Tucker Carlson blames “diversity” and “wokeness” for the spread of coronavirus

Carlson: “Identity politics trumped public health and not for the first time. Wokeness is a cult”

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Citation From the February 24, 2020 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST):  For weeks the media told you it was wrong to worry about the coronavirus, a mysterious, highly communicable lethal disease spreading rapidly around the world.

If that concerns you in any way, if you think maybe we ought to take some steps to protect ourselves from it, then you're a bigot.

"Coronavirus panic is racist profiling against Asians" lectured some arrogant moron at Slate.com. A writer for The Seattle Times warned that, quote, "yellow peril racism was the real epidemic fear," and so on.

Countless publications wagged their fingers in the face of readers, and told them it was irrational, probably immoral in fact to worry about the coronavirus than the annual flu.

Identity politics trumped public health and not for the first time. Wokeness is a cult. They would let you die before they admitted that diversity is not our strength.