Opinion | Tucker Carlson exposed the darkest truth about the MAGA right
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There is no denying that white supremacy is an engine of the right.

There is no denying that white supremacy is an engine of the right.

There are some Republican voters who are sympathetic to their party’s ultranationalist turnand don’t believe the party’s attitudes toward issues such as immigration and crime are the products of racial animus. But over and over again, right-wing leaders and thinkers reveal that white supremacism is an engine of this movement.

The latest example comes via an episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” released this week, in which the former Fox News host interviews podcast host and newsletter writer Darryl Cooper. Carlson, arguably the most influential right-wing nationalist commentator in America, said Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” But Cooper has made clear that his intellectual project regarding World War II includes Holocaust revisionism.

  • running_ragged@lemmy.world
    122·
    2 months ago

    Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation For specified groups like the Jews, genocide was the Nazis’ primary goal. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Holocaust was “the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators”.[1]

    Including 7.8 million soviet civilians and POWs in the count kind of seems like a revisionist definition of what the holocaust was to include anyone killed in the war. To undermine how much focus was on the jews pre-war.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, the Soviet citizens were targeted because of their ethnicity. Slavics were considered sub human like Jews.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      117·
      2 months ago

      Then you’d have to also look at deaths before the war for every group…

      Like, you get that right?

      Do you just not know most of the death wasn’t till Nazis understood they were likely going to lose the war?

      That’s not a rhetorical question. To understand how to best explain this it helps if I know this is something you’ve thought about more than clicking on the Wikipedia link from a social media comment 2 minutes ago.

      Where do I need to start explaining stuff here?