Far-right Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson has raised lots of eyebrows after giving some very bizarre advice to a college student he interviewed on his show.
Carlson recently had a conversation with 18-year-old University of Chicago student Daniel Schmidt, a YouTuber with a popular channel called Piece of Schmidt.
What pearls of wisdom did Carlson have for America's collegiate youth? Drop out of college and go have a bunch of kids at 18 years old.
No, seriously. See Carlson's comments below.
\u201cTucker\u2019s advice to young men: \u201cDrop out of college. College is ridiculous .. Get married .. have more children than you can afford, take a job you\u2019re not qualified for, go balls out.\u201d\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
Carlson's conversation with Schmidt began with him railing against the so-called "rise of secularism" in America, a strange allegation to make about a country where Christian extremists are successfully rolling back long-held rights and protections.
But then things got even weirder when Schmidt asked Carlson for his two cents on the value of education and marriage.
Carlson replied:
"Just dive face first into it. Drop out of college."
"College is ridiculous, unless you're moving towards some very specialized degree that you can only get in college; you wanna be a veterinarian or physicist or something."
"But if you're in humanities, I can give you a list of 100 books you can find on the internet. And you'll be better educated than you will be at whatever stupid college you go to, A."
Okay, with the high cost of education and today's insanely tough job market that's not the most unhinged advice ever given. But then... well, things took a hard turn when Carlson got to his Point 'B,' about what young people should do instead of going to college.
"B, get married... have more children than you can afford, take a job you’re not qualified for, go balls out.”
Um... okay...
Carlson did not explain how young people are supposed to get jobs for which they are unqualified if they don't go to college, nor the value of having more kids than you're able to support, but surely he has reasons.
He did, however, say men should look for two qualifications in the wife with whom they are to have more children than they can afford--they should be "hot and nice." Charming guy, that Tucker.
On Twitter, Carlson's advice went over about as well as you might expect--especially given Carlson's patrician background as the heir to a frozen-food fortune
\u201cTucker Swanson McNear Carlson, stepson of a Swanson heiress/Fulbright scion, graduate of St. George's School & Trinity College was advised by his father to join the CIA, bc "they'll take anybody." (They rejected him.) He earns $35 Million/yr in Fox News salary alone.\u201d— Swaggering Toward Bethlehem (@Swaggering Toward Bethlehem) 1658761133
\u201cTucker Carlson, who attended Trinity College in Connecticut, and inherited a fortune from his extremely rich family, wants his young male fans \u201cto have more children than you can afford.\u201d \nhttps://t.co/LtawN0TRrV\u201d— Michael Edison Hayden (@Michael Edison Hayden) 1658724761
\u201c@RonFilipkowski Remember that time tucker asked hunter biden for a recommendation letter for carlsons sons application to Georgetown?\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski They want you uneducated.\nSaddled with kids you can\u2019t afford.\nThey want you tethered to a life where you are DESPERATE for someone, anyone to tell you \u2018they\u2019ve got you\u2019.\nThat your whiteness alone makes you \u2018great\u2019.\nAnd that they \u2018get that\u2019.\nThey aren\u2019t even pretending anymore.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski He's summarizing the core beliefs of the Delta Tau Chi Fraternity House circa 1962.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski Republicans don't want people to get too educated because they're likely to become Democrats if they do\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski I'm starting to think Republican Wealthy Oligarchs are worried about the supply chain of low wage workers.\ud83e\udd14\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski Imagine what Tucker would say if Obama said this exact same thing\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201c@RonFilipkowski [narrator] Tucker's children are in elite private schools.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1658706937
\u201cTremendous advice if you happen to be the heir to a frozen food fortune.\u201d— Andrew Fleischman (@Andrew Fleischman) 1658707603
During the interview, Carlson also called reproduction "the highest level of achievement there is," railed against pornography and the internet, and lashed out at his conservative critics. Sounds about as coherent as a certain former President he loves so much.
