For weeks, Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show has featured racist attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement and protests following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
In an effort to radicalize his audience against those advocating for racial justice, Carlson has framed the movement, the protesters, and those who have offered public displays of solidarity for them in extreme and deliberately misleading ways.
Carlson has called demonstrators “thugs” and “vampires,” said the protests have “nothing to do with civil rights,” and claimed Democrats and Black Lives Matter supporters are advocating for “a permanently unequal society where some citizens are elevated and others are crushed.”
Many of these remarks came during Carlson's monologues on his Fox show. On Friday, the head writer for that show, Blake Neff, resigned following a CNN report that he had used horribly bigoted language on an online forum for years. He had recently bragged that anything Carlson read off the teleprompter, “the first draft was written by me.”
In response to Carlson's white supremacist rhetoric, multiple advertisers have already pulled their advertisements from the show.
The following examples are a non-comprehensive collection of the various attacks Carlson has recently made against the Black Lives Matter movement, civil rights advocates, and demonstrators.