Steve King is a virulent racist -- why be surprised? He represents the current GOP perfectly

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, MAR 13, 2017 11:58 AM EDT

Steve King is a virulent racist — why be surprised? He represents the current Republican Party perfectly

Not every Republican talks openly about "somebody else's babies," but hateful sentiments suffuse the entire GOP

CHAUNCEY DEVEGA

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This is not the first time King has trafficked in white supremacy. His portfolio of bigotry and racism includes claims that white people have “contributed more to civilization” and that others constitute some type of racial “subgroup.” Not surprisingly, he has also defended the American swastika — that is the Confederate battle flag.

King’s racist comments are also part of a much larger chorus of white supremacy that has recently swept across Europe in the form of far- right-wing political parties such as the National Front in France, Jobbik in Hungary and Wilders’ Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. This racist nativism has now borne rotten fruit in the United States with the rise of the Donald Trump and the white nationalist and white supremacist movement known as the alt-right.

Echoing King, President Donald Trump has said that Mexicans come to America in order to rape and kill white people. Representing the very definition of “old-fashioned” racism, he has said that by virtue of his ancestry a Mexican-American judge would be unable to act fairly in a case against Trump. And Trump also believes in a version of the scientific racism endorsed by Madison Grant during the first part of the 20th century that there are “superior” and “inferior” genes and that people can be bred like horses. As such, it is not surprising that racial terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan endorsed Trump’s candidacy or that white supremacists have been unified and enthusiastic in their praise of his policies.

Trump’s closest advisers and confidantes possess beliefs and attitudes that are not much different from those of Steve King.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has joked about his support of the Ku Klux Klan and used a racial slur to describe an African-American attorney. He has actively worked to roll back the civil rights of people of color, women and LGBT people and surely will not make protecting the civil rights of racial or other minority groups a priority for the Department of Justice.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/03/13/steve-king-is-a-virulent-racist-why-be-surprised-he-represents-the-current-republican-party-perfectly/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP is based in racism, without it they have nothing.

Think about it, how do you convince a guy making $25K a year that rich people dont have enough money unless you appeal to his racism?

Wont work.

[dalton99a]

3. Bingo.

[gopiscrap]

2. Exactly

it's the problem we have with the middle. The west and east coast need to form a country and tell the rest of these assholes to go fuck themsleves

[matt819]

4. 104 non-white members of congress

And yet only one of them has condemned king's racism, Ted Lieu.

Where are the other 103 non--white members of Congress? Where are the white members of congress who find king's racism odious and unAmerican? Silent as the grave. No longer shocked. Black is white. Down is up. Right is wrong. Good is bad. Fucking Bizarro world.