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Tucker Laments ‘What Happened’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa<!-- wp:html --><p>Fox News</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-cheers-on-brazilian-insurrection-and-repeats-rigged-election-lies">Tucker Carlson</a> on Tuesday groaned about “what’s happened” in South Africa over the last 29 years—an apparent reference to the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela to the country’s presidency in 1994.</p> <p>Carlson began his show Tuesday by criticizing recent U.S. legislation <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/61/text">introduced by</a> Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) designed to counter “white supremacy”—by having certain types of hate speech be subject to criminal charges. Carlson cited the fact that the bill addresses only hate speech targeting non-whites to make the claim that it is a “direct attack on the Bill of Rights.”</p> <p>“We shouldn’t be surprised by this, however, because it’s consistent with what [President] Biden has promised…since the day he got into office,” the Fox host griped, before turning his eye to how this law would erode the rule of law across Western nations.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-laments-what-happened-in-post-apartheid-south-africa?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Tucker Carlson on Tuesday groaned about “what’s happened” in South Africa over the last 29 years—an apparent reference to the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela to the country’s presidency in 1994.

Carlson began his show Tuesday by criticizing recent U.S. legislation introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) designed to counter “white supremacy”—by having certain types of hate speech be subject to criminal charges. Carlson cited the fact that the bill addresses only hate speech targeting non-whites to make the claim that it is a “direct attack on the Bill of Rights.”

“We shouldn’t be surprised by this, however, because it’s consistent with what [President] Biden has promised…since the day he got into office,” the Fox host griped, before turning his eye to how this law would erode the rule of law across Western nations.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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