If you listen to certain people, America doesn’t have a problem with racism. It doesn’t have a problem with sexism, or have a culture of sexual assault or rape. It doesn’t have a problem with bias and violence against immigrants, or on the basis of religion. These people argue that anyone who says that America is plagued with these problems is probably lying to you, that these problems are being grossly exaggerated to support a radical anti-white agenda. Proponents of these arguments are playing a game to be granted sympathy and gain leverage. They’re trying to tilt the playing field in their own favor.
This kind of view just happens to be fairly common among actual admitted and practicing white supremacists, even though many don’t think of themselves as “racist” and would deny it if you were to ask them. However they have many hard-core racist beliefs, commonly make racist statements, and implement and support racist policies where they can. These would be people like Donald Sterling, Paula Deen, Cliven Bundy, and Phil Robertson, along with their various fans.
According to a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, several of the leaders who hold these particular views, including close friends of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, happen to find strong support for their perspective on the air nightly at Fox News. And they feel the strongest public booster, the one who has been mainstreaming these racist perspectives, headlines the program hosted each night by Tucker Carlson.
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