Congressman: Whites ‘Contribute More To Civilization’. One EPIC Tweet Proves Him Hilariously Wrong

[kpete]

Hari Kondabolu ✔ @harikondabolu
Rep. Steve King said white people contributed most to civilization.
Melania Trump then showed us how...by stealing from a Person of Color.
11:59 PM - 18 Jul 2016
2,380 2,380 Retweets 2,451 2,451 likes

https://twitter.com/harikondabolu/status/755295998335778816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/19/1549652/-Congressman-Whites-Contribute-More-To-Civilization-One-EPIC-Tweet-Proves-Him-Hilariously-Wrong

[oberliner]

1. Not really

That tweet was neither "epic" nor proof of anything.

More click bait garbage for Daily Kos.

[greiner3]

6. Dude

Get a real life. Unless you're a bot

[oberliner]

10. Huh?

Just saying that these click bait headlines are silly.

[heaven05]

19. actually it is EPIC

and true. Theft is at play here with mz trump and proof of the stupidity and ignorance of all who applauded i "the proof" or are in the process of denying, distracting and diminishing the importance of mz trumps "proof" of every word I just wrotec about thieves and their fellow travelers.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Founding Fathers designed a government never seen before... it was taught to them by the Apache!

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

39. Do you mean

the Iroquois Confederacy?

[TheBlackAdder]

44. Yeah, I meant to say the Mohawks, part of the 5 nations.

[Crash2Parties]

37. I often ignore links - thanks for pointing that out, they just got my page view :-)

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R ......for visibility..

[REALforever]

3. OMG!.. This Political season gets weirder and weirder!

What the hell can happen next!?

[Yallow]

4. Melania - Doing The Job An Amercian Won't Do - Marry The Donald

The Trumps make me sick.

[classykaren]

16. That would look great on a bumper sticker.

[helmedon1974]

30. Number Sticker

2 out of 3 of Trump's wives are immigrants. Proving once again that immigrants are willing to do the jobs Americans just won't do.

[DesertRat]

33. Yeah, that's an oldie but a goodie!

[avaistheone1]

21. LOL

[nikto]

35. An Amurkin-born woman would have married Donald ...

But she wanted more money.
So Donald outsourced..






(It's just not true that Americans don't want these jobs--They just want a Living Wage).

[Saviolo]

5. Don't tell Steve King

But that great big 2016 behind him?

Those are Arabic numbers.

[The Second Stone]

7. Indian actually

but that makes the point once more. We all borrow.

[Saviolo]

8. Indo-arabic if you want to get super-technical

But you get my point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

[The Second Stone]

13. Get your point? No, I appropriate your point as is my privilege

and then attack a dark person as a distraction.

Ta Da!!

[NewJeffCT]

38. Thanks Obama!

[avebury]

9. K & R nt

[Hekate]

11. Trump: Live by the tweet, die by the tweet.

[Bad Thoughts]

12. Agriculture? Urbanism? Writing? Which is the great white contribution? eom.

[Stonepounder]

14. Fire? The Wheel? The Inclined Plane? The Screw?

The 10 Commandments?
Christianity?
Gunpowder?

[Iggo]

18. ...and Excellent.

[heaven05]

23. gunpowder

is a Chinese discovery/invention...............

[Bad Thoughts]

25. None of them were invented by White Europeans. eom.

[Stonepounder]

26. Yes, and the Chinese are considered 'non-white' are they not? n/t

[Iggo]

17. Excellent...

[ck4829]

15. Let's not forget that "race" and "contributing to civilization" are both constructs

I wonder if King remembers that some of the most brutal wars in human history, two of them in the 20th century, were waged in Europe... that doesn't sound all that civilized.

[heaven05]

20. and a second Civil War

heating up here, based on racial superiority of some and assumed inferiority of others, is not contributing to human progress or acts of a civilized people either.

[Sanity Claws]

22. Isn't he a fan of Jesus?

Jesus was from the Middle East and a Jew.

[gratefultobelib]

24. Good one!

[Fla Dem]

45. And the general consensus is he was olive skinned.

Adding the Wikipedia explanation of "Olive Skin" so my comment is not misunderstood.

Olive skin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Olive skin is a human skin color spectrum. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type IV to Type V range of the Fitzpatrick scale.[1][2] It generally refers to light or moderate brown, brownish, or tannish skin, and it is often described as having yellowish, greenish, or golden undertones.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

However, lighter olive skin on the lower end of the Type IV coloration range may be less brownish and can in fact become somewhat pale if it receives too little sun exposure, though lighter olive skin still tans easier than fair skin and generally still retains notable yellow or greenish undertones.[12][13][14]

Geographic distribution[edit]
Type IV coloration is frequent among populations from the Mediterranean, as well as parts of Asia and Latin America.[1] It corresponds with moderate brown, typical Mediterranean skin tones.[15] This skin tone rarely burns and tans easily.[16]

Type V coloration is frequent among populations from the Middle East,[15] the Mediterranean,[1] parts of Africa,[17] Latin America,[1] and the Indian subcontinent.[18] It corresponds with darker brown, Middle Eastern skin tones.[15] This skin tone is minimally reactive to ultraviolet radiation, rarely or very rarely burns, and tans quite easily.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_skin

[Marr]

27. White people have contributed a lot.

So has every other group. White people have borrowed a lot. And so has everyone else.

[SunSeeker]

28. K & R

[mwooldri]

29. And what did the Indians give us? Nothing. Zero.

Probably the most important thing in mathematics... it was the Indians who gave us '0'.

Therefore, I'm proud to present to Steve King a little contribution from India and declare that he is zero. And that's exactly how much support and votes he will get from me politically.

[63splitwindow]

32. Yep.

[Beartracks]

36. Elitist book-lernin' is all that is.

The man's got to have his ign'unt fantasies, y'know.

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[nikto]

34. Behold the edifice of White Contributions to Humanity ...

FOOD:



FASHION:



FUN:





Unfortunately, I am kind of beige,
so I can't share in the credit.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Actually, I Like The Sweater

Now, that sweater over jeans, not so much. But, i do like the sweater.

[nikto]

46. And don't forget Ascots ...

[Albertoo]

40. It really all depends on how 'white' is defined

Prior to the Arabic invasions, the people from N. India to Europe through Turkey were 'white'.
(Ex: is Bachar al Assad 'white' or not? and how does one answer that question?)

It's still not very clear if the pre-Arab invasion N. Africa people were equally 'white'. Egypt?
Augustine of Hippo for instance lived in present Algeria without being an Arab
(Arab, like 'white', is a term with a lot of 'splaining to do)

IF one call all of the above people 'white', then the assertion made sense.
But not a lot of study has been done to answer any of this.

[OnDoutside]

41. When all is said and done, what did the

Romans ever do for us ?

[rainy]

42. Yep, by stealing their land, resources and labor!!!!!!