Tucker Carlson has learned a valuable lesson today: If you come for K-pop, K-pop fans will pick you up.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, the Fox News host and noted that the Russian flatterer aimed at K-pop’s most dangerous target: BTS. Global megastars were in Washington to discuss “Asian inclusion and representation” and address anti-Asian discrimination with President Joe Biden, which did not sit well with Tucker.
“Yeah, so we have a Korean pop group to talk about anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States,” he said. “Okay. Good job, guys.”
If questioning the activism of one of the most popular music artists on the planet wasn’t enough to infuriate the ARMY digital infantry of BTS fans, then Carlson suggested extending White House invitations to youth icons like BTS it was helping to “degrade” America. “And it’s working,” he added.
Upon learning of Carlson’s comments, Twitter (for good reason) lost its shit, exploding with memes and fervent prayers for ARMY to demarcate the Fox bow mask into oblivion. “You don’t know the strength that has just been awakened,” one user tweeted, and anyone lucky enough to have even made a cheerful joke about BTS online would say this assessment is an understatement. Strength? Rather like a relentless pain attack 24 hours a day. In short: RIP to Tucker mentions.
Things are going so badly in the White House that even the media can no longer ignore it. pic.twitter.com/wmqZxpi81r
– Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 1, 2022
Apparently, the cable news charlatan doesn’t know that the power of K-pop, made up of Jungkook, V, Jimin, Suga, Jin, RM, and J-Hope, has previously spoken out against anti-Asian violence in the United States. , so inviting his White House is not exactly the stretch Carlson makes it. In March 2021, BTS addressed the recent wave of crimes against Asians in America. “We oppose racial discrimination,” BTS wrote in a statement accompanied by the hashtags #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate. “We remember times when we faced discrimination as Asians. We endured insults for no reason and they made fun of us for our way of seeing. They even asked us why Asians spoke English.”
“Our way of thinking is that everything we do, and our very existence, contributes to the hope of leaving behind this xenophobia, these negative things. It is also our hope that the people of the minority will draw some energy and strength from our existence, “RM told Rolling Stone on the cover of the group in May 2021.” Yes, there is xenophobia, but also There are a lot of people who are very accepting … The fact that we have been successful in the United States is very significant in itself. “
Ultimately, BTS’s comments only served as a poorly planned preamble to an interview with fellow shit Candace Owens about Biden’s White House “mess”. BTS is unlikely to be bothered by Carlson’s joke, especially before the upcoming release of his anthology album, Proof. But Tucker? He only guaranteed that his answers would become a wasteland of Jimin fan cameras and J-Hope GIFs for all eternity.
All right, ARMY. You have done your duty.