Fox News host Tucker Carlson and cultural critic James Panero attacked the metric system as a relic of the French Revolution and a bad way of measuring things in the real world.
and urging America to stick to its customary system of measurement, which resembles the old British Imperial system.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC.His guest said America should stand strong against pressures to switch to the metric system, bringing it in line with much of the rest of the world, because customary measures such as feet, inches, miles, and pounds helped foster the Industrial Revolution and put men on the moon.
The critic conceded that counting by 10 is useful for"abstract calculations," but said it is bad for"measuring things in the real world," and that customary measures could be traced back thousands of years.