[BeingRight] Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson announced that he will once again be hosting podcaster Darryl Cooper on The Tucker Carlson Show, this time for a live primetime interview about the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a reply to Tucker’s announcement post on X, I said the following:
Darryl Cooper is a Nazi, and you’re setting what’s left of your reputation on fire for not only choosing to platform him, but praising him like this.
This admittedly provocative reply has gotten over 46,000 impressions and received over 1,000 likes. In response, I’ve gotten a lot of nasty replies, many of them undeniably antisemitic. (I’m not Jewish, but if you defend Israel or attack Nazism or antisemitism, you’re going to receive antisemitic comments.)
I did have several people ask me, many of them seemingly in good faith, why I called Cooper a Nazi. One person even kindly DM’d me and said something to the effect of "Hey, I followed you recently, and I like most of what you say, but I’m not sure about this one. Can you explain why you called him that?"
First, I don’t call someone a Nazi lightly. Unfortunately, a lot of people completely brush off the term because for the last decade, the American Left has been calling everyone one inch to their right a Nazi. When I use the term, I mean specifically that the person I’m calling a Nazi holds reverence or sympathy for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. I think Cooper meets that criterion. Here are just a few examples that support the claim.
Last year, someone on X asked Cooper the following question:
In your read of history, do you believe a united continental Europe under Nazi/Hitler rule would have been a better outcome than what actually transpired? | I assume far less innocent people would have died, but in your opinion, would that have been the better outcome in totality?
Cooper replied:
I can't imagine anything worse happening than what did happen.
How about Hitler getting away with it and genociding the entire Jewish population of Europe?
In another post, he posted two pictures. On the right was the blasphemous "Last Supper" depiction from the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. On the left was a photo of Hitler and his entourage with the Eiffel Tower behind them after France fell to the Nazis. Along with those two photos, Cooper posted:
This may be putting it too crudely for some, but the picture on the left was infinitely preferable in virtually every way than the one on the right.
In another post on X last summer, Cooper posted a photo of himself driving a tractor while holding a coffee mug with what looks like a Nazi eagle insignia on it with the caption, "Guten morgen, fellas."
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