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Learning that theres racism within Fox News is like Captain Renault In Casablanca discovering theres gambling at Ricks. Im shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!

Newly revealed racist text from Tucker Carlson to a Fox News producer reportedly alarmed the Fox board when they first heard of it. Really? Alarmed? Shocked that theres gambling here? Please. What they were probably alarmed about was that it was discovered and would be entered into evidence by Dominion Voting Systems. The text contributed to two things: The $787.5 million settlement with Dominion and Tuckers firing.

In the text, Tucker talks about witnessing a group of white men beat up an Antifa kid,

Tucker wrote, A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. Its not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping theyd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isnt good for me. Im becoming something I dont want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as Im sure Id hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldnt gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I dont care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?

Tucker, youre worse than that kid. Tucker always reduced and demeaned people he considered his political enemies.

Tucker also built a career pushing white nationalism. How many times did he promote the great replacement theory on his primetime show? This is a theory that whites are being systematically replaced with darker-skinned people. White nationalists love this theory as does Fox News as it fits their agenda of promoting hate and fear.

Fox News being shocked that theres racism in their establishment is a bunch of crock. They would have to be better actors than Claude Rains to pull that one off. Tuckers text doesnt just show that hes racist, but that a Fox News producer is too.

Theres been too many times that Ive sat at a bar and a white guy next to me, who I dont know, starts talking to me and drops N-bombs and other racist slurs. Ive also heard white strangers near me, who are not speaking to me, but are sharing their racism loudly and with confidence. Of course, the racism bothers me, but what also disturbs me is that theyre not shy in sharing their racismand with me, who they dont know. It bothers me that a racist will assume I share his viewpoints. Basically, hes judging me by the color of my skin. Its not my fault Im a 97 percent UK mutt.

But in Tuckers case, he knows this producer. He knows he can send the guy a racist text. He felt safe sending it. He also felt safe creating a hateful and misogynistic environment in his studio. Hell, Tucker felt safe pushing racism on his show. Shocked theres racism at Fox News? Here are your winnings, sir.

I once had a friend text me a very unfunny joke about auctioning President Obama. I ignored it. A few days later he texted again, Did you place a bid? And thats when I told him I wasnt cool with that shit. In his case, he knew I wasnt cool with it and was trying to get under my skin. We dont talk anymore because I have nothing for him. But I bet Tuckers producer didnt reply to his text, Please stop sending me this racist shit. Im not on board. Id like to see the reply and who it came from.

And speaking of gambling, Id bet a lot of money that theres more than one person at Fox News to who Tucker felt safe sending racist texts.

As for the writers strike, Im with the writers. I too am afraid of what the future brings, especially regarding artificial intelligence. Basically, every cartoonist is afraid of AI replacing us, and then a few weeks ago, someone shared a bunch of AI-created images of Republicans as drag queens and basically every editorial cartoonist (except for me) shared them.

You dont fight AI by sharing it on social media. I feel the same way about memes, which some are trying to replace editorial cartoons with. I dont share memes.

We should always support good writing. Even though it appears there are too many lazy remakes and shitty TV shows and movies, theres always good writing out there. For every ten Two Broke Girls, theres at least one Community, or The IT Crowd, or The Good Place. You just gotta search for it.

Writers, I stand with you. I feel your pain as someone whos in an industry where I cant organize to unionize or even produce a decent ethics guideline.

Creative note: I watched the first two seasons of Ted Lasso but none of season three. But I am planning on subscribing to Apple TV when season three is over, bingeing it, then canceling the service. Its what I did for the first two seasons. And speaking of writing, I watched Cocaine Bear last night.

Music note: I started to listen to Adam Ant and then turned it off when I tried to think of more stuff to add to this cartoon.

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