Carlson inverted genocide terminology to smear mainstream criticism of racism.

Evidence

Or consider Tucker Carlson taking a break from riling up white nationalism to claim that his competitors on MSNBC, by saying the words “white people,” were practicing “open race hate” and had become the equivalent of Hutu radio broadcasters in Rwanda who stoked the fires of anti-Tutsi hatred before the 1994 genocide. “This is Hutu radio,” he stressed, while claiming that a segment on racism in pro football was “genocidal talk,” adding, “Not an overstatement. That’s exactly what it is.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 473

Categorization

• SHARE: The specific Hutu-radio commentating example is a concrete artifact of pipikism-in-action that a media-criticism-minded friend would appreciate.
• XREF: connects to: The term mainstream has been weaponized as an insult denoting disreputable journalism. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 256