“It’s about time we call people scumbags again,” – Kurt Vonnegut
On Monday, Tucker Carlson’s X/Twitter show hosted Darryl Cooper, an “American right-wing social media influencer, writer, and podcaster who focuses on 20th-century Western history.” In his interview, Cooper told Carlson that Winston Churchill was the “biggest villain” in World War II, the man “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did,” (i.e. an episode of genocide). He also likened the Holocaust to a bureaucratic snafu. The anus-faced Carlson squinted at Cooper in approval. When the interview posted, Elon Musk gave it a thumbs up and retweeted it, rescinding his approval when the heat came in.
While the mainstream media is correctly reporting that Cooper’s comments sound like “Holocaust denialism,” the press has been reluctant to identify him as a “Holocaust denier.” Similarly, they soft-peddle Cooper’s politics as “right-wing,” a term that has been dulled by constant usage. A few outlets suggested that Cooper is a “Nazi apologist,” but no one in the mainstream is naming the duck: Darryl Cooper is a Nazi.
None of this is new or unknown. Back in July, after the Paris Olympic opening ceremonies, Cooper was incised over the controversial Dionysian scene, twisted by the right as an attack on Christianity. So he got on the X/Twitter and posted two pictures, one of Hitler and his gang in front of the Eiffel Tower and the other of the Dionysian Olympic actors. And he wrote, “This may be putting it too crudely for some, but the picture on the left was infinitely preferable in virtually every way than the one on the right” – the picture on the left being, you guessed it, the Nazis. And, last year, The Atlantic mentioned Cooper in a report on Substack’s “nazi problem.”
As far as Cooper’s “focus on 20th-century history,” well, it’s pretty much pseudo-intellectual complaints about too many Black and Brown people “invading” “our countries” and destroying “Western Civilization.” Cooper’s “focus” is propaganda for the Great Replacement Theory, a White Supremacist idea that, well, what I just wrote above.
Read a biography of Hitler, Himmler, or any other member of the Nazi hardcore, and the Great Replacement Theory (GRT) is right there. Though GRT is not named, the ideas are the same bullshit that has been repeated by the bigots and propagandists decades before Adolf hit the scene. The Nazis and earlier hate-mongers proposed that the great Brown horde, joined and controlled by the Jews, are conquering the White European Homeland with their numbers, numbers that will increase with much breeding. The Great Replacement Theory.
The GRTers answer to “replacement” is to chant “Jews will not replace us” and act on “Fourteen Words” that guide them, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The Words were first uttered by a 1980s American Nazi terrorist group called The Order, but the Words’ White supremacist idea was there way before The Order’s short existence and has far outlasted that doomed crew. Though the Pronatalist don’t say it, their concern over “humanity’s low birthrate” (read White people’s low birthrate as compared to those of non-White people in Africa, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia) echoes the Fourteen Words, if it isn’t inspired by them.
While Darryl Cooper tries to deny what he said (and has said), while Tucker Carlson tries to hand-wave the controversy away, and while Elon Musk tries to back away from his endorsement of and support for Cooper, Carlson, and the Nazi right, the record is clear: Cooper is a Nazi, not a fellow traveler, not a denier, not an apologist. He is a Nazi. He doesn’t need a membership card or a swastika tattoo to prove it. It is in his words and his associations.
Tucker Carlson is a Nazi. He is also a propagandist. He is not “just asking questions.” He is not engaging in journalism. He is pushing Nazi propaganda and has been doing so for years. If not for screwing himself by working for Trump against Dominium Voting Systems, he’d still be on Fox pushing the Great Replacement Theory and urging White men to breed to save Western Civilizaion, but only after their balls cool down.
Carlson is not an innocent who is constantly duped by sinister far-right forces and unfairly demonized by the Soros-payrolled left. He is a veteran propagandist, who has a long history of Nazi engagement and public support for far-right dictators and their henches. He is a Nazi. He doesn’t need a membership card or a swastika tattoo to prove it. It is in his words and his associations.
Elon Musk is a Nazi. He is also the Nazi-right’s chief disseminator. Musk claims that he bought Twitter out of concern for “free speech.” In his hands, he says that X/Twitter is helping to make the world a better place by providing the ultimate forum for exchanging ideas. What ideas? Cat videos, men getting hit in the balls, celebrity feuds, sports clips, old ladies dancing, right-wing trolling, Nazi propaganda. Musk routinely prevents “free speech” from happening by banning people from his feed and siccing his followers on people he disagrees with. For Musk it’s “free speech for me but not for thee.”
Musk uses “free speech” as the reason he promotes posts and content by Nazis, women-haters, and other scum, most of them promoting some aspect of the Great Replacement Theory, pronatalism (Musk is one of its main public proponents), and the Fourteen Words. Oh, Musk’s involvement with the scumbags goes much, much deeper. He funds this crap, not just by platforming Nazis and their pals on his money-losing forum. Last year, Musk and Carlson signed a revenue sharing deal. Carlson provides content; Musk’s company promotes Carlson’s content.
Musk has downplayed his relationship with Carlson, suggesting that their relationship is a coincidence that doesn’t amount to much. Not true. According to Washington Post and others, when Musk hired Linda Yaccarino as X/Twitter CEO, he made signing Carlson one of her top priorities. The Carlson/Musk deal is expected to bring both parties tens of millions of dollars. Musk not only provides a platform for Nazi propaganda; he invests in it. He is a Nazi. He doesn’t need a membership card or a swastika tattoo to prove it. It is in his words and his associations.
As Vonnegut wrote (in late 1980s), we must call scumbags scumbags. We must call Nazis Nazis. Forget their protestations, their hand-waving, their dodges and denials. Don’t be fearful of their trolling and blowback. Listen to their words, look at how they spend their money, see who they support and associate with, look at their actions. And please feel free to draw some conclusions from what you observe and speak up. Listen to ACT-UP: Silence = Death.
This weekend, Tucker Carlson will be supporting JD Vance at a Trump/Vance rally. We know about Carlson’s Nazi “associations.” Vance? First, he’s happy to get Carlson’s props, even after Carlson’s most recent piece of Nazi propaganda and the outrage it caused. Most politicians would distance themselves from Carlson – even while courting them behind the scenes – but not Vance. He’s standing by his man. Vance is also a proud pronatalist and routinely pushes stuff straight from the Great Replacement Theory. Does JD Vance have a Nazi Party membership card or a swastika tattoo? Doubtful. Does he talk like a Nazi, walk like a Nazi, quack like a Nazi? I think you know the answer to those questions. Quack quack, Herr Vance, quack quack.