Chuck Schumer Sends Letter To Rupert Murdoch Calling For End To Amplification Of “Great Replacement Theory”

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts.The letter came following the deadly shooting rampage in Buffalo, NY, over the weekend, in which 10 people were killed.

The alleged shooter had, according to a manifesto posted online, been an adherent of the “replacement theory,” or the belief that elites are trying to replace native born Americans with non-white immigrants for political gain.“For years , these types of beliefs have existed at the fringes of American life,” Schumer wrote in the letter. “However, this pernicious theory , which has no basis in fact, has been injected into the mainstream thanks in large part to a dangerous level of amplification by your network and its anchors.”Schumer did not mention Tucker Carlson in the text of the letter, but cc’d him.

On Monday, Schumer directly called out Carlson in a speech on the Senate floor, citing a New York Times series that found that the Fox host “spewed rhetoric that echoes replacement theory at least 400 times on his show since 2016.”In his letter — which the Times published here — Schumer quoted a Monday editorial from The Wall Street Journal, owned by Murdoch’s News Corp., which said that politicians and media had an obligation to “condemn…such conspiratorial notions as replacement theory.”Schumer, though, wrote that “words of condemnation are hardly enough.”“To this end, I implore you to immediately cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far -right conspiracy theories on your network,” he wrote.Schumer wrote on Twitter that Carlson invited him on his show on Tuesday night,