4. I think Carlson's comments are best seen not as a biographical fact about Carlson (who really is too much a worm to care about) but rather a political fact about the American right. Carlson's celebration of Harvey Milk's assassin is not an outlier.
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5. I suspect that you think that the assassination of Moscone and Milk was a horrible crime. But it's important to understand that many on the right don't feel that way. Milk as first openly gay California lawmaker represented a threat to right.
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6. After the assassination, there were cops in San Fransisco that wore "Free Dan White" t-shirts. This was written in police locker room in large letters: FREE AN INNOCENT MAN WHO WAS FOR THE PEOPLE. FREE DAN WHITE.
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7. The fact that Dan White got a ridiculously light sentence (voluntary manslaughter rather than murder) for shooting 2 people dead was symptomatic of the homophobia that had an implicit sympathy for the killer.
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8. As a child of a very right wing family (his imbecilic younger brother is even named Buckley Carlson), Tucker Carlson surely read American Spectator & National Review in 1980s, which were filled with derision for Harvey Milk. Here's one example from American Spectator in 1983.pic.twitter.com/EnRNPTleZG
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9. More on the need to understand Tucker Carlson's homophobia not as a personal flaw but as a political phenomenon here (along with other, happier, posts): https://jeetheer.substack.com/publish/post/35509017 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
His father was a notorious anti-trans crusader which was well documented in “lady and the dale”
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Replying to @jaydestro @HeerJeet
He outed Renee Richards. That was huge at the time. Before that while running for political office he had a guy telling anti gay jokes. Richard Carlson had a quite a history.. blue checks aren’t researching it. There’s a long legacy, and explains how Tucker got to where he is.
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Replying to @ropebelt @jaydestro
I'm researching it! But would welcome any additional leads!
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Replying to @HeerJeet @jaydestro
You’re a nice guy.. I’m honestly afraid if I give you the tidbits I have and anything is written about him, Trump and and Tuckers worst followers will come after you. Part of it has been written about before.. in 2000. A generation ago and no one (few) remember
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