Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed masks as a sign of submission, and called for an end the spectacle of wearing them outdoors by telling his vast audience on Monday it’s time to shame people who parade around in them in public spaces.
Carlson began his monologue by calling out Democratic elected officials across the country for having abused what little power they truly had throughout the coronavirus pandemic. But his true ire was saved for those willing Americans who gladly surrendered their liberties and have covered not only their own faces, but the faces of their children with masks.
After airing a clip of a family being thrown off of a recent Spirit Airlines flight over a child not wearing a mask, Carlson unleashed.
“Masks have always been incompatible with the free society. We used to know that. Masks strip people of their identity as individuals. Masks transform people from citizens into drones. They isolate us, they alienate us. They shut us off from one another,” he said. “Masks prevent intimacy and human contact. If I can’t see your face, I can’t know you. Masks are for the guilty. They are signifiers of shame and submission.”
