February 10, 2017: Carlson complained that on college campuses “everybody gets a safe space except white men. They are hated and despised.” During his Fox show, Carlson interviewed then-Daily Caller columnist Scott Greer, author of the book No Campus for White Men, and claimed that creating safe spaces for marginalized groups demonstrates that “the hysteria level is rising.” The Daily Caller -- which Carlson co-founded -- fired Greer in 2018 after The Atlantic revealed his ties to white nationalists and members of the “alt-right” like Richard Spencer.

March 8, 2017: In an interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, Carlson dismissed Ramos’ opinion as a Hispanic American by claiming Ramos looks “whiter than I am.” Carlson demanded that Ramos explain his statement in reference to immigrants that the United States is “our country.” Ramos explained that he meant that “the Trump administration and many people who support Donald Trump, they think it is their country, that it is a white country and they are absolutely wrong. … Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, whites, it is our country, Tucker.” Carlson dismissed his response by commenting on his appearance, saying, “I don’t know exactly what you mean by white or Latino,” because “you are white, obviously, you’re whiter than I am. You’ve got blue eyes.”

March 13, 2017: Carlson hosted Congressman and white supremacist Steve King and defended him after King received backlash for a racist tweet. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) faced backlash when he tweeted in support of right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders, writing, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Carlson hosted King on his show to defend his racist remarks and said to him, “Everything you said, I think, is defensible and probably right.” Carlson again invited King on his show later in July to talk about his proposal of defunding Planned Parenthood to build a wall along the southern U.S. border. King has a history of elevating neo-Nazis and known white supremacists on Twitter, and he has cited the white nationalist publication VDare on his congressional website, .

April 3, 2017: Carlson mocked the inclusion of women scientists of color in the March for Science meant that the organizers “hate white men more than they hate global warming.”

April 17, 2017: While ranting about “more than 350,000 migrants” arriving in Europe, Carlson referred to the refugee influx as an “invasion” changing Europe’s demographics. Carlson reported that “more than 7,000 African migrants” had arrived in Italy in the days prior, and warned that “many of them will remain, some for generations, as beneficiaries of European welfare states.” He said that the refugees arrived “without invitation illegally and at public expense” and fearmongered that they would “forever and profoundly change the demographics of the continent in ways that pretty much nobody who was born there ever asked for or wanted.”

May 3, 2017: Carlson stated he was “pretty sympathetic” to the “alt-right,” anti-Semite troll known online as “Baked Alaska.” While interviewing Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith, Carlson said that he was “pretty sympathetic” to former Buzzfeed employee turned “alt-right” troll Tim Gionet, who is known online as “Baked Alaska.” After quitting Buzzfeed, Gionet claimed that Jews control the media, went on to participate in the 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, and started a YouTube live stream show in which he hosted neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

May 10, 2017: Carlson falsely claimed that a racist Texas voter ID law that several courts found to be discriminatory against minority voters had “nothing to do with race.” Carlson tried to defend the 2011 Texas voter ID law SB 14, claiming it had “nothing to do with race.”However, several courts found the law not only discriminated against minority voters but also was created with the “intent to discriminate against minority voters.” In 2016, a federal appeals court explained that under the law, Black voters would be “1.78 times more likely than Whites, and Latinos 2.42 times more likely, to lack” the ID required to vote.

May 30, 2017: Carlson took issue with media portraying a murderer from Portland, OR, as a white supremacist. Carlson reacted to the news that a man, after berating Muslims on a train in Portland, OR, had stabbed two bystanders who tried to contain him by saying the perpetrator “hardly” exhibited “the behavior of a coherent white supremacist,” and that media, “like progressives everywhere, ... see racists under every bed.”

June 26, 2017: Carlson defended Trump’s Muslim ban by asserting “it doesn’t ban Muslims.” As Carlson’s guest explained, “The six countries that it banned, the only thing that they have in common is they are majority Muslim countries.

June 26, 2017: Carlson lashed out after Alaska renamed Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, calling it an “attack on civilization.” Carlson said the refusal “to commemorate the discovery of the New World by Europeans” was absurd and that colonization led to “more human freedom and happiness” and “far less human sacrifice and cannibalism.”

June 29, 2017: Carlson claimed that “the left” calls Trump vulgar, even though the liberals “applauded when Obama vacationed with rappers.” Carlson claimed that the left hated President Donald Trump not because “he’s vulgar, though he is,” but “because he’s a nationalist who says the interests of America and its people ought to come first.” As evidence, Carlson cited that “the left” had “applauded when Barack Obama vacationed with rappers.”

July 10, 2017: After asking if “the Western civilization” was “superior” than the cultures of Middle Eastern immigrants coming to the United States, Carlson denied even knowing “what ‘white nationalist’ means.” Carlson engaged in a screaming match with guest Brad Woodhouse and suggested immigrants were bringing “sharia law” and dismissed Woodhouse’s argument that people writing Trump’s speeches have white nationalist ties, saying, “I don’t even know what ‘white nationalist’ means.”

July 17, 2017: Carlson used the slur “gypsies” and claimed that Roma immigrants have “little regard for either the law or public decency.” Carlson hyped reports that a group of Roma asylum seekers were settling in Pennsylvania and “integration is not going well” because “citizens say they defecate in public, chop the heads off chickens, leave trash everywhere, and more.” He complained, “This has been a distinct group for a thousand years that actually hasn’t assimilated, for the most part, into the cultures in which it’s been hosted.” The Roma, who Carlson referred to as “gypsies,” were a target of the Nazi ethnic cleansing project.

August 15, 2017: Carlson objected to the push to remove Confederate statues comparing it to the extremism of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and Mao in China. A day after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Carlson hosted a segment on the issue of removing Confederate statues from public spaces and accused activists of “trying to delegitimize the U.S. government and the traditions of American society because they don't believe in them.”

August 15, 2017: Carlson attempted to minimize America’s history of slavery by pointing out that Aztecs, Africans and Mohammed had slaves too. A day after the Charlottesville rally, Carlson tried to minimize the impact of American slavery by saying we shouldn’t “judge the past by the standards of the present.”

August 16, 2017: Carlson attacked tech companies for banning white supremacists from their platforms. Two days after the Charlottesville rally, Carlson said tech companies banning white supremacists from using their platforms should be “brought to heel” and called them “far less trustworthy” than the monopolies of the Gilded Age. He also fearmongered that tech companies -- not white supremacists -- “could make this country a place you would not want to live.”

August 24, 2017: Carlson said NFL players “hate your country” because of their protests against “racism or something.” Carlson characterized NFL players kneeling during national anthem to protest systematic racial injustice as “many of the league’s richest players” going “out of their way to let you know how much they hate your country.” He also dismissively mentioned the reasons behind the protests as “racism or something.”

August 31, 2017: After the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a list of Confederate monuments in the country, Carlson lashed out and accused the center of threatening violence. In reaction to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s press release calling for Confederate monuments to be taken down, Carlson said, “That sounds like a threat to me.”

September 5, 2017: Carlson went to bat for Gab, a social media site dubbed a “haven for white nationalists.” Carlson hosted Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a social media app that has been described as a “haven for white nationalists” and a “magnet for the alt-right.” Carlson defended the app and joined Torba in attacking Google and Apple for removing it for promoting “hate speech,” while conveniently ignoring the extremist content that proliferates on Gab.

September 7, 2017: Carlson’s proposed solution to California’s overcrowded prisons was deportation. During a conversation about California’s mass incarceration system, Carlson repeatedly inquired “what percentage of its inmates are foreign nationals” and suggested deportation as a solution to overcrowding.

September 11, 2017: Carlson claimed that the lesson of the September 11 terror attacks is that “not all cultures are equal.” In commemorating the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Carlson said that the “first” lesson to learn is that “not all cultures are equal” and that the United States must “treasure and try to preserve” that which makes it “distinct.”

September 18, 2017: Carlson claimed that striving for diversity “gets you to civil war.” During a discussion of the 2017 Emmy awards ceremony, Carlson bizarrely attacked actress and director Issa Rae for saying she was rooting for Black people to win, saying that is “opposite of diversity." Carlson also claimed that advocating for diversity in entertainment “gets you to civil war.”

September 20, 2017: Carlson lashed out after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) linked former Chairman of Breitbart News Steve Bannon to racism. Carlson defended Breitbart News from accusations of racism by saying he reads it and knows “most people who work over there” and they aren’t “Klansmen.” Breitbart has a history of employing extremists, including former tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who used to run drafts of some Breitbart content by white nationalists for feedback.

September 20, 2017: Carlson told a Black guest he understood the struggle with racism because “I'm an American.” While hand-wringing over a children’s football team taking a knee during the national anthem to show solidarity with NFL athletes protesting police brutality, Carlson told guest Freddie Mitchell, a former NFL player who is Black, that oppression of African-Americans in America “is an overstatement.”

September 26, 2017: Carlson had a meltdown after a Black guest pointed out Carlson wouldn’t understand what it's like to be “brutalized” by police, accused him of playing “the victim card.” Carlson accused his guest Scott Bolden, a Black lawyer, of playing “the victim card” for talking about his personal experience with police brutality. Carlson also claimed that saying there are racially two Americas was “garbage”.

October 19, 2017: Carlson defended Trump from charges of racism against Puerto Ricans because “Puerto Rico is 75 percent white, according to the U.S. Census.” Carlson characterized as “unfounded” the charges that the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was racist. Carlson added that “the race angle” bothered him because “it makes people hate each other, and it’s just stupid.”

October 20, 2017: Carlson dismissed Trump's birther conspiracy theories against Obama, claiming they weren't racist. Carlson claimed that Trump’s birther question was “factual,” not racist.

October 25, 2017: Carlson cited changing European demographics and immigration to justify the rise of white nationalism. Carlson blamed immigration to the U.S. and to European countries for creating a “volatile society,” and claimed white backlash was a result of not giving people who don’t like it “a chance to weigh-in”. He also dismissed the rise in white nationalism and characterized his guest’s argument warning against it “fearmongering” and “hysterical and silly.”

October 31, 2017: Carlson baselessly characterized terrorism as something that “seems obviously tied to immigration.” Carlson asserted that immigration is fueling a rise in terrorism and questioned why the U.S. refuses to have a conversation about it.

November 1, 2017: Carlson referred to the victims of a New York terrorist attack as “martyrs to a diversity cult worshiped by our ruling class.” In response to a deadly terror attack in New York City allegedly carried out by an immigrant who came to the U.S. on a diversity visa, Carlson claimed the victims were “martyrs to a diversity cult worshiped by our ruling class” and accused “this country's leaders” of deciding “that diversity, in and of itself, is of greater importance than the well-being of this country's people.”

November 6, 2017: Carlson smeared immigrants as criminals by portraying violent gangs like MS-13 as “one manifestation” of immigration. Carlson characterized immigration as “actually a threat” and suggested the brutal gang MS-13 was “one manifestation” of immigration. He justified this characterization, claiming, “There’s nothing racist about saying that.” Carlson conveniently ignored that “the attention that MS-13 has received is disproportionate to its impact” and that the gang originated in the U.S. ProPublica’s Hannah Dreier, who has reported on the gang for over a year, has explained that the gang focuses its terrorizing on “young Latino immigrants in a few specific communities.”

November 9, 2017: Carlson referred to supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program protesting its termination as “a literal horde of illegal immigrants [who] stormed Capitol Hill today.” Carlson also wondered why elected leaders in the U.S. hate Americans so much as evidenced by the current immigration policies. Carlson complained that not enough arrests had been made, saying that “we don’t people in America” even if they engage in protests that are “illegal on about eight different levels.”

November 30, 2017: Carlson defended the racist “Britain First” Twitter account that Trump retweeted. Following backlash after Trump retweeted anti-Muslim propaganda from British extremist Jayda Fransen, Carlson defended Fransen and characterized criticism of Trump’s retweet as “creeping fascism” and as an assault on free speech by those who hold a “diversity agenda.”

December 20, 2017: Carlson fearmongered that Democrats want “demographic replacement” with a “flood of illegals” to create “a flood of voters for them.” Carlson accused Democrats of having no interest in using immigration to better the country but wanting to build their own political base by bringing in a “flood of illegals.” He framed immigration as “demographic replacement,” echoing a white nationalist slogan that perpetuates the baseless claim that there’s a “white genocide” underway.

December 22, 2017: On Twitter, Carlson linked to explicitly racist YouTube channel Red Ice TV, then deleted the tweet. As end-of-year content, Carlson was tweeting out what appeared to be a tongue-in-cheek list of 100 things that had been called racist in 2017. For item 19, Carlson tweeted out a link to Red Ice TV, an explicitly racist media operation with a wide-reaching YouTube channel which hosts Holocaust deniers and criticizes interracial relationships. While Carlson deleted the tweet after some backlash, Red Ice TV relished in the attention and devoted a video to the incident.