Was I the only one who just assumed Tucker was sending racist texts like since the invention of the text?

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When I read the text to DH (super liberal), he asked if the thing Fox considered bad and fireable was the racist thing he said about white men fighting or if it was that he had a moment of introspection and decided not to wish death on the "antifa kid."

I don't think this is a redeeming moment for Tucker, but I can't imagine this is nearly the worst thing he said that others were aware of.

I hate to say it but I agree with JD Vance on this one. I don't see what's so bad about his text that would make Fox fire him. Your husband's point about his moment of introspection makes the most sense.

Tucker was expressing that he didn’t view these Trump supporters as the bad guys, so he expected them to fight like good guys. He was trying to process how people he identified with were behaving like street thugs. In his mind, Trump supporters = His kind of people; Antifa = the Enemy; and common street fighters aren’t middle to upper middle class white guys. It was hard to square his worldview with what he was watching and his own bloodlust.

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Absolutely no shock that we'd find out that Carlson would say something like this.

Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’

A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race.

The discovery of the message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Mr. Carlson’s firing.

In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking “an Antifa kid.”

[...]

More:
https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/02/carlsons-text-that-alarmed-fox-leaders-its-not-how-white-men-fight/

Yeah, I don’t believe this story. How is this text different than what he said on air every night?

^This. None of this makes sense. Tucker is more offensive than this all the time. The people who find this text offensive aren’t Fox viewers, so why would Fox care?

There are claims that Fox officials were afraid this would come up in the Dominion trial, but didn’t Fox settle with Dominion before they fired Tucker? This text doesn’t even seem relevant to the Dominion case, and it’s not like Fox viewers were going to see any substantive coverage of the Dominion trial anyway.

But you raise a good question and assuming you apply the term racist without caring which race is crapping on which, then yes, also racist

I’m someone who hates the random spray of “racist” at anything even vaguely race related, but to break it down IMHO:

His comment implies that people who are not racially white fight (because of their race) in cowardly ways and as such is textbook racist

Just as racist as it would be to say that black people are dumb

I guess he could mumble something about culture but OTOH I’m sure he’s said way worse that just hasn’t come out

I'm not even sure how what he said is racist. If a black guy said "this is not how black men fight," would that be racist?

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Anonymous wrote:What is so bad about this clip? The left wing outrage machine turns anything into shock!

IMO, it's "shocking" that he thinks white men don't fight this way. But, then again, he is an idiot, so. maybe it's not so shocking he said that.

He’s an upper class white man and their way to “fight” uppity people is to get their white establishment business and government friends to fire them, evict them, foreclose on them, stop and frisk them, arrest them for nothing and hold them without bail, purge their voter registrations, build a freeway that displaces their neighborhood, etc. That’s the way establishment white men fight. Mobs are for rednecks, hillbillies, and cowboys.

White men fight using lawyers, as everyone knows

He’s so gross

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When I read the text to DH (super liberal), he asked if the thing Fox considered bad and fireable was the racist thing he said about white men fighting or if it was that he had a moment of introspection and decided not to wish death on the "antifa kid."

I don't think this is a redeeming moment for Tucker, but I can't imagine this is nearly the worst thing he said that others were aware of.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is so bad about this clip? The left wing outrage machine turns anything into shock!

IMO, it's "shocking" that he thinks white men don't fight this way. But, then again, he is an idiot, so. maybe it's not so shocking he said that.

He’s an upper class white man and their way to “fight” uppity people is to get their white establishment business and government friends to fire them, evict them, foreclose on them, stop and frisk them, arrest them for nothing and hold them without bail, purge their voter registrations, build a freeway that displaces their neighborhood, etc. That’s the way establishment white men fight. Mobs are for rednecks, hillbillies, and cowboys.

+1million. people like him have others fight for them,

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Yes, he said he felt bad that for a moment he put politics first and wanted the white guys to beat up or kill the antifa.

Fox News is just leaking whatever they can to damage Tucker, leaking to the same journalists who regularly attack Fox News.

They are trying to justify their decision that has destroyed the network's ratings.
They have boosted NewsMax substantially, though that is from a very low number.

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Anonymous wrote:What is so bad about this clip? The left wing outrage machine turns anything into shock!

IMO, it's "shocking" that he thinks white men don't fight this way. But, then again, he is an idiot, so. maybe it's not so shocking he said that.

He’s an upper class white man and their way to “fight” uppity people is to get their white establishment business and government friends to fire them, evict them, foreclose on them, stop and frisk them, arrest them for nothing and hold them without bail, purge their voter registrations, build a freeway that displaces their neighborhood, etc. That’s the way establishment white men fight. Mobs are for rednecks, hillbillies, and cowboys.

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Anonymous wrote:What is so bad about this clip? The left wing outrage machine turns anything into shock!

IMO, it's "shocking" that he thinks white men don't fight this way. But, then again, he is an idiot, so. maybe it's not so shocking he said that.

I agree. This boils down to "dumbass said dumbass thing." The shocking thing here is that Fox News actually held him to account.