“The white race is the cancer of human history,” wrote feminist Susan Sontag. That was back in 1967, and Sontag herself died nigh on 20 years ago. Yet her sentiment not only lives on, but, in fact, now has its own dedicated TV station: MSNBC.
So said Fox News host Tucker Carlson last night while reporting on standard MSNBC rhetoric that, admitted the commentator, he didn’t even know about until email respondents alerted him to it. And, boy, what rhetoric it is.
Carlson opened his segment drawing an analogy to a dark event of decades past, saying:
In July of 1993, a radio station in Kigali, Rwanda, began openly attacking one of the country’s main ethnic groups, the Tutsis. The radio station was called RTLM, but many remember it as simply Hutu Radio because its audience was primarily Hutu. According to Hutu [Radio], Tutsi people were responsible for virtually every bad thing that ever happened in Rwanda. Tutsis had way too much money. They had way too much power. Tutsis were way too privileged. They were greedy. They were bigoted. They were racists. They were dangerous. Everything about Tutsiness was repulsive.
Carlson stated that most Tutsis didn’t pay RTLM much mind; it wasn’t directed at them. This is much as how most conservative and moderate citizens pay little attention to MSNBC; it has a targeted audience. Yet nine months after RTLM hit the airwaves, a genocide began in which more than half a million Tutsis were murdered in short order, often hacked to death with machetes.
While the world is supposed to learn “lessons” from such horrible events, the truth is that racial hatred is back in style, with a vengeance — and MSNBC gives it a home. We’re “not referring to the subtle coded variety” of racism, either, said Carlson. Rather, these are the “kind of people [who] just come out and announce, ‘I hate this race of people, and here’s why I do,’” he continued.
After mentioning MSNBC’s longtime racial agitator Joy Reid, Carlson pointed out that the station now has a new bigot in its lineup: Tiffany Cross, host of The Cross Connection. Carlson then played just a small sampling of her show’s anti-white rhetoric. Number one:
TIFFANY CROSS: Many of us have seen the dangers when powerful white people decide they want something, they annex it and they’ve never had a problem replacing the people who stand in their way.
MICHAEL HARRIOT, THEROOT.COM: We see American white people are going crazy. They’re going, they’re resorting to violence.
ELIE MYSTAL: This is literally what conservative white folks do when they don’t get their way, they turn violent.
CROSS: White people deputizing themselves [in] some position of authority to have jurisdiction over their life when they need to mind their blanking business.
Note: In reality, white Americans commit relatively little violence. For example, approximately 50 percent of the murder in the United States is committed by a subset of 13 percent of the population: young black men. Most of this is black-on-black, too; in fact, about 92 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks. Most of the rest are likely murdered by Hispanics.
This demographic reality is reflected in state crime statistics. That is to say, states such as New Hampshire (88 percent white) have homicide rates much like those in western Europe, whose low murder incidence is touted by gun-control advocates.
Here’s the second MSNBC exchange Carlson played:
JEMELE HILL: I don’t think it’s our responsibility to be tasked with destroying and dismantling the racial oppression that’s against us. That’s just saying we’re more at fault than the white people who constructed this system and the white people who continue to practice institutional racism.
ELIE MYSTAL: A majority of white people do not support policies that will unpack and unroll and reform this system of justice. This is what they want. Matt Gaetz is giving the white folks what they want.
TIFFANY CROSS: White replacement can strangle culture. So yes, we should all be concerned about white replacement. It is, after all, a very threat to our survival here.
“Is there anything worse than white people?” Carlson then asked, illustrating absurdity by being absurd. “They’re violent. They’re heartless. They’re cruel. They’re deranged. They’re secretive. They’re dishonest.”
In yet a different clip, Cross complained of how “white women” “have been radicalized and are enablers” to “domestic terrorism” such as January 6. There was no mention of how 2020’s 600-plus Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots killed dozens and caused billions in property damage.
Cross also claimed that white people who “neither discovered nor built this land have been led to believe that America is theirs and theirs alone,” and that “when you build a nation on stolen land with stolen labor, it was never going to be a republic we could keep, and so here we are celebrating the birth of a nation, independence for white men” (must-watch video below).
This inter-group agitation is a recurring historical theme, tragically. Professor Thomas Sowell once mentioned the example of mid-20th-century Sri Lanka, which “had a level of mutual respect and even friendship between its majority and minority communities that was rightly held up to the world as a model.”
That is, until demagogues started stoking bigotry’s fires and sparked inter-group violence.
Unfortunately, this is an inevitable result of balkanization under representative government. When the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation — and multiculturalist forces discourage the latter — and a country begins comprising disparate groups, it’s only a matter of time before demagogues commence playing race/ethnicity cards to win power.
Yet this inter-group violence doesn’t last forever. The kind of tyrannical regime the world’s Crosses would visit upon us wouldn’t tolerate such unrest, because destabilization is only beneficial when you aim to seize power from others. Once you have it, you make sure people “get along” and don’t rock the boat — whether they like it or not.
