A Common Mistake

Tucker Carlson calls Baltimore "one of the worst places in the western hemisphere, it's a little bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic." pic.twitter.com/7rpJeLziC9

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) February 2, 2022

I sounded off last night regarding Tucker Carlson's comparing Baltimore to Haiti about how it was racist and unfair and all, but this morning I thought it was an awful lot of words to apply to Carlson when "racist and unfair" will do, and describes his general work product anyway. I was overthinking it and him--a common mistake. What he's getting at boils down to "blue America"--crime-ridden hellholes/"red America", efficient and virtuous. I deleted the post, but re-reading the captioning, my brain turned over with a clunk: "Look away! Look away!"

And my neurons whispered, "Dixieland."  Welp.