On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson welcomed someone he’d previously been on the show with — Florida right-wing political operative Jamie Mitchell, founder of the hate group “Gays Against Groomers.”
And during his appearance, Mitchell blamed the victims of the Colorado Springs Massacre for their murders, and incited further violence against all but trans people and their supporters.
Carlson has used his Fox News show since Monday to say hateful things in response to the mass shooting at LGBTQ venue Club Q in Colorado Springs on Saturday night, when a gunman killed 5 people and injured at least 25. Injured another, after which the club goers overpowered him. Police unusually circumspect about suspect, but public documents show they will be charged with hate crimes,
Of course the context of these killings is that right-wing activists have spent the better part of 2 years normalizing anti-trans and anti-gay bigotry to an alarming degree – an effort that has inspired hate laws in Texas and Florida, just For two recent examples. and experts say Such rhetoric had escalated before the Saturday shootings; Saturday It also happens that the night came before Annual Trans Day of Remembrance.
Michael is one of dozens of such people promoting that rhetoric, and her specific niche is that she says she is gay, hence the name of her group.
So she was on Carlson’s show to talk about the shooting, but really to complain that trans teens aren’t able to get proper medical care. And during her appearance, she literally placed the blame for the massacre in Colorado Springs on the victims. Here’s what he said:
“This shouldn’t be said, but these people need to understand what anti-LBGTQ is, and are putting our community in great danger, you know, claiming that we all support this and just Everyone is associating us with this. You know, saying ‘groomer’ is anti-LGBTQ slur. It’s doing irreparable harm to us as a whole, and it’s really putting a huge target on our backs. And unfortunately, the tragedy that happened that night in Colorado Springs, you know it was expected, predictable. We all within Gaze Against Groomers saw this one coming a mile away, and sadly I don’t That this is going to stop until we put an end to this evil agenda.
watch the clip above or here,
“Gays Against Groomers,” it should be noted, has a documented history of targeted harassment campaigns against trans people and trans allies — to the point that in September, Venmo and parent company PayPal banned them For violating rules against “activities that promote hatred, violence or discriminatory intolerance”.
Also Michelle identifies and denies as Jewish Any affiliation with Nazism. But he has a long, documented history of association with white supremacist ideas. he is known to follow There are many openly white supremacists on Twitter promoted work of white supremacist vincent james foxwith him openly called for political violenceamong other things.
Old accounts owned by Michelle on YouTube and flickr It contains explicit Nazi imagery, something Mitchell variously points to, either on an ex-boyfriend or on being hacked, though she never actually identified who her ex was. Reading more about all that here,
Whatever Tucker Carlson’s beliefs, The Tucker Carlson Show has been a haven for white supremacist propaganda, to the extent that The New York Times called it “the most racist show in the history of cable news.”