Tucker Carlson: How Dare Women Complain About Harassment

tucker carlson had one of his typical temper tantrums uh after new york times culture reporter and tech reporter taylor lorenz tweeted about women enduring harassment on international women's day now her tweet said this and it seems pretty uncontroversial if you ask me for international women's day please consider supporting women enduring online harassment it's not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign i've had to endure over the past year has destroyed my life no one should have to go through this now pay close attention to that timeline there because she references something and i wanted to learn more about what she's referencing and i'm going to give you all the details on that in just a moment but before i do here's tucker carlson losing it the most powerful people claiming to be powerless taylor lorenz for example writes for the new york times she's at the very top of journalism's repulsive little food chain lorenz is far younger than prominent new york times reporters used to be she's also much less talented you'd think taylor lorenz would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that she's had but no she's not just this morning she tweeted this quote for international women's day please consider supporting women enduring online harassment it's not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign i've had to endure over the past year has destroyed my life destroyed her life really by most people's standards taylor lorenz would seem to have a pretty good life one of the best lives in the country in fact lots of people are suffering right now but no one's suffering quite as much as taylor lorenz is suffering people have criticized her opinions on the internet and it destroyed her life let's pause on this international women's day and recognize that you thought female uyghurs had it bad you haven't talked to taylor lorenz yep she made all of those claims she yeah she didn't she make she said that she had to say that she's suffering more than anyone else she's none of that she's just making a point about how harassment has impacted her and how hey maybe maybe consider supporting women who have gone through similar things it shouldn't be a difficult controversial thing to digest but of course for people like tucker carlson who was handed his wealth honest you know on a silver platter as like a swanson air you know he has thoughts okay this guy has thoughts on how powerful other people are how talented other people are i mean homeboy can't have a single interview without looking as if he's the most confused person on the planet okay all he does is spread propaganda and ridiculous pro-corporate by the way talking points which is part of the story and i'll get to that in a minute uh but john why don't you go off before i go off more well first of all i'm going to say that i'm going to track down wherever that particular b-roll fires file is being stored and i'm going to delete it and i'm going to track down every copy that's ever been made i'm going to delete it because i don't want to see that anymore but anyway um yeah you rightly pointed out that of course he's what a hundred times wealthier than her 500 times wealthier than her um but she's the luckiest he hasn't been lucky he wasn't just lucky to be born into a family that could provide him with everything he'd ever want she's the lucky one she like i i there's probably very few people watching this that watch tucker carlson because they like him but if there's literally any of you there were the things that he's saying actually reflective of anything she had said from the beginning of did she claim that she has it worse than the weirs did she do that did she say that she has it worse than literally everyone if tucker carlson is one of this hold on sorry you mentioned the uyghurs does anyone actually think that tucker carlson cares about the persecution of muslims in china you guys really think does anyone actually buy that like doesn't anyone get disgusted with the fact that these goons use humans as props for their little political talking points and i'm sorry john i hate being interrupted and i interrupted you so go ahead you're allowed to it's your show um yeah no he might care one percent because the uh persecution is being done by the chinese and he'd like a reason to hate them more but that's probably the the beginning and the end of his caring about it um yeah so did he he said that she is one of the most powerful people in the country that was at the beginning of the segment do you need to watch any more than that is she one of the most powerful people in the world what does that make him in that case she is she she does great work she gets on the front page sometimes she's a style reporter that also by the way and and i'm only saying this because she has in fact said it they keep trying to infantilize her by saying by implying that she's like 15 years old when she's not at all and it's a really weird thing that they do but you should understand that of course in addition to some of the great uh research that you've done that you will describe um you will be shocked to find out that there's quite a bit of just misogyny here that that perhaps is leading to a little bit of this um and so i certainly have more than i want to say but you you did some great work so why don't we get to that yeah so i wanted to instead of just reacting i wanted to actually understand what she was referring to and i want to be clear about something i'm i had seen some of her tweets in the past i i don't follow her work too closely um but i mean she referenced something in her tweet right over the last year and i'm like okay well what happened over the last year and i was asking around about that and no one really had an answer so then i started digging a little deeper to figure out what it is and what she was referring to is uh this this very targeted campaign against her as a result of reporting that she had done and social media posts that she had put out uh in regard to the former ceo of a company known as away right her name is steph corey and uh employees of that company were basically sharing with reporters that they were in an abusive hostile work environment under corey's leadership and so there's actually extensive reporting about this uh corey would demand that everyone work uh you know 12 to 16 hours a day uh if the workers refused to do that uh they would you know be accused of not being committed enough i mean just the typical stuff that you would expect from these type of silicon valley ceos and the employees were sick of it and so they reached out to reporters the verge wrote about this vice wrote about this and taylor lorenz had been tweeting about it and posting about it on social media now uh there's this new app right called clubhouse and it's an invite-only app last year in the summer there had been um a conversation among venture capitalists and she was in the room as uh the conversation was happening and at one point she left when she left they started basically attacking her uh and accusing her of being some sort of warrior on social media but not really having the courage to to stand up to them um during that meeting and the reason why she left is because uh one of the venture capitalists in particular had already been pretty vicious to her on social media and so she just decided to leave the room um but vice had obtained audio of that entire meeting which you can listen to and the the way that these venture capitalists make themselves out to be the victims they were worried about cancel culture right because this is what happened there's this female ceo who's obviously mistreating her workers it gets reported on it spreads on social media and all of these venture capitalists who are invested in companies that might also run into these types of issues are worried so they're worried about cancel culture they're worried about you know maybe not getting the type of return on their investments that they would like uh as a result of ceos being abusive to their workers those stories getting reported it's all out there guys all you need to do is scratch the surface and get off twitter and stop listening to people who want to make everything about how oh this is victim culture and this is cancer cancer culture's real i've been critical of it this is not an example of it let me give you more so um by the way lorenz had claimed that people have attacked or attempted to hack into her accounts to change her passwords sent her vicious disgusting threats trolled her on clubhouse uh by changing their profile pics to those of her public antagonists and set up twitter accounts to impersonate her listen i've i've dealt with all of this and i know what it's like to have a relentless hacker come after you and not give up it's like whack-a-mole i i dealt with it in 2020 i had to change my phone number as a result it's an isolating awful thing to go through you feel violated our entire lives are online i was thinking about pictures of my nieces i'm super protective of them i don't want some terrible person getting a hold of it i don't even i don't take nude pictures don't take nude videos there's nothing in my online life that's incriminating for me but it's it's a it's a feeling of being violated that that's hard to describe to people who haven't experienced it and it's in it you're worried about your you know your bank accounts all of that stuff so i i sympathize with her on that um but again at the heart of this whole taylor lorenz you know hate is the fact that she called out that female ceo so following lorenz's um criticisms silicon silicon valley you know venture capitalists have that meeting on clubhouse and now i go to vice's reporting on it they write that entrepreneurial entrepreneur entrepreneur or businessman uh balaji sir nivasan uh several anderson horowitz venture capitalists and uh television personality roland martin spent at least an hour talking about how journalists have too much power to cancel people and wondering what they the titans of silicon valley could do about it audio of their conversation was leaked to vice and in vice's report the exclusive users of clubhouse on the call seemed to conceive of themselves as humble citizens preyed upon by corrupted elites cravenly lusting after money and power this reached a bizarre um apogee when sir nivasan boasted of standing up for the ceo of a scandal-plagued luggage brand depicting her as all but powerless because of her relatively low twitter follower count and so they they wanted to discuss ways to basically punish journalists who hold these types of ceos uh to account uh nate jones for instance who's one of the uh venture capitalists on that call said this how can they be how can there be accountability function that's impenetrable across all media that allows for that to happen that pushback to happen without it being turned around and can become some toxic thing where all types of power dynamics are being used and people have their weapons out so again like the whole point is oh this type of reporting hurt our friend who was forced to step down as co-ceo of this luggage company what can we do about it and by the way cory initially stepped down following an investigation by the verge in december of 2019 which highlighted employee concerns over cory's management style employees on the customer experience team felt particularly overworked and undervalued and took issue with the way cory spoke to them and you know let me give you one example that was reported by the verge in one colorful anecdote corey told a group of customer experience employees she was going to stop stop approving their paid time off and work from home requests to teach them the skill of accountability everything on their slack channel by the way was public and intentionally so in order to and all of their uh evaluations all of the employees and evaluations were intentionally made public which of course can be uh you know humiliating and awful um and so this is all being reported on and these guys are livid about it and so all of this stuff happening in response to taylor lorenz is is fueled by this hatred toward reporters who hold people in positions of power and privilege accountable and no one's like digging into that at all everyone's just making this about like council culture good or cancel culture bad no guys there are powerful people behind this and don't let them fool you don't let them manipulate you that's exactly what's happening right now but no that couldn't be it because tucker's a populist and he wants to reign in the elites especially the tech elites and all of that so it couldn't be that no wait is it really that is he in fact co-opting the language of populism and holding the elites accountable to pretend that he in fact while trying to theoretically if it's not just misogyny then it's what you're saying um attacking her and claiming that he is the one that is holding the powerful accountable because presumably taylor lorenz is more powerful than vcs and ceos of major corporations and all of that and certainly more powerful than tucker carlson who against all rationality has the largest audience of like any show on tv the entire thing is just disgusting and by the way while we're rightfully focusing on him he is not the only person that has like lost their mind about her and is just tweeting non-stop i'm gonna keep it real michael tracy tons of tweets about her glenn greenwald tons of tweets about her and it's not the first time like every couple weeks or every month or so they circle back to we gotta post a whole bunch of tweets about her and then we gotta put out something on sub stack it's totally not about making money though we just believe in holding people accountable now subscribe to my sub stack and see me talk about how this woman is unacceptable for some reason that i won't actually define which is the final point i want to make you explained why some people might have a problem with her did tucker ever explain what the issue with her is because the only thing he cited really fast the only thing he cited was her tweet saying hey i'd prefer not to be harassed if that was it he might think well i think she's exaggerating because he doesn't care about the harassment that women suffer which is why he pitched it is just her being criticized rather than death threats and all that but how would that be the justification for an entire segment on his show that she tweeted in a way that made her the victim that he doesn't believe she is that definitely wouldn't justify a whole segment on his show so what does i don't know he didn't list anything about her that was worthy of criticism all of them are just saying we should be able to criticize her we won't say for what because we don't want to get into the actual substance of it we just think that you should be able to criticize her and we definitely want to make our like 99 male audience incredibly comfortable with the idea of having a two or 20 or three day hate against this woman look the right wing is turning this story into what they do best a culture war story this is not a culture war story on the surface it might appear to be a culture war story but beneath the surface if you just dig a little bit it's a story about power and privilege wanting to crush a journalist who dared to draw attention to their awful practices toward workers and i'm going to leave you with two quotes because it's important and it comes from a former worker from away that was the company that that co-ceo had to step down from because she was so vicious to her employees we don't have a lot of money or the name recognition that the founders and the venture capitalists do says a former away employee they added that no ceo male or female should be able to treat workers poorly a reference to the argument that male leaders aren't held to the same standards the ceo the worker continues to say got to where they were playing the game and now they're getting called out for mistreatment so yes for years men have been doing the same things but what what makes it okay for men to do this that was the girl boss promise that women would do it better but they didn't and the biggest piece of irony here is that steph cory the ceo uh who had to step down from away complained that she was being unfairly targeted by journalists because she's a female ceo anyway uh we are going to take a break uh just be be skeptical of narratives that come across on twitter uh again just do a little more digging and inform yourselves because you don't want to be manipulated by the very people that we're trying to fight back against thanks for watching the young troops really appreciate it another way to show support is through youtube memberships you'll get to interact with us more there's live chat emojis badges 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Published: Wed Mar 10 2021