Tucker Carlson goes on hateful diatribe against a CDC worker because they’re non-binary

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his daily program last night to attacking an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for posting a transgender flag to their Twitter bio.

“[They] tells you that [their] preferred pronouns are they and them,” Carlson said, even though he used “he” pronouns throughout the entire segment, saying that being non-binary is proof that Walker is “not a disinterested scientist” but “a leftwing activist.”

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Just last week, Carlson was using his cable news platform to explain why he’s “nervous” about the COVID-19 vaccine. Its marketing campaign “feels false, because it is. It’s too slick,” Carlson said at the time, echoing anti-vaccine rhetoric that experts fear could hinder the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine.

But this week, Carlson has been complaining that white people will be denied the vaccine, accusing the CDC of “eugenics” because they want to some essential workers to have priority in getting the vaccine. Essential workers have been at higher risk of getting the virus and also tend to be less white than the population as a whole, while the elderly tend to be more white, Carlson pointed out.

On his show yesterday, he all but accused a non-binary worker at the CDC of attempting to murder white elderly people by…

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