For those of you who don't know, Carlson is a right wing troll who has been accused of being a white supremacist.
For those of you who don't know, Keen is a right wing troll who has been accused of being a racist transphobe.
Carlson also pushes the "great replacement" theory
You missed out the "has been accused of" there.
Some of us can spot the pattern that Carlson is being attacked because he gives people like KJK that are outside the mainstream airtime. Same sort of thing as Joe Rogan gets.
They end up massively misrepresented, because they are threats to the US "liberal" bubble, and people inside the US liberal bubble buy it.
I'm a long-time Glenn Greenwald fan, ever since his earliest days of blogging about the Iraq War, and he also now relies on Carlson to get mainstream airtime. I mainly hear about Carlson via him. Some relevant things, by and via him:
twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1526994299740733443
"Surprise! Tucker Carlson Draws the Most Democratic Viewers in Key Demo, Even Topping Rachel Maddow"
[MSNBC will need another explanation for his leading popularity beyond: "old white Republican men are racists"]
The Demented - and Selective - Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings
That Carlson was primarily responsible for the ten dead people in Buffalo was asserted despite the fact that there was no indication that Gendron even knew who Carlson was, that he had ever watched his show, that he was influenced by him in any way, or that he admired or even liked the Fox host. [...]
The attempt to blame Carlson for the Buffalo shootings depended entirely on one claim: Carlson has previously talked about and defended the view that immigration is a scheme to “replace” Americans, and this same view was central to Gendron's ideology. Again, even if this were true, it would amount to nothing more than a claim than the shooter shared key views with Carlson and other conservative pundits — exactly as Hodgkinson shared core views with Maddow and Sanders, or the numerous murderers who killed in the name of black nationalism shared the same views on the police and American history as any number of MSNBC hosts and Democratic Party politicians, or as Pim Fortuyn's killer shared core views with animal rights activists and defenders of Muslim equality (including me). But nobody is willing to apply such a framework consistently because it converts everyone with strong political views into murderers, or at least being guilty of inciting murder. [...]
To claim that Carlson ever said anything remotely like this or believes it is just an outright lie. Indeed, with great frequency, Carlson says that the priority of the U.S. Government should be protection of and concern for American citizens of all races. Tarrant and Gendron believe and explicitly say that any non-white citizen of a European country is automatically an “invader” who must be killed and/or deported to turn the country all-white. Carlson believes the exact opposite: that the proper citizenry of the United States is multi-racial and that Black Americans and Latin Americans and Asian-Americans are every bit as much U.S. citizens, with all of the same claims to rights and protections, as every other American citizen. His anti-immigration and "replacement” argument is aimed at the idea — one that had been long mainstream on the left until about a decade ago — that large, uncontrolled immigration harms American citizens who are already here. There is no racial hierarchy in Carlson's view of American citizenship and to claim that there is is nothing short of a defamatory lie.
And this thread:
twitter.com/ShantMM/status/1526265515840155649
The current liberal disinfo campaign is to make you think that talking about immigration and its demographic impact on the electorate — something liberals have enthusiastically done for decades — is now an off-limits conspiracy theory & anyone who engages in it should be censored
They are trying to make you think that doing this is engaging in something called "The Great Replacement Theory" so that they can tar their political opponents as extremists who spread racist conspiracy theories and disinformation.
As usual, the point of this is to spread their own disinformation in order to censor media and speech they don't like. [...]
Now, personally, I don't know that much about Carlson - only ever really having seen his interviews with people like KJK and Greenwald, and Kara Dansky. But nothing gives me any reason to trust the US left's characterisation of him any more than their characterisations of Rogan, or KJK, or anyone else. They're completely full of shit on all the people and things I know about, so I am assuming they're full of shit on Carlson too. (And, to a large extent, I'm trusting Greenwald here, as he's been consistently of good judgment for 20-odd years).