't call out Tucker Carlson by name as he slams those who push 'replacement theory'
Tucker Carlson said the document written by Buffalo grocery store shooting suspect Payton Gendron was 'crazy' and the product of a 'diseased mind
'Hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word,' he said.
And Biden called out those in politics and the media who have spread the 'great replacement theory,' a conspiracy theory that claims non-white individuals are being brought into the United States to 'replace' white voters to achieve a political agenda.
The once-fringe racist idea became a popular refrain among media figures like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News. Some Republicans have been accused of espousing ideas similar to it.
Biden called it a 'hate' that 'through the media and politics, the internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost, and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced. That's the word, 'Replaced,' by the other. By people who don't look like them, and you are therefore, in their perverse ideology, that they are being fed and possessed, lesser beings.'
'I call on all Americans to reject the lie, and I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit,' Biden said. 'That's what it is. We have now seen too many times the deadly and destructive violence this ideology and unleashes.'
Biden also said the majority of America was made of minorities.
'We are the most multiracial, most dynamic nation in the history of the world. Now is the time for people of all races, every background, to speak up as a majority in America and reject white supremacy,' he said.
'These hate filled attacks represent the views of the hateful minority. We can't allow them to destroy America, the real America. We can't allow them to destroy the soul of the nation,' he added.
Whites are heading toward minority status in the United States. In 2018, U.S. Census estimates showed for the first time that whites dropped to below 50% of the under-15 population.
That change is largely due to
