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Fox News has fired Tucker Carlson, putting an end to the right-wing commentator’s nearly seven-year-long reign over cable news. His dismissal comes a week after the network settled a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, and amid a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Tucker Carlson Tonight staffer, but the network formally cited neither of these incidents in its announcement of Carlson’s exit. Instead, Fox News Media released a terse statement on Monday, announcing that the two had “agreed to part ways,” and that Carlson’s final episode had aired the previous Friday, April 21. 

Carlson’s tenure in the coveted timeslot, which broke rating records, was largely characterized by the spread of racist and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories, as media watchdogs observed. Carlson’s transphobic rhetoric, in particular, increased in intensity over the past few years as anti-trans legislation began to sweep the nation at a breakneck pace. Some experts consider Carlson to have played an essential role in mainstreaming previously fringe ideas about queer and trans people, including the notion that the LGBTQ+ community is a cult that “grooms” children, and that gender-affirming care amounts to “mutilation.” 

In light of Carlson’s unceremonious exit, we’re looking back at some of the most notable anti-LGBTQ+ moments from the cable pundit, ranging from the laughably bizarre to the bone-chillingly violent. Regardless of how ridiculous they are, all of these tirades contributed to a nationwide climate of hostility against queer and trans people. 

When he got mad about M&Ms going “woke” 

 

 

M&M is Retiring Its Iconic Spokescandies Because Conservatives Can’t Get a Grip

The candy brand says that Maya Rudolph will instead be the spokesperson.

To kick things off with a lighter example, Carlson spent nearly a whole year railing against M&M’s spokes candies rebrand. It all started with the brown and green M&Ms last January, who swapped their stilettos and go-go boots for kitten heels and sneakers, respectively. He complained that the candy company was on a mission to make the mascots “less sexy” and “deeply unappealing,” gifting us with the declaration that “miserable, nonbinary candy is all we deserve.” It all reached a head about a year later when M&M’s announced that it would be taking an indefinite pause on the spokes candies — which turned out to be a Super Bowl stunt, as they triumphantly returned two weeks later. 

 

 

Biden Invited a Drag Artist to the White House. Now They're Getting Death Threats

Marti Gould Cummings responds to the right-wing media attack against them. 

After drag artist and longtime activist Marti Gould Cummings was invited to the White House for the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act in December 2022, right-wing media, including Carlson, seized upon a decontextualized old tweet Cummings had made to imply that they are a child predator. When Carlson featured her extensively in a segment, Cummings received hundreds of death threats via social media.

Tucker has also called out medical facilities that provide gender-affirming care to youth, such as Boston Children’s Hospital; subsequently, those institutions received increased bomb threats and other threats of violence. Although Carlson may never have called explicitly for violence, experts say that publicly naming and shaming individuals and institutions is part of a tactic called “stochastic terrorism,” whereby prominent figures create an environment of hate in which violence becomes more likely.  

Victim Blaming in the Wake of the Club Q Shooting

 

This Right-Wing Activist Somehow Blamed Trans Health Care for the Club Q Shooting

It's yet another horrifying example of anti-trans commentary found on Tucker Carlson's show.

The day after the tragic shooting at Colorado Springs’ Club Q, Tucker Carlson claimed that LGBTQ+ activists were using it as an excuse to “censor"

 

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“When you point out the truth, indisputably, and the truth is that some adults in this country, apparently a growing number, have a deeply unhealthy fixation on the sexuality of children — when you say that out loud, you get people killed,” Carlson said sarcastically. 

The following day, Carlson hosted Gays Against Groomer's founder Jaimee Mitchell, who called the horrific act of violence “expected and predictable.” 

“And sadly, I don’t think it’s going to stop until we end this evil agenda that is attacking children,” Mitchell said. Naturally, Carlson agreed wholeheartedly. 

When Libs of TikTok called the LGBTQ+ community a “cult” on his show

After months of amplifying Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account that specializes in putting individual LGBTQ+ people on blast to an audience of 2 million followers, Carlson hosted the account’s owner, Chaya Raichik, on his show in December 2022. Raichik claimed that the LGBTQ+ community had become a “cult” that pulls people in “unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” 

“They brainwash people to join and they convince them of all these things, and it’s really hard to get out of it,” Raichik said, adding that the community is “extremely poisonous,” “evil,” and “out to groom kids.”  

When he implied that the Nashville shooting happened because of transness

Police work near the scene of a mass shooting at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Republican Politicians Are Pouncing on the Nashville Shooting to Spew Anti-Trans Rhetoric

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and others are capitalizing on the shooting to spread disinformation and hatred.

In the wake of the Nashville shooting, Carlson and other right-wing pundits immediately started promoting the theory that the shooter was trans based on social media profiles, even though that was not confirmed. “All the conversation on television has been about the guns that were used, and there may be a reason for that — they don't want to talk about who did it and why,” Carlson said in a segment the day after the shooting. 

That evening, Carlson went on a rant about trans people supposedly “targeting Christians,” and claimed that the trans “movement” was “getting militant and possibly dangerous.” He even went so far as to claim that identifying as trans “conveys status in this country,” pitting trans people against “working-class whites,” despite the fact that many trans people are themselves working-class. “Yesterday's massacre did not happen because of lax gun laws,” Carlson said. “Yesterday's massacre happened because of a deranged and demonic ideology that is infecting this country.”

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