I don’t lionize Tucker Carlson to the degree that Miele does in this article. Everyone in the press is all about managing their brand. But I do like the way this column describes one of the ways in which the press’s monopoly on The Narrative is overcome.
I have become a Tucker Carlson fan recently. He is circumspect, pragmatic, intuitive and rational. And he does not generate heat as I and others unfortunately always do because of obvious passion and emotion. I respect and admire his ability to express what we all feel in a way that even opponents take seriously.
Best thought from the article –
“Systemic racism” is a meaningless phrase that blames everyone for the despicable actions of a few. “White privilege” is a rhetorical cudgel to justify redistribution of wealth and violence against white people. “The long overdue reckoning about race” has been ongoing since before the country itself started, and it will never end, nor should it. Facts are facts. Slavery was evil. Jim Crow was evil. Racism is evil. But teaching white people to hate themselves does not resolve that evil; it just compounds it.