A sociology professor at the University of Connecticut who believes white supremacy helped give Donald Trump the presidency clashed with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night.
Matthew Hughey appeared on Carlson's show to discuss his upcoming lecture, "Make America White Again–The Racial Reasoning of American Nationalism," according to Fox News.
Carlson began the discussion by asking Hughey to explain how white supremacy caused the election of Donald Trump.
"I don't argue that white supremacy alone caused Trump to win, but I say that it's a huge factor in his victory. For the same reason that 44 out of the 45 presidents of the United states have been white men," Hughey argued. "That's not a coincidence; that's a pretty startling fact."
Carlson pushed back on the professor's thesis.
"Why would a country based on and committed to the perpetuation of white supremacy let in 60 million people, only 12 percent of whom are from Europe?" he asked.
"What instead is happening today is the same as forced immigration from slavery. We brought in lots of slaves to the United States that outpaced a lot of European immigrants under white supremacy," Hughey responded.
Carlson quickly pointed out that slavery was non-voluntary, unlike America's current immigration system. After continued debate, Carlson pushed the professor to explain why a white supremacist nation would allow millions of minorities to immigrate.
"People are pushed in or pulled in to different nations for economic reasons, political reasons, what have you. The United States trades on using immigrants to do labor that the dominant class often doesn't want to do," the sociology professor said.
Carlson responded to the academic, arguing, "You don't get challenged much I guess in college, but a lot of them become rich, or some percentage of them do."