John Legend isn’t holding back his criticism of Tucker Carlson. In a tweet thread on Monday, the singer called out the Fox News host and other right-wing commentators for pushing the “evil ideology” known as Great Replacement theory.
He began by retweeting a clip reel assembled by “The Mehdi Hasan Show” of Carlson promoting the theory, a white nationalist conspiracy theory claiming elites in western countries are aiding the demographic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white, mostly Muslim people from the Middle East and Africa. READ MORE: At Least 10 Dead In ‘Racially Motivated’ Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket: Police According to Legend, Tucker and others’ dissemination of the theory continues to “poison the minds of millions,” adding, “They have contributed to multiple terrorist massacres,” and calling it “sick and dangerous.” The tweet comes after a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, on Saturday, in which the alleged perpetrator referred to the “great replacement” in tweets.
The 18-year-old alleged shooter opened fire at a grocery store in the city, killing 10 people and wounding three more, the majority of whom were Black.
In a 180-page manifesto, he reportedly decried a decrease in birth rates among white people, likening it to genocide, and that the shoppers were trying to “ethnically replace my own people.” Other massacres in recent years have also been tied to the conspiracy theory, including the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11, where the gunman had blamed Jews for helping immigrant “invaders” enter the U.S.
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