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In June 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that President Joe Biden had warned the American public white Republican men are more dangerous than ISIS. Carlson made the claim during the June 1 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. He was criticizing proposals to segregate unvaccinated individuals at certain public events, as well as well-founded claims, promulgated on CNN, that white, Republican men had the highest levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. After playing a series of clips of CNN, Carlson resumed his monologue, as follows: A much shorter clip posted to Twitter showed only this part of the monologue, without the lead-up outlined above: Carlson's claim was false. Earlier that day, Biden spoke at a commemoration of the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which white mobs looted and burned down dozens of blocks in the affluent Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Towards the end of his address, Biden said: Carlson's description of what Biden said was inaccurate and misleading in several ways. Firstly, Biden never mentioned Republicans or the Republican party, nor did he use terms that are synonymous with the Republican party, or even conservatism more broadly. It was Carlson, not Biden, who equated white supremacist terrorism with white Republican men. Secondly, Biden never mentioned men or male or gender in any way. Carlson seemed to see white Republican men somehow encoded in the phrase terrorism from white supremacy. Finally, Biden did not compare the relative levels of aggregate global danger posed by Isis, on the one hand, and American white supremacists, on the other hand. He said, specifically, that white supremacist terrorism poses a more lethal threat to the homeland than either the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda. So even if Biden had used the phrase white Republican men, Carlson's claim would still have been wide of the mark.
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