Vanity Fair: Steve King defense of Western civilization ‘white supremacist’ talk - Washington Times

[TomSea]

Vanity Fair: Steve King defense of Western civilization ‘white supremacist’ talk

Iowa Rep. Steve King was blasted by Vanity Fair and a slew of other media outlets on Monday night for allegedly racist comments in defense of Western civilization.

Esquire magazine’s Charles Pierce told an MSNBC panel at the Republican convention in Cleveland that he was optimistic “this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican party’s attention, its platform, its public face.” Mr. King then countered the premise that skin color has any bearing on a philosophy’s merits.

“This ‘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’re talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?” the Iowa congressman said.

“Than white people?” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked.

“Than Western civilization itself. It’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,” Mr. King said.

Vanity Fair then published a piece headlined “Congressman Steve King Makes White Supremacist Comments on Live TV.”

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An interesting discussion if one reads up on it.

And I agree, pretty tiring when the ol' "Republican party is the party of old white people" remarks. Reverse racism? Who's been watching MSNBC lately?

[Fishrrman]

Fishrrman's credo:
Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.

Where did "Western" civilization come from?

Seems it came from Western Europe.

And who populated Western Europe?

Seems like mostly Caucasians ... in other words, "white folks".

Mr. King is absolutely right.

"Western Civilization" -is- largely (nearly totally) the construct of one race of people.

To try to state otherwise is to ignore reality.

Why should we not be proud of this?

[Free Vulcan]

Our state treasure Steve King speaks truth once again.