“Justin Pearson was not white. That’s probably how I got into Bowdoin in the first place,” he said, referring to the private liberal arts college in Maine. “But he made a fantastic impression… This was the old Justin Pearson, before his ‘transition’.”
It’s not unusual for Carlson to make racist comments and accept talking points about white supremacists on his show, one of the most-watched cable news programs in the country. He has repeatedly promoted the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory that white American Christians are being intentionally replaced by immigrants, people of color, and non-Christians. Once, in a 2008 radio broadcast, he called the Iraqi people “semi-literate primitive monkeys.”
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