GOP congressman says Black Lives Matter movement is 'at war' with Western culture
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"The Democrat 'Black Lives Matter' Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture," Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) wrote in a Facebook post. "Their radical movement is orchestrated and growing. We must never let them take power. We must stand up and defend our county, our nation's identity, our Judeo-Christian values and our American way of life."
Hagedorn was upset about a tweet by activist Shaun King — who has not actually been a Democrat since 2016 — suggesting that statues depicting Jesus as a white European are "a form of white supremacy" and should come down.
The first-term lawmaker's framing of the entire Black Lives Matter movement and Democratic Party as a threat to "western culture" is a dog whistle term for white nationalists. The term is frequently used by racist hate groups as a stand-in for "white."
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Hagedorn once even urged that Ronald Reagan's face be added to Mount Rushmore, writing that "room exists if we flatten Lincoln's image."
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