and my conversation on the enduring legacy of george carlin. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. it s been a full week now. since a mass shooter brutally shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood of buffalo, new york. seven days since we learned that a quote-unquote manifesto linked to the accused gunman embraces the vial great replacement conspiracy theory, which promotes fears that the people of the west, read, white people, are being replaced by so-called white genocide. a week removed from one of the worst racist massacres in modern american history and how is the republican party responded? well, top republicans have doubled down on their support for the horrific conspiracy theory that was used to justify mass murder. let us count some of the ways, shall we? comments resurfaced after the shooting in which conservative congressman matt gaetz expressed his support for replacement theory and gaetz tried to insist he had been speaking i
abrams and hulian castro are in favor of diversity because they re not racist and it is america spoet supposed to be a melting polt and talking about changing american demographics because demographics are change and it is not replacement theerry. astro is saying that the forecast calls for rain and he thinks that is beneficial and carlson is accusing him of affecting the weather. what s frustrating to see some liberal, some centrists buying this carlson bs and playing both sides often replacement. and the political scientist told cnn, the uncomfortable truth is that a less conspiratorial cousin of it, replacement theory, has long been embraced in mainstream public discourse. no. stop. stop. you cannot both sides this. it s not the same thing. to quote the meme of all memes, the og, drill on twitter, the wiseman bowed his head solemnly and spoke. there is actually zero difference between good and bad