# Tucker Carlson deserves to be afraid **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235 "2018-11-09T10:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/201 "2018-11-17T21:17:17Z")
ETA: Those with military experience such as **iiandyiii** and **monty** can explain how far Tucker Carlson’s head penetrates his posterior on the subject of military readiness. I say the US and Japanese made the correct decision during WWII to involve the whole population in the effort, including women, in contrast with the Nazis. But what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/202 "2018-11-19T10:36:55Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > ETA: Those with military experience such as **iiandyiii** and **monty** can explain how far Tucker Carlson’s head penetrates his posterior on the subject of military readiness. I say the US and Japanese made the correct decision during WWII to involve the whole population in the effort, including women, in contrast with the Nazis. But what do I know? You don’t have to go that far back. One could point out that during the Bush administration when the military were still booting out all gay people, they ended up expelling the majority of their Arabic translators in training despite this being a skillset they were desperately in need of in Iraq. Not being able to communicate with the locals is a recipe for disaster in a military conflict, particularly if you’re trying a “hearts and minds” approach, but the conservative view was that it was better to purge the homosexuals from the fold even though it increased the risk of US soldiers dying. Diversity of talents and backgrounds does not prevent people from working together for a common purpose with common values. As for the title of this thread: the thing to remember is that Tucker Carlson _is already afraid_. People like him and Ingraham and O’Reilly are deep-down terrified of people who are different from them and will do everything in their petty power to lash out at those who frighten them. That doesn’t mean protesters should accost his family or vandalize his home - those things are still bad and uncalled-for. But Carlson remains a chickenshit whiner willing to sell out every principle America stands for to avoid having to face the reality of what a goddamn coward he is. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/203 "2018-11-19T11:33:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You don’t have to go that far back. One could point out that during the Bush administration when the military were still booting out all gay people, they ended up expelling the majority of their Arabic translators in training despite this being a skillset they were desperately in need of in Iraq. Not being able to communicate with the locals is a recipe for disaster in a military conflict, particularly if you’re trying a “hearts and minds” approach, but the conservative view was that it was better to purge the homosexuals from the fold even though it increased the risk of US soldiers dying. Diversity of talents and backgrounds does not prevent people from working together for a common purpose with common values. Hijack - I’ve always wondered about that - why were most of the Arabic translators gay? I mean, I’m a translator myself, and best as I can tell we’re not \*that \*much gayer than the general population. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/204 "2018-11-19T12:19:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hijack - > > I’ve always wondered about that - why were most of the Arabic translators gay? I mean, I’m a translator myself, and best as I can tell we’re not \*that \*much gayer than the general population. [It’s a good question](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08benjamin.html) and I don’t have an answer to it. I don’t even necessarily think it applied to all the Arabic translators they had; it seemed to affect the younger, newer ones disproportionately. But it is clear that their loss had an adverse affect on the war effort. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/205 "2018-11-20T04:11:47Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > After the police report was revealed to directly refute Carlson’s account, this appears to be turning into a generic Pit thread for Carlson. > > Which is fine by me – he’s a white nationalist[u/], if not a full blown white supremacist. Fuck any and everyone who gives rhetorical aid and comfort to white supremacists. > > Some of his greatest (bigoted) hits: > > [Tucker Carlson Goes Full White Nationalist](https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasian-kanye-tucker-carlson-has-gone-full-white-1829492567) > > [Tucker Carlson Explains Why White People Aren’t ‘Designed’ to Live Around Immigrants](https://www.theroot.com/tucker-carlson-explains-why-white-people-arent-designed-1823973839) > > [Tucker Carlson Proves He's Not a White Nationalist by Doubling Down on How Terrible Diversity Is | GQ](https://www.gq.com/story/tucker-carlson-white-nationalist-diversity-terrible) > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/12/sorry-tucker-carlson-but-there-are-plenty-of-reasons-why-diversity-really-is-americas-strength/?utm\_term=.be58122349d2](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/12/sorry-tucker-carlson-but-there-are-plenty-of-reasons-why-diversity-really-is-americas-strength/?utm_term=.be58122349d2) > > [https://splinternews.com/tucker-carlsons-racist-dog-whistle-of-the-night-is-whit-1829454231](https://splinternews.com/tucker-carlsons-racist-dog-whistle-of-the-night-is-whit-1829454231) > > He apparently can’t even conceive of people from different backgrounds (race, religion, national origin, etc.) working together successfully. > > Fuck him. This. Tucker Carlson can go fuck himself. He lied (again), like always. I wish the cops had locked his sorry ass up for making a false complaint. They should. Fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/206 "2018-11-20T04:16:18Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#): > > Oh PLEASE. > > The right portrays the left any way they want to regardless of how the left actually behaves. They lie ALL THE TIME about what the left does. So playing by the rules is meaningless. It doesn’t matter if we do things that “play into the rights hands”. > > Female mobs! Antifa attacks! The new Black Panthers! Invasion! MS-13! > > I don’t think the left should be playing by the rules until the right stops lying and cheating their way through everything. and … this. No matter what is done or not done, they will lie anyway. And incite violence. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/207 "2018-11-20T06:39:00Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > and … this. No matter what is done or not done, they will lie anyway. And incite violence. Yeah in the unhinged view of the loony left the mere existence of someone to the right of Mao is inciting violence. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/208 "2018-11-20T17:56:52Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Yeah in the unhinged view of the loony left the mere existence of someone to the right of Mao is inciting violence. D+ Please try harder. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/209 "2018-11-20T17:58:29Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Yeah in the unhinged view of the loony left the mere existence of someone to the right of Mao is inciting violence. Is that like the unhinged view of the always afraid right that poor people are coming to destroy America? ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/210 "2018-11-20T18:31:54Z")
> [@andros](#): > > D+ > > Please try harder. Alternatively: please don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/211 "2018-11-20T22:24:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hijack - > > I’ve always wondered about that - why were most of the Arabic translators gay? I mean, I’m a translator myself, and best as I can tell we’re not \*that \*much gayer than the general population. Possible theory based on no actual knowledge of the field or the issue: Arabic countries are, in general, less tolerant of homosexuality than the USA. Young homosexuals in Arabic countries with English as a second language flee persecution to the USA, and become translators in disproportionate numbers compared with any other profession. Thus, (relatively) lots of gay Arabic translators in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/212 "2018-11-20T23:55:19Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Possible theory based on no actual knowledge of the field or the issue: Arabic countries are, in general, less tolerant of homosexuality than the USA. Young homosexuals in Arabic countries with English as a second language flee persecution to the USA, and become translators in disproportionate numbers compared with any other profession. Thus, (relatively) lots of gay Arabic translators in the USA. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/213 "2018-11-21T01:22:41Z")
> [@andros](#): > > D+ > > Please try harder. Harder? He’s not even trying. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/214 "2018-11-21T01:28:05Z")
Oh he’s trying alright. Very trying. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235/215 "2018-11-21T15:29:53Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Yeah in the unhinged view of the loony left the mere existence of someone to the right of Mao is inciting violence. Octo, the right frequently label the left as “communists.” So now you’re saying anybody to the right of a communist, which includes the American left. If you’re going to troll, at least get your political affiliations correctly ordered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-deserves-to-be-afraid/824235.md?page=10)