Tucker Carlson compares criticism of the unvaccinated to lynchings
Carlson: “You know, lynchings have happened throughout history, not just simply in this country, but in all countries because there's something in people that wants to turn on the unpopular kid and beat him to death”
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From the August 19, 2021, edition of Fox News' Fox News Primetime
WILL CAIN (HOST). You know, media, politicians, elites, corporations, they're corrupt -- perhaps, irredeemably corrupt. And we can see that now. And it's manifesting in these COVID policies. It's not science, it's scientism. But I'm a little taken aback, Tucker, by my fellow Americans. Americans who not just are compliant, but so many that become the enforcers of this anti-science sort of authoritarian nature over each other. And I just wonder like, what is it about our fellow Americans that have embraced this idea of "let me force my other ideas on you?"
TUCKER CARLSON (GUEST): Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, the entire country's being manipulated by highly clever, ruthless people who are harnessing the worst qualities in human nature -- you know, lynchings have happened throughout history, not just simply in this country, but in all countries because there's something in people that wants to turn on the unpopular kid and beat him to death. That's like who we are. That's the ugliest part of who we are.
And if you have ruthless leaders who are willing to exploit that for their own gain -- and we do -- then they wind up turning the population against itself -- and vaccinated, unvaccinated, white, Black, these divisions which we didn't recognize a year ago are now defining our lives and we're being used. I mean, that's the truth. If you want to subdue people, divide them. And that's exactly what they're doing. And I -- you know, people shouldn't participate in it. But, again, they're harnessing human nature against us.