Seth Meyers credits Tucker Carlson for inspiring buffalo hunts

Seth Meyers opened his first show since a white, racist gunman killed 10 people at a convenience store in Buffalo, New York by solemnly lamenting the “absolute nightmare” of a “story we’ve seen dozens and dozens of times now.” .

Shortly after those opening comments — and a darkly funny, outrageous musical performance by late night Writer Amber Ruffin—Meyers reached out to one of the main characters who helped spread the terrorist’s hateful ideology: Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“As prominent figures on the right embrace and parrot the dangerous white nationalist conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement, it is worth noting that it is not only deeply racist, bigoted and dehumanizing, but also incredibly stupid,” Meyers said at the beginning of his latest A Closer Look segment.

His two main examples were Donald Trump, who spent his campaigns and presidency stoking fears of an immigrant “invasion,” and Carlson, who earlier this year denied the existence of “right-wing domestic terrorism.”

At one point, Carlson tried to allay concerns by stating that “the combined membership of every white racist organization in this country would be able to fit in a college football stadium.”

“First of all, a college football stadium can hold about 100,000 people, which is a lot of people!” Meyers shot back, putting a photo of a crowd on the screen. “If I told you, ‘Don’t worry, I rounded up all the white supremacists,’ and led you here, I guess your reaction wouldn’t be, ‘Whew!'”

Carlson “just wants to pretend white supremacy isn’t an issue,” Meyers argued, “because he also openly and repeatedly advocates replacement theory on his show.”

After playing a montage of Carlson driving the rhetoric that ended up in the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto, Meyers concluded that these ideas were not only “blatantly racist, dangerous, and dehumanizing,” but also “incredibly stupid.” .

“No one will be replaced. There is no capacity limit here. It’s not like there’s a bouncer who only lets two in when two leave,” he said, later adding, “Just think how breathtakingly stupid the logic is here. No one is replaced when another person enters the country.”

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