Why does Fox News (and the Republican majority) believe that successful people of color - got into college and have degrees because they are POC?

[legalboxers]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-racist-justin-pearson_n_64376ba4e4b05765f3806154#
Tucker Carlson Might Have Just Delivered His Most Racist Fox News Rant Yet

Tucker Carlson went on an overtly racist tirade against a Tennessee state lawmaker on Wednesday night, suggesting Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson speaks like a “sharecropper” and got into college only because he’s Black.

Pearson is one of two Black lawmakers recently expelled from the state legislature by the GOP supermajority for joining protesters who chanted in the House chamber in support of gun control following a school shooting that left six people dead in Nashville last month. Pearson was reinstated Wednesday by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in Memphis, and state Rep. Justin Jones was reinstated Monday by Nashville’s Metro Council.

[Valkyria]

Statistics in work fields and education show a massive increase in hiring people just because of physical characteristics, and would even reject applications if they were not "inclusive" enough, e. g. being a white male. As if you couldn't tell by the poor quality of the workplace when everyone hired was intentionally hired for biased reasons. Even though a male may be more qualified with lots of experience, certain companies obviously can hire who they want to, so they use that to their advantage to nitpick by the most shallow decisions. Mind you, there's nothing wrong if a hair salon is looking for majorly females... and there's nothing wrong if a construction site is looking for majorly males who have the strength to get the job done, unless that woman proves she's strong and will get the job done, but certain companies where none of this matter is intentionally making it LITERALLY discriminatory. It ain't racist if you have no black people on your team if, 1. none applied, or 2. other races were better for the job. That they can even write a CV is admitting our country isn't as racist as people, usually ironically white people, scream about. It IS racist if you reject someone's application simply because of a birth characteristic they cannot change. If a company wants to hire maids, then they are allowed to deny men if women are their target advertisement. If they only want to hire blonde people because that's their theme, then sure. But when these characteristics become literally irrelevant, the company is intentionally being discriminatory. In the UK this past year, A grades were handed out like candy. My sister even admitted she did terribly at some exams and was handed an A grade, same went for some of her classmates who did not even complete half of the paper. A grades were >50%. You can say you admit you knew F all about the questions but as long as you've got those brownie birth points, you're in. University applications were majorly accepted if they declared they were women, or another special category, even if their grades were a lot lower than that of the non-cushioned. Many teenagers from upper/upper-middle class who were white, straight or male who studied their heart out and got A-predicted grades across the board, did not achieve well. Those who were born into the "oppressed perpetual victim" category, which ironically is racist and sexist by babying people, may have had predicted grades of D and fails... but passed, and many still got As. This has been proven from the week those results were out.

[supercutebutt]

Mr. Carlson pleasures himself to photos of Vlad Putin. He is dealing with mental illness.

[mommymommymommy]

He's basically saying "it's ok to be a poc because it's also ok to be white". That's what he's TRYING to say, but racists will read it as something else

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

The Fox News and Republican Majority are both behind this bullshit, and it's not right.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)

[TheeTrybrid]

My guess is that they refuse to believe a poc would want an education after being taught for so long that poc can't read that well or write.

[hammeronfire]

Because the racists and white supremacists can’t ever accept the fact that people of other races can earn something and be better at things than they are

[Valkyria]

Now change the race from "white" to something else and look at how terrible you look.

[hammeronfire]

That is a complete non sequitur because if you loom at the history of this country, you’ll see that the political right has always done everything it can to keep poc down.

[hammeronfire]

Besides, I never said it was all white people, just the white supremacists and racists. Reading comprehension is important, maybe you should learn it