Tucker Carlson: If 'White rage' is a medical condition, how do you catch it?

'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host reacts to the military's focus on racial identity.

Fifty years after the civil war, one of the country’s leading medical dictionaries continued to maintain an entry for drapetomania. In retrospect, of course, we’d call Samuel Cartright a bigot, which he undoubtedly was. But he was also more than that. Cartright was a practitioner of something called scientific racism. Scientific racism is deeper than simple prejudice. It’s the use to science to justify the dominance of one group over another group. Scientific racism has a history as long as science, simply because the impulse to dominate is inherent to human nature.   It’s not really about color, though it’s called racism. Instead, it’s about power. Martin Luther King wrote eloquently about this. So did Dr. Seuss. You might want to take a look, assuming you can still buy their books. The point is, scientific racism never actually went away. It’s still with us. No one talks about drapetomania anymore. Instead, our medical professionals and law professors and military leaders and politicians and cable news hosts have identified a new disorder they claim explains everything bad. It’s called Whiteness.