-With prominent figures on the right
embracing and parroting
the dangerous white nationalist conspiracy theory known
as the Great Replacement, it's worth noting that,
in addition to being deeply racist,
bigoted, and dehumanizing, it's also incredibly stupid.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
♪♪ [ Cheering and applause ]
You might remember that, throughout his presidency,
Donald Trump tried to fan the flames
of a racist conspiracy theory
by claiming that Democrats were somehow organizing
caravans of migrants to cross the Southern border
for their own political benefit, and even handing out cash
to incentivize people to come to the U.S.
-This is an invasion!
I was badly criticized for using the word invasion.
It's an invasion.
People hate the word invasion, but that's what it is.
It's an invasion of drugs and criminals and people.
Mexico should step up and stop this onslaught,
this invasion into our country.
The Democrats want to invite
caravan after caravan
[ Booing ] of illegal aliens
into our country.
A large group of people.
They call it a caravan.
[ Booing ]
You know how the caravan started?
Does everybody know what this means?
I think the Democrats had something to do with it.
-What is he doing? Is that like a game
of racist charades?
[ Laughter ]
Is he dealing invisible cards?
Which is something I bet he tried at his casinos
before they went bankrupt. [ As Trump ] And that's
[ Laughter ] a 6 for you, a 6 for you, and would you look at that?
It's another blackjack for the dealer.
[ Laughter ]
To no one's surprise, the racist caravan hysteria
had a habit of conveniently popping up
during election cycles
and then quietly receding when the elections were over
because it was obviously just a cynical tool
to scare people and stir up Trump's base.
And, as The New York Times reported in 2018,
it clearly had an effect on Trump's voters.
As The Times put it...
Including a 75-year-old Republican in Northern Minnesota
who said she was afraid that migrant gangs
could take over people's summer lake houses in the state.
[ Laughter ]
[ Laughter ] Now, obviously, that's insane.
If we've learned anything from movies,
it's that, if you have a lake house,
you don't have to be worried about immigrants.
You have to be worried
about Jason.
[ Laughter ] You guys,
the more you focus on immigrants,
the easier it gets for Jason.
[ Laughter ] You're pointing your binoculars
toward the Southern border. Meanwhile, Jason's
just licking his lips, strolling into your tool shed,
waiting for night to fall.
[ Laughter ] Picking out one of your tools.
[ Laughter ]
Now, it should be easy for a healthy political party
in a healthy political system
to condemn white nationalism,
as well as the dangerous and deeply racist
replacement theory that comes with it
and, yet, of course, there are prominent figures
on the right who insist, while spreading it themselves,
that it doesn't even exist.
-Where, exactly, is all this criminal white supremacy,
this right-wing domestic terrorism that poses,
"the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland"?
Where is it? Well, of course, it doesn't exist.
If you were to assemble a list,
a hierarchy of concerns,
the problems, this country faces,
where would white supremacy be on the list?
Right up there with Russia, probably.
It's actually not a real problem in America.
The combined membership of every white supremacist organization
in this country would be able to fit
inside a college football stadium.
"White supremacy, that's the problem."
This is a hoax.
-First of all, you don't have to be
a card-carrying member
of a white supremacist organization
to be a white supremacist.
It's not Costco.
[ Laughter ] You can be a white supremacist
without being an official member,
the same way you can watch movies
without having a Blockbuster card.
Although, personally, I'd give anything
for Blockbuster to come back.
No more sitting in front of the Netflix home screen,
scrolling for something to watch.
Back home, when we had Blockbuster,
I just waited for Mom to get back from work
and say, "I got 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'"
[ Laughter ] And then you'd say,
"I don't think I'm going to like it, Mom."
And then your dad would say,
"Well, then you can go stare at the wall!"
[ Laughter ] So you'd watch it.
And you know what? I did like it.
I liked it a lot. [ Laughter ]
Thanks, Blockbuster.
Anyway, can we go back to this part?
-The combined membership of every
white supremacist organization in this country
would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.
-First of all, a college football stadium
could fit like 100,000 people, which is a ton of people.
[ Laughter ] If I told you, "Don't worry,
I rounded up all the white supremacists,"
and walked you into here,
I don't think your reaction would be, "Phew!"
[ Laughter ]
Have you ever watched a college football game,
or do you just stand outside the glass at the country club,
watching your rich pals play squash
with that look on your face, like you just got to Earth
and you're trying to understand human behavior?
[ Laughter ] Second, why don't you just do some journalism and find out?
It's easy to just ask open-ended questions
without answering them. Anyone can do that.
This dude's like a search engine
that just answers your questions with a series of more questions.
He's...
[ Laughter ]
[ As Carlson ] I have a question for you.
How big is the cup
and why are the cups all different sizes?
Why is the government trying to control you
by telling you how many ounces
[ Laughter ] you're allowed to have in one cup?
And, if you're only allowed to have eight ounces in a cup,
then where are all the other ounces going?
[ Laughter ] Are they being stolen by a secret cabal
of woke elites who are hoarding all the ounces for themselves
[ Laughter ] while threatening to cancel you
for daring to question their authority?
When you ask the barista at Starbucks
to pour 1,000 ounces of coffee into your cup,
[ Laughter ] will they say that's not possible?
When you climb over the counter and claim it
your constitutional right
to take as many biscotti as you want,
[ Laughter ] will they have you arrested by the thought police
and put you in a muzzle, like Hannibal Lecter,
to shut you up because you're being "annoying as [bleep]"?
[ Laughter ] Will that happen to you,
just like it happened to me yesterday?!
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheering and applause ] But, of course, he wants to pretend --
he wants to pretend it's not a problem
because he's also openly and repeatedly
promoted replacement theory on his show.
-An unrelenting stream of immigration, but why?
Well, Joe Biden just said it --
to change the racial mix of the country.
That's the reason. To reduce the political power
of people whose ancestors lived here,
and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans
newly arrived from the Third World.
In political terms, this policy is called the Great Replacement,
the replacement of legacy Americans
with more obedient people from faraway countries.
Now, I know that the left
and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter
become literally hysterical, if you use the term replacement,
if you suggest that the Democratic Party
is trying to replace the current electorate,
the voters now casting ballots, with new people,
more obedient voters, from the Third World.
But they become hysterical because that's --
that's what's happening, actually.
-Mm. -Let's just say it -- that's true.
In other words, you're being replaced
and there's nothing you can do about it, so shut up!
[ Laughs ]
-[ Laughter ]
-Truly a haunting laugh.
[ Laughter ] I love the audacity
of calling people on the left literally hysterical
and then ending one of your rants
with an insane terror giggle.
[ Laughter ]
[ As Carlson ] [ High-pitched laugh ]
[ Laughter and applause ]
Second, and more important, the so-called replacement theory
is obviously racist, dangerous, and dehumanizing,
but on top of everything else, it's also incredibly stupid.
I mean, just think about it for like half a second.
No one's being replaced.
There's no capacity limit here.
It's not like there's a bouncer
who only lets two in when two leave, and yet,
that same bouncer somehow keeps letting in girls and cool dudes,
even though you and your friend Todd have been
at the front of the line for like half an hour.
[ Laughter ] So, finally, you say,
"Hey, man, you either let us in, or we're going to FGT!"
And he says, "What does FGT mean?"
And you say, "Go home and watch 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'"
[ Laughter ] Then he says, "Oh, man.
Now, I'm never letting you in.
Again, though, just think
about how breathtakingly dumb the logic here is.
No one gets replaced
when another person enters the country.
The government doesn't come knocking on your door and say,
"Hey, someone just crossed the border,
so now you have to move to a different country.
We're super sorry. Pack your [bleep] up.
You're moving to Sweden.
Here's a troll and a pair of clogs."
[ Laughter ] Second,
just think about how dumb and dehumanizing it is
to call migrants who are fleeing poverty and violence
and coming here to seek a better life obedient.
They're doing one of the most difficult things
a human being can do -- uprooting themselves
and their families, leaving their homes,
and making a dangerous trek to a foreign country,
and they're doing it at great personal cost,
in the hopes of seeking a better life.
For this theory to make any sense at all,
you'd have to believe that all those people
are just sitting at home waiting for a call
from the Democratic National Committee,
telling them it's time to join the caravan
and make the trek toward America.
"Alright, everybody, pack up your stuff.
I just got the call from Joe Biden.
We're replacing the Hendersons and good news --
[ Laughter ] we're getting their Blockbuster membership.
[ Laughter ]
Prominent figures on the right have been parroting
this depraved and deeply racist ideology for years, now,
and, on top of being bigoted, dehumanizing, and dangerous,
it's also just breathtakingly dumb.
It's so dumb, even they can't actually explain the logic.
They just toss out racist bull[bleep] and say...
-Does everybody know what this means?
-This has been "A Closer Look."
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