Daily News | Jordan Neely, Tucker Carlson, and ‘rooting for the mob’ as America unravels
“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: This isn’t good for me.”
The text made news for its obvious racism, but there’s even more going on here. Whatever qualms Carlson expressed at the end, the reality is that he thrived in 2020s America as the TV voice for millions because he made “rooting for the mob” socially acceptable, telling his viewers that it’s OK if you “wanted them to hurt the kid.” That poison is permeating our society, even in a blue-city subway car where probably few had ever watched Fox News.
Meanwhile, for folks still clinging to a conscience, it’s hard to say what is more stunning: the mob mentality that strangled Neely to death, or the cops and the mayor and the governor andWe can’t bring Jordan Neely back, but we don’t have to live like this. The delayed justice of treating a homicide as a crime when the victim was a Black, homeless man would be a start.
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