After months of media coverage condemning rhetoric linking the coronavirus to China, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the press is silent on the recent Justice Department report confirming Yale University discriminated against Asian American and white applicants for years.
Carlson called Ivy League discrimination an open secret that everybody knows but one that nobody wants to talk about. There’s hypocrisy involved about not discussing the accessibility children with influential families have to prestigious schools, he added.
“What would be funny would be to see what would happen if Ivy League schools stopped admitting the low-IQ children of famous liberals,” Carlson said on his show Friday. “People like CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who went to Yale because his dad was the governor of New York. Would the New York Times support that? Shutting down the pipeline for the kids of Democratic politicians to Brown, Yale, Princeton, Harvard? No, that would hit them where they live, but discriminating against some Korean kids so we can feel virtuous, oh yeah, we’re for that.”
The host also called out a number of journalists who dismissed the discrimination claims brought by the DOJ, including a tweet by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who created the 1619 Project.
Hannah-Jones condemned the DOJ for not looking into segregated and unequal schools attended by black children. Carlson showed a tweet sent by Hannah-Jones in which she believed it’s not discrimination if Yale is taking into consideration systemic inequality. The tweet was no longer found on Hannah-Jones’s account.
“Right, it’s not discrimination to discriminate as long as I’m the beneficiary of the discrimination,” Carlson said. “OK, so that’s how it works. But isn’t that how the Jim Crow south worked? Yeah. But, the Left doesn’t care about details.”
Carlson also pointed to a number of incidents where media pundits pushed back on calling COVID-19 the “China virus” or “Wuhan virus” because it could be harmful to Asian Americans. He played back clips of TV hosts at one time using the same language before they started condemning it.
“Once that became a public relations problem for the Chinese government, you were racist for saying it,” he said. “So, what can we conclude? Actual racism means nothing to these people, what matters to them is if they can use racial division to advance a partisan political agenda.”
