Member-only story
Yes, Tucker Carlson is Implicated in the Buffalo Terror Attack
Mainstream and extremist figures embolden each other in an unvirtuous circle of bias and hate
I get it. Blaming Tucker Carlson for what happened in Buffalo seems unfair to some of you.
After all, the terrorist who killed ten people there at a store in a Black community — because he saw the residents as part of the “great replacement” of whites by dark-skinned others — never cited Carlson in his racist manifesto, explaining his actions.
Yes, he espoused an extreme version of the same theory Carlson himself has articulated on over 400 occasions, directly or indirectly.
But surely that doesn’t mean Carlson bears any responsibility for the actions of Payton Gendron, right?
Likewise, although that same theory has been espoused in various forms by several GOP lawmakers, surely they aren’t to blame for what someone else might do with that theory, especially when they didn’t get it directly from those lawmakers, right?
