"It's not how white men fight": Tucker Carlson and the death of Jordan Neely

In the most recent chapter in the "Tucker Carlson -- Fox "News" Choose Your Own Adventure Story", the New York Times is reporting that he was unceremoniously fired by Fox because they feared that Carlson's "extremely" racist text messages would hurt their business: A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race. As I wrote on Thursday, "Beyond sounding like something written in Madison Grant's eugenics tract 'The Passing of the Great Race,' Carlson's claims about white men and violence are objectively racist and white supremacist because he delusionally assumes, contrary to the mountains of historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary, the inherent honor and superiority and nobility of 'white men' as a specific group." The Jan. 6 coup attempt by Donald Trump's followers was an example of how Tucker Carlson's "white men fight" against multiracial democracy, pluralism, the common good, and law and order. White women also participated in and continue to be beneficiaries of America's past and present of widespread and systemic violence by "honorable" white men against non-whites and those deemed to some type of Other. Such a horrific outcome — and the descriptors that are used to justify it — is not new for Black people, where, whatever or despite their behavior, they have been punished with extreme force and lethal violence for the above "crimes" by Tucker Carlson's "honorable" white men.