Congressman Steve King under fire for xenophobic remarks - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Rep. Steve King is making headlines again, after backing up far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on social media. On Sunday, the Republican congressman showed support for the anti-Islam Wilders on Twitter by retweeting this post from Voice of Europe.[/QUOTE] [Media]https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169[/media] [url]https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/12/rep-steve-king-under-fire-for-support-of-far-right-dutch-politi/21880458/[/url] Past history for Steve King: [URL="http://wapo.st/29PHC89?tid=ss_tw-amp"]Rep. Steve King wonders what ‘sub-groups’ besides whites made contributions to civilization[/URL]

This is dumb enough already, but then you remember we're a nation of immigrants, and we don't even have a concrete culture.

It's cool that America's right-wingers are starting to sound like Europe's right-wingers, adopting this kind of blood-and-soil clash-of-civilizations kind of rhetoric.

There is only one word for a person like him: "moron." Oh, and another: "racist."

Steve King is a closeted white supremacist.

A phobia is an irrational or extreme fear. This isn't either. Keep those radicals out.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51950876]Steve King is a closeted white supremacist.[/QUOTE] he is a very open white supremacist

[QUOTE=sannys;51950944]A phobia is an irrational or extreme fear. This isn't either. Keep those radicals out.[/QUOTE] I'll take "deflecting the point and being ignorant" for 300 points, Trebek. King is literally saying that everyone who isn't from the US or the WASP countries should be "kept out". This isn't a case of radicals, this is xenophobia. He even got praised by David Duke, a former KKK leader, for the RT.

[QUOTE=Omilinon;51950977]I'll take "deflecting the point and being ignorant" for 300 points, Trebek. King is literally saying that everyone who isn't from the US or the WASP countries should be "kept out". This isn't a case of radicals, this is xenophobia. He even got praised by David Duke, a former KKK leader, for the RT.[/QUOTE] Here's the image he's talking about. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6radvKXAAAiBb-.jpg[/img] He is very obviously speaking about radicals. And wow. He was praised by someone who did something bad. Is that supposed to make him a bad person or something?

[QUOTE=sannys;51950944]A phobia is an irrational or extreme fear. This isn't either. Keep those radicals out.[/QUOTE] He's not talking about radicals, he's talking about Muslims, he's talking about the [I]children[/I] of Muslims.

[QUOTE][IMG]https://puu.sh/uGg0H/1737cd578b.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] politics is really fucking weird these days

[QUOTE=sannys;51950988]Here's the image he's talking about. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6radvKXAAAiBb-.jpg[/img] He is very obviously speaking about radicals. And wow. He was praised by someone who did something bad. Is that supposed to make him a bad person or something?[/QUOTE] Except all the radicals are on his side of the wall. On the other side of the wall is just a wave of brown sludge that's stamped with the star and crescent, which is not a terrorist symbol, but a generic Muslim one.

[QUOTE=1239the;51950993]politics is really fucking weird these days[/QUOTE] jontron defending Steve King, an ethonationalist :thinking:

Because Steve "I dodged the draft multiple times during the Vietnam War and never finished college after it ended" King has made [i]numerous[/i] valuable contributions to Western civilization and to the United States... Why is it always the people who qualify as vermin by their own criteria that make claims like this?

[QUOTE=sannys;51950988]Here's the image he's talking about. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6radvKXAAAiBb-.jpg[/img] He is very obviously speaking about radicals. And wow. He was praised by someone who did something bad. Is that supposed to make him a bad person or something?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Mr. King said: “This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?” “Than white people?” Mr. Hayes asked. Mr. King responded: “Than Western civilization itself that’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”[/QUOTE] Explain this reasoning. Please. It's also hilarious that you think that the post is thinking only about radicals, when it's depicting Muslims in the most jaw-droppingly stereotypical way I've seen and Islam as a green sludge that can only be compared to Nickelodeon gak.

[QUOTE=Govna;51951019]Because Steve "I dodged the draft multiple times during the Vietnam War and never finished college after it ended" King has made [i]numerous[/i] valuable contributions to Western civilization and to the United States... Why is it always the people who qualify as vermin by their own criteria that make claims like this?[/QUOTE] [Media]https://twitter.com/coughlan616/status/841077396090560513[/media] Its all about the "optimal" version of one race I guess??

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51950861]There is only one word for a person like him: "moron." Oh, and another: "racist."[/QUOTE] Try 'degenerate'. It tastes sour, but it's accurate.

how is this different from the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words]14 words[/url]

The right loves to distract with Islamic boogeymen while they work to systematically swindle the public, cutting deals with corporations and lining their pockets with the dirty money they're going to make shitting on the people. If we continue in this direction, more people are going to be killed over the course of the next decades by poor healthcare, emissions-related disease, and other economically related factors than terrorism could ever hope to achieve. That's before we get into the crises we'll face when sea levels begin to rise due to ice cap melts, a fact which the right has fought tooth and claw to deny. Do you know what's going to happen to the American economy when our coastal metropolitan centers are flooded? It will be the end of our country as a global superpower. These people are not your friends. They're not your valiant defenders standing at the gates, holding back the muddy tide. They're offering a trumped-up 'greater evil' so that they can get behind you and stab you in the back. I can't understand why so few people see it. It's obvious in every political move they make, everything is a justification to fellate corporate America, as if it'll somehow help the little guy when our economy has already recovered from the recession and companies are back to making record profits, yet remain tightfisted all the same. You are more likely to win the lottery, more likely to flip a coin and have it land on the edge, than you are to be killed by a Muslim in America, and probably in most parts of Europe as well. The average American male, meanwhile, has a 42% chance or so of contracting Cancer of some kind at some point in his lifetime, yet the right would have you vote to cut healthcare, ensuring that fewer will have access to proper treatment and preventative measures. Make no mistake, this [I]will[/I] increase deaths. It makes no fucking sense, it's statistically delusional. It's the equivalent of running around in a tizzy about a rash you've got on one arm while the other is a blood-gushing hacked-off stub. People need to learn to disentangle what dangers are 'shocking' from what dangers are actually worth worrying about. Wanting to take preventative measures on one front is one thing, but when you completely neglect more pressing matters, and take the side of people who want to make them [I]worse[/I], you're acting irrationally.

[QUOTE=archangel125;51951030]Try 'degenerate'. It tastes sour, but it's accurate.[/QUOTE] Actually that's one word that I'd like to see less of. I generally agree with a lot of the stuff you have to say, but seriously you throw around the word degenerate so often it losses all meaning - and its meaning is pretty flimsy to begin with. Racist and Xenophobic at least have a concrete definition, they contribute to the conversation. Degenerate is such a broad and vague term that it essentially boils down to 'person I don't like' and/or 'person who is doing things I don't like'.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;51951007]Except all the radicals are on his side of the wall. On the other side of the wall is just a wave of brown sludge that's stamped with the star and crescent, which is not a terrorist symbol, but a generic Muslim one.[/QUOTE] Lots of muslims come into the country and then want to implant their own religious ideals into the host country's systems. The comic shows him plugging the hole to stop even more of them coming and using their religion to influence the country. You don't need to be a terrorist to be a radical. [QUOTE=Omilinon;51951020]Explain this reasoning. Please. It's also hilarious that you think that the post is thinking only about radicals, when it's depicting Muslims in the most jaw-droppingly stereotypical way I've seen and Islam as a green sludge that can only be compared to Nickelodeon gak.[/QUOTE] Explain what reasoning? Mine or his? And he's not stereotyping muslims as a whole, he's stereotyping radical muslims.

[QUOTE=sannys;51951154]Lots of muslims come into the country and then want to implant their own religious ideals into the host country's systems. The comic shows him plugging the hole to stop even more of them coming and using their religion to influence the country. You don't need to be a terrorist to be a radical. Explain what reasoning? Mine or his? And he's not stereotyping muslims as a whole, he's stereotyping radical muslims.[/QUOTE] if it depicted radical terrorist christians on his side of the wall, and he was plugging a hole to stop a tide merely labeled with a cross, would you argue that it isn't depicting all christians as radicals?

[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;51950809]This is dumb enough already, but then you remember we're a nation of immigrants, and we don't even have a concrete culture.[/QUOTE] nation of european christian immigrants pre 1960s, the usa wasn't always a cesspool of vastly different cultures

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;51951183]Cool it with the racism/xenophobia. You just fucking described Muslims as a fucking disease.[/QUOTE] You hate that I hate muslims coming into a country and wanting to force women to wear hijabs? That makes me a racist? [QUOTE=bitches;51951161]if it depicted radical terrorist christians on his side of the wall, and he was plugging a hole to stop a tide merely labeled with a cross, would you argue that it isn't depicting all christians as radicals?[/QUOTE] Christian radicalism isn't even an issue in the west. Islamic radicalism is.

[QUOTE=sannys;51951184] Christian radicalism isn't even an issue in the west. Islamic radicalism is.[/QUOTE] you didn't answer my question

[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;51951166]nation of european christian immigrants pre 1960s, the usa wasn't always a cesspool of vastly different cultures[/QUOTE] The chinese that built the transcontinental railway, all the black people brought in as slaves, the native americans who lived there before america's founding and the japanese that were interned in camps during WWII would all like to have a word with you.

[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;51951166]nation of european christian immigrants pre 1960s, the usa wasn't always a cesspool of vastly different cultures[/QUOTE] who do you think built the railroads that serves as the basis for all of america's infastructure

[QUOTE=sannys;51950988]Here's the image he's talking about. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6radvKXAAAiBb-.jpg[/img] He is very obviously speaking about radicals. And wow. He was praised by someone who did something bad. Is that supposed to make him a bad person or something?[/QUOTE] I dunno looks like he's painting all muslims as radical to me.

[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;51951166]nation of european christian immigrants pre 1960s, the usa wasn't always a cesspool of vastly different cultures[/QUOTE] this might be the most historically ignorant post i've seen in a long time

[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;51951166]nation of european christian immigrants pre 1960s, the usa wasn't always a [B]cesspool [/B]of vastly different cultures[/QUOTE] this has got to be the most racist post i've seen on facepunch in a year