Representative Steve King is garnering sympathy in the form of donations from supporters as he faces backlash for questioning when terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacy” became so offensive, the Des Moines Register reported. “The unhinged left has teamed up with Republican ‘NeverTrumpers’ and is pulling out all the stops to destroy me,” King…
There was a quote in The New York Times’ recent story on Representative Steve King that grabbed headlines, about his wonderment over when terms like “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” became negative, offensive. But that angle had been covered before — he has been vocal about his white nationalist viewpoints since 2006 — so that…
House Democrats are looking to formally punish Representative Steve King for his repeatedly racist commentary, including when he questioned why terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” became offensive, Politico reported. Representative Bobby Rush announced on Monday plans to file a motion to censure King for his years-long “pattern of racist and xenophobic statements.” Representative…
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called for Congress to condemn Representative Steve King after the Iowa congressman questioned why phrases like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” were offensive. “Congress ought to vote to censure him, and then he ought to be primaried ASAP,” Shapiro tweeted on Thursday. Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, then asked his…
Representative Steve King told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday that he is not a racist — but he wondered when terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” became something unsavory and wrong. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said. “Why did I sit…
In the aftermath of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, the argument over the source of danger to American Jews — the social justice left or the right’s white nationalist movement — is over. Right-wing anti-Semitism and white nationalism pose the single greatest threat to the safety of the American Jewish community. Our response…
In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh massacre, Jews all over the world sought to make sense of the horror that was the single greatest act of violence targeting Jews in the history of the United States of America. For some people, that meant expressions of solidarity. For some it meant turning to religion, engaging in…
The Wisconsin high school students who appeared to have posed in a Nazi salute may not be punished because of free speech, the school district said in response to the photo that caused outrage online. Baraboo School District Administrator Lori Mueller sent out a letter last week, explaining that the district finished part of its…
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