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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNate Silver: Tucker Carlson is racist but advertisers shouldn't decide who's racist
In a bizarre tweetbait, the white mathematician says that he thinks Tucker Carlson is racist, but advertisers who have dropped him for being racist shouldn't think he's racist.
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whathehell
(28,973 posts)as wnyone else... Norman Ornstein is right.
Dan22X
(2 posts)Advertisers should decide where their money goes.
whathehell
(28,973 posts)marble falls
(56,381 posts)have the right of free speech and I have the right to not listen to it.
Cha
(295,947 posts)in the PR dept of Applebees and anywhere else who can tell a "racist" when they hear one.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)They're just not advertising on it. Which is THEIR RIGHT.
Not to mention boycotts are part and parcel of DEMOCRACIES.
Very fucking disappointing to read.
I hope he retracts this bullshit.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Nate Silver is not making sense with that opinion. Racism is evil and should not be rewarded.
greyl
(22,990 posts)romana
(765 posts)This is a really dumb look on Silver. Why shouldnt advertisers drop someone they think is racist and say so?
Bucky
(53,806 posts)malaise
(267,862 posts)realmirage
(2,117 posts)pamela
(3,469 posts)No self-respecting company wants their commercials to follow a racist tirade. They're not boycotting him, they're pulling their advertisement from a show whose content does not reflect their values.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)So it's a good thing when these people - I'm betting pressure from customers - call out racists.
uponit7771
(90,226 posts)... afford to figure out whether someones a real racist or a fake one ... whether they're a diet racist or a full on ribeye steak with baked potato racist
Quixote1818
(28,905 posts)Sponsoring a racist pig isn't usually great for business.
LiberalFighter
(50,516 posts)And plenty of people are telling him on Twitter.
edhopper
(33,226 posts)not the right to a TV show.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Shaddox
(384 posts)Public consensus moves the needle, both politically and socially. And ultimately THAT needle figures in Court definitions. So, Nate is, at best, misguided.