Tucker Carlson's latest COVID conspiracy theory is that white people are being discriminated against.
The Fox News host featured footage from InfoWars in an attempt to back up the false claim.
Carlson aired a shorter version of the clip, omitting context on monoclonal antibody eligibility.
Parroting months-old material from the conspiracy website InfoWars, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been pushing a demonstrably false claim that white people are being denied COVID-19 treatments because of their race.
While Carlson has already equated children wearing masks to child abuse and aired a conspiracy theory-ridden interview with anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his January 10 segment reached a new level of misleading material and outright falsehood.
"The United States has mistreated racial minorities in centuries past, they say, therefore whites must suffer now," Carlson said. "So your ancestors did bad things, or people who looked like your ancestors did bad things, so now, we are withholding medicine from you.
"They call this equity," he continued. "It's not equity. It is collective punishment. It's the North Korean standard. It's the definition of evil."
Airing a shorter version of a clip that was first shared by InfoWars host Harrison Hill Smith and later posted to the conspiracy site's page, Carlson omitted the latter portion of the video where Smith is told he can't receive monoclonal antibody treatment because of his lack of underlying health conditions....
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