WATCH: Carlson Blames Mass Shooting on Women Lecturing Young White Men About Privilege

The hosts of Fox News have a standard practice whenever there is a mass shooting in the United States; blame everything but the gun. The most recent shooting, in Highland Park, Illinois, was allegedly carried out by Robert Crimo III. Crimo III attended Donald Trump rallies and had photos of himself draped in Trump flags.

For this reason, Tucker Carlson might have been even more eager to offer up a defense for him. Young white men like Crimo, the Fox host opined, are tired of being lectured by women about their privilege.

Carlson told his audience, “because there’s a lot of young men in America who suddenly look and act a lot like this guy. That’s not an attack, it’s just true. Like Crimo, they inhabit a solitary fantasy world of social media, porn, and video games. They are high on government-endorsed weed. ‘Smoke some more! It’s good for you.’ They’re numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out at every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors.”

The Fox host continued:

“And of course, they are angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents, they’ll be worse.  That’s all but guaranteed, they know that — they’re not that stupid. And yet the authorities in their lives — mostly women — never stops lecturing them about their so-called privilege. ‘You’re male! You’re privileged.’ Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So, a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you surprised?”