Thread by @PadmaLakshmi

TW: Incredibly racist language

This is Blake Neff, the head writer for @TuckerCarlson's show who was forced to resign today after years of posting vile racist comments under a pseudonym "CharlesXII" (a nod to a celibate king of Sweden) and cyber-stalking women.

Just this week he commented on a thread with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" this: "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (text censored here, but wasn't censored in forum) mediaite.com/tv/lead-writer…

Neff worked at @FoxNews for nearly four years & was
@TuckerCarlson's top writer. - @CNN

In a recent interview in @DartmouthMag, Neff said "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me."
dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/Blake…

On June 5th Neff commented, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down."

On June 24th he wrote, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep."

When asked on @TheFive about the writing process for his show, @TuckerCarlson said he spends hours working on scripts, but referred to Neff by name, saying he was a "wonderful writer" and acknowledging his assistance. -
@CNN cnn.com/2020/07/10/med…

".@TuckerCarlson credited Neff in the acknowledgments of his book, 'Ship of Fools,' for providing research.

In the acknowledgments, Carlson said that Neff and two others who helped with the book 'work on and greatly improve our nightly show on Fox.'" - @CNN

".@TuckerCarlson also counts @realDonaldTrump among his most loyal viewers. On multiple occasions, the President has tweeted out videos of Carlson's program.

Which is to say, the scripts that Neff likely helped write and shape were being shared by" Trump - @CNN

Neff specifically cyber-stalked and targeted Asian women on @autoadmitdotcom using terms like "Azn megashrew,"

Of another woman he was a friends with on Facebook who was freezing her eggs he posted: "Disaster: WuFlu outbreak endangers aging shrew's quest to freeze eggs."

"On the Fourth of July, Neff started a thread in which he jokingly "rated" members of the community using images from a 1990s video game from the makers of 'Oregon Trail' that was pulled from the market due to its racist depictions of slaves."

Neff assigned one user an image of a slave catcher, to which the user replied "[thank you] massa Charles for dis."

In 2019 he started a thread titled, "Urban business idea: He Didn't Do Muffin!" He joked one item could be, "Sandra Bland's Sugar-free Shortbreads!"

So just to be crystal clear: @TuckerCarlson's program, the highest-rated show in the history of cable news, was primarily written by a racist incel named Blake Neff and naturally @realDonaldTrump consistently endorsed it.

So when we talk about systemic, govt endorsed racism and propaganda from the top down: this is what we’re talking about.

This is not an issue of people being “too sensitive” or “PC”- this is blatant hatred & white supremacy reinforced nightly by @TuckerCarlson on @FoxNews