The Fox News host may have hit a new low in suggesting that Democrats don’t care about drug deaths when they’re mostly happening to white people. \n
on Tuesday claimed that the Biden administration “hates” the type of Americans who die from opioid overdoses.
Carlson was discussing on his Fox News show a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant program that aims to reduce substance abuse in underserved communities. One of the several harm reduction activities the program outlines is safe smoking kits, which led Carlson to assert that “Joe Biden is giving out free crack pipes to Black people” and then that the president doesn’t care about opioid use.
“Joe Biden understands how essential narcotics are to the future of his party,” Carlson claimed as a picture of Biden appeared on screen with the caption, ‘Let them have crack pipes.’” Carlson then suggested that the president was turning a blind eye to the opioid crisis, since its victims are mostly white.finding that drug overdose deaths in the U.S. topped 100,000 from April 2020 to April 2021. Carlson mistakenly claimed that these were all opioid-related; in fact about 75,000 of them were.
“Those 100,000 Americans weren’t from officially marginalized groups,” the Fox News host continued, though in fact many of them were from marginalized groups. “Their deaths had nothing to do with the equity agenda. In fact, their deaths may have helped the equity agenda by changing the demographics of the country in a way that benefits the Democratic Party. So as far as the Biden Administration is concerned, it’s not a bad trend.
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