Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s recent rant about immigration “appalling” and said that her rhetoric was similar to that “used by white nationalists.”
Pirro pushed the “replacement theory” during a Thursday radio appearance with Fox Nation host Todd Starnes. The theory, which was made popular by a right-wing French philosopher, is predicated on the notion that white birthrates are dropping lower than that of minorities and that white people will become the minority.
“Their plan and their plot to remake America is to bring in the illegals, change the way the voting occurs in this country, give them licenses, they get to vote maybe once, maybe twice, maybe three times,” she claimed.
Pirro added, “You’ve got motor voter registration on the day of the election, we’ve got voter rolls that haven’t been purged of dead people in years, where the Democrats have resisted that.”
Alarming that Jeanine Pirro is repeating the appalling anti-immigrant rhetoric used by white supremacists. Her words echo their hateful “replacement theory” and deserve condemnation from all sides.https://t.co/uHvq8SX8Sl
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) August 30, 2019
Greenblatt tweeted a link to Mediaite’s story about Pirro’s remarks and added, “Alarming that Jeanine Pirro is repeating the appalling anti-immigrant rhetoric used by white supremacists. Her words echo their hateful “replacement theory” and deserve condemnation from all sides.”
