Tucker Carlson & gay rightwinger blame California wildfires on hiring LGBTQ people

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson blamed the California wildfires on the utility company PG&E… for being too focused on hiring a diverse workforce – and his gay conservative guest agreed.

Carlson and his guest Dave Rubin of the conservative Rubin Report were discussing the California wildfires, which investigators believe were sparked when a tree fell on power lines owned by PG&E.

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Instead of asking questions about PG&E’s management of its power lines, Carlson got right to his point: “PG&E strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state. Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”

“The problem right now is that everything, everything, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” Rubin responded.

Rubin tried to make the connection between diverse hires and the wildfires about “freedom.”

“It is not how freedom is supposed to operate,” he said. “Imagine if your house was on fire. Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”

It is ridiculous – neither Rubin nor Carlson had any evidence of a link between diversity in hiring and the wildfires, and neither noted the irony that they were discussing the identities of PG&E’s workers instead of the company’s infrastructure.

If anything, hiring the best people of all races, religions, genders, and sexualities – instead of privileging straight cis white men – would probably help PG&E operate better.

Rubin said that….

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