6 highlights from Joe Rogan's interview with Tucker Carlson

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, April 23, 2024

The morality of nuclear weapons

Carlson also questioned the morality of the United States dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 and expressed disgust that conservatives have justified killing large numbers of civilians with them, including many children.

"I love, by the way, that people on my side — I'll just admit it, 'on the right' — have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians," he said. "It's like, are you joking? That's just like prima facie evil."

???? Tucker Carlson on the atomic bombs

"My 'side' has spent the last 80 years defending the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilians...like, are you joking? If you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."

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Dismissing the common argument that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified because it brought a swift end to a war that would likely have lingered indefinitely and cost many American and Japanese lives, Carlson said, "No, it's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil. It's not a tough one, it's not a hard call."

Carlson's opinions about nuclear weapons drew the ire of other conservatives such as Ben Shapiro, who argued that the atomic bombing of Japan was a necessary move to prevent a worse outcome. Shapiro blasted Carlson's entire interview with Rogan as laden with "conspiratorial things," noting how they also touched on unconventional theories regarding the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and 9/11.

According to Japanese estimates, the two atomic bombs killed between 129,000 to 226,000 people, though a U.S. government report from July 1945 estimated the planned Allied invasion of the Japanese Home Islands would have cost 5 to 10 million Japanese lives, according to The Wall Street Journal.