GOP Congressman Steve King Just Made An Argument For White Supremacy On Live TV

[moonbladem]

Rep. Steve King suggested no “other subgroup of people” has contributed as much.

Comments

[jrh19782002]

everytime I turn on cnn/fox news somebody is speaking and saying some of the most wtf things ive ever seen/heard.

[londonsquare]

Hi Steve King, the ancient Arabic civilizations called - they would like to take back surgery, algebra, toothbrushes, and coffee back from western civilization.

[maynardsong]

And India (well, actually I guess Pakistan) would like its indoor plumbing back.

[natyanayaki]

It's complicated because Harappa and Mohenjo Daro are located in modern day Pakistan, but there's a lot of evidence that suggests that the cultural inheritors of the civilization are likely Dravidians (South Indians mainly, but there are other Dravidian communities throughout South Asia).

[roseembolism]

Oh and the Middle East wants writing, agriculture and cities back. And if King likes guns, then China would like to have a little word as well. Oh well, at least he'll always have his potatoes and corn chips- oh wait.

The problem is, just allowing someone like him to support his views without being challenged normalized them. People who don't have a grasp of history will be going "He has a point." The moderator really fell down on the job there.

[lightframes]

People are getting bold. I can't believe he had the nerve to say this hateful and factually incorrect statement on national television.

[shortsweetcynic]

i guess with trump as their bullhorn they're not even needing to resort to dogwhistles anymore, are they?

what a shitshow. i am somehow simultaneously no longer surprised and even more deeply horrified by everything i read.