Tucker Carlson says Starbucks' anti-bias training is a racist attack on white people

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https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/01/tucker-carlson-says-starbucks-anti-bias-training-racist-attack-white-people/220358

Media Matters

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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): What our kids are being taught, and what Starbucks is teaching us, is that certain groups are more prone to racism than others, and that's a lie, as you know, because all people are fundamentally the same, in that they're capable of great good and great bad, and racism is one of the great bads, but they're all capable of that.

There's -- no group has a monopoly on racism in this or any other country, and to suggest otherwise is itself racist, right?



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[ProudLib72]

1. For the tone deaf in the audience...

This deserves a painful

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2. This is why we should not use the broad brush slur wypipo. It just plays

into the republican conspiracy that white people are victims and locks it in. Of course fox news will quote the DU and others who use it.

[EffieBlack]

11. Yes. Because all of this is because of the word "Wypipo."

[applegrove]

15. I did not say that.

[applegrove]

16. Watch Bill Mahers new rules from tonight. He goes into how republicans

use conspiracy theories to control low information voters.

[ck4829]

20. If they want to fabricate conspiracy theories, that is what they are going to do

Remember how they took mundane emails and it became pizzagate?

[gollygee]

27. I would never tone police people of color to satisfy republican conspiracy theory nuts

I don't understand why anyone would put them before people of color. Why worry about their comfort? Why not worry about the comfort of a group of people who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats?

[Hoyt]

3. Those Wypipo racists on FOX are full of it.

Just noticed, not meant for poster above.

[applegrove]

5. No offense taken.

[muntrv]

4. Quick! Tucker needs the waaahhhmbulance!

[NastyRiffraff]

32. Tucker needs an audience!

and he'll do or say anything to get it. He knows the Fox audience very well.

[RandomAccess]

6. Racism is taught

I do not believe racism is an inherent human flaw

[Hortensis]

31. Dispositions to protective fears of various strengths

can be inborn and biases and hostilities, all also influenced by environment, are.

Carlson's such a creep. It's as if his moral compass has a reverse polarity.

[BannonsLiver]

7. Tucker is the wypipo poster boy

It’s difficult to conceive of a better example. Almost as if he was designed and manufactured expressly for that purpose.

[Voltaire2]

8. If there is one thing that really pisses racists

off it is integrated bathrooms.

Yeah tucker you got no idea who’s ass has been on that seat.

On a more serious note, it is corporations like Starbucks that are the thin line keeping our republic from falling into overt fascism. That is not a good situation.

[marble falls]

9. Tucker Carlson is wypipo. I feel for his struggle against the racism Tucker runs into daily.

[struggle4progress]

10. "I feel so oppressed by people who oppose racism! It's a slippery slope! What's next?

Will we have to oppose school shootings too? Or colluding with foreign governments to swing our elections?"

[TCJ70]

12. Well he's an idiot. Anti-bias training is not a bad thing for anyone. n/t

[uponit7771]

13. Carlson is the second most openly racist TV personality outside of Benedict Donald. He doesn't try..

... to hide how much he devalues PoC

[EffieBlack]

14. This sounds eerily familiar

[Skidmore]

26. +1

[spanone]

17. what a dumbfuck

[vercetti2021]

18. Cry more

Tucker bitch boy

[Hekate]

19. Oh widdle Pucker, did someone offend you by not being just like you?

[Garrett78]

21. George Orwell left off "Anti-racism is racism."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." And anti-racism is racism.

There.

[Iggo]

22. "...certain groups are more prone to racism than others..."

Yes. It stands to reason that groups that benefit from a racist system would tend to be more prone to racism.

Or did he mean "bigotry"? People get that one wrong all the time.

[anneboleyn]

23. Tucker has gone full white supremacist and he is dangerous.

I think he is much more dangerous than say Hannity.

He argues the white people are victims every night practically, and he covers constantly “illegals” who commit crimes or don’t respect “Americans” He unsympathetically covers African-Americans (he has discussed Joy Reid too many times to justify his coverage as “news” and his level of condescension is astonishing). He has also had on figures associated with/beloved by the alt right. He also claims the Russia investigation is a persecution of Trump, no collusion, etc.

Frankly I find it amazing that he has barely been criticized for his crap — it is worse than Hannity because Tucker pretends that he has “analyzed” these things.

[OldHippieChick]

24. Anyone wondering about the character of this character needs merely replay his appearance

on "Dancing w/ the Stars" many years ago where he "danced" sitting down. The epitome of a lily white snowflake. As if he has anything to say that matters.

[Skidmore]

25. Ah, the angst

is part of a campaign. I see.

[Beartracks]

28. Loosen your bow tie, Tucker. n/t

[cyclonefence]

29. Of course black people--any color of people--can be racist

but if their racism doesn't mean anything except that they're jerks, it doesn't matter. Why can't these guys understand that they (white men) are not victims here? When has Tucker Carlson's life been impinged upon by some black person's racism toward white people?

Either he's really stupid, or he loves being the victim so much that he's willing to overlook the obvious--or, probably, both.

[3catwoman3]

30. Oh, go choke on your...

...bow tie, you jerk.

What a whiner.

[Vinca]

33. I don't know how you can train a biased person to be an unbiased person, but it's definitely not

an attack on white people. Starbucks gets credit for trying.

[Hekate]

34. Here's how: you change the corporate culture and create a clear set of expectations...

...written up in the Employee Manual, which you give give to every employee now, and then to every new hire.

You create a competent EEO/AA department and have them create an employee training program going forth, starting with face to face groups and continuing with online training.

Once a year everybody in a supervisory position has to retake the onlne training course, pass it, and sign a statement that they understand it. Or you can just extend that to every employee from the ground up, because this business depends utterly on public good will.

We know how to do this. I'm not talking about reinventing the wheel here -- my template is County employment in California. It's not that hard; it just takes determination from the top and a recognition that this is important.

Starbucks has always been known as a good employer: they pay a decent wage and have good benefits. Thus, unlike Walmart, they are a good neighbor-- their employees are not routinely on food stamps or other state and county services.

As a consequence, I believe Starbucks means to make this work, and will make it work.

[Blue_true]

35. Carlson is an example of what is wrong in this country.

Starbucks is trying to insure that every person that come into one of it's stores is respected, Carlson is trying to use the effort to racially divide.

[Volaris]

36. Oh whatever. Anything that doesn't glorify Tuckers sense of his own self-importance

Is going to be viewed by him as an attack. Since he happens to be white, then there you go.

He's Alex P. Keaton, only not as smart and with worse taste in fashon.

Fuck him.