Newly clear audio has US political media persona Tucker Carlson protecting a person who acquired a criminal conviction for arranging child marriages in the US. The sound changed recorded over a decade ago, during appearances through Carlson at the Bubba the Love Sponge radio display. In subsequent audio recordings, Carlson makes use of racist and homophobic slurs.
Carlson is heard at the audio backing the accused, pronouncing: “He’s in jail because he’s bizarre and unpopular, and he has a different way of life that different people find creepy.” He then went on to say that rape of a child inside the context of marriage is by hook or by crook, unique from other sorts of rape. “In this example, the therapist has made a lifelong dedication to stay and cope with this individual. So it’s far a little one-of-a-kind,” he says. In the audio, Carlson also says that arranging a wedding between a sixteen-yr-antique and a 27-year-vintage isn’t similar to pulling a stranger off the street and raping her. Carlson isn’t backing down from his comments. Instead, he says he became stuck “announcing something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago.” He is then demanding situations “[a]nyone who disagrees with [his] perspectives” to return to his show and give an explanation for why.
Here’s why: Human Rights Watch has documented the devastating impact infant marriage has on girls worldwide. Compared to women who marry after 18, married women are much more likely to drop out of college, live in poverty, and be victims of home violence. Child marriage also frequently causes severe health dangers due to early pregnancy, which threatens both girls and their toddlers’ lives.
Every 12 months around the sector, 12 million girls marry before 18, and America is no exception. With an infant, marriage comes bad lifelong results for girls.
Carlson’s comments are deeply troubling. They make mild of a practice that threatens the rights and health of girls.
While there is growing popularity that infant marriage is a serious human rights violation, Carlson’s comments are indefensible.
