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“But you have to ask yourself...What is this? This symbol of hate, posing as a cookie jar, doing in Don Lemon’s kitchen?” Carlson said. “Do you see that? That right there, ladies and gentlemen, is a white supremacist QAnon cookie jar.”

Before you ask—no, nobody knows where TF Carlson is getting this QAnon connection from as Black caricature has nothing to do with a bunch of bat-shit conservative conspiracy theorists who are impatiently waiting on the second coming of Rust-Orange Jesus.

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Equally confusing is Carlson’s declaration that Fox News won’t be “calling for the Department of Justice” to look into Lemon’s ownership of a racist figurine because, “That’s not our place, we’re a cable news show, not a law enforcement agency. But let’s just put it this way. If you find yourself with a black face cookie jar in your own kitchen, it’s time to reflect.”

It appears that Carlson thinks owning racist memorabilia is illegal, but since he’s had the opposite energy towards the removal of Confederate monuments, it’s safe to say that he’s just putting on airs for his viewers, many of whom probably own some blackface collector’s items of their own.

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Don’t get me wrong: If I happen to be walking through Lemon’s house and I saw that cookie jar, I’m definitely giving Lemon the “WTF?” look, but who the hell is Carlson to question it? First of all, he’s white and Black people generally don’t give a shit what white people think of our reclaiming or reframing of things that came from white supremacy. Secondly, this is the same Tucker Carlson who recently had a white pseudoscientist on his show to explain that racism isn’t what’s holding Black people back, it’s actually the low number of IQ points produced by our tiny negro brains in comparison to the IQs of white people’s far superior whitey minds.

So yes, for a certain Republican PornHub news anchor, it is indeed “time to reflect.”

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