CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), that massive knob of white supremacy combined with super-stupidity, is at it again, this time tweeting about the badness of “someone else’s babies”, by which of course, he means any non-white babies. I’ll be going between two articles here, one from Raw Story [RS], and one from Think Progress [TP].
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has long been a friend to the European far right.
He’s hobnobbed with the leaders of hardline anti-immigrant parties across Western and Central Europe. He’s touted his “friendship” with Norbert Hofer, the 2016 Austrian presidential candidate for the Freedom Party, which was founded in 1956 by a former Nazi officer. And he’s made no secret of his support for French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, leader of the nativist party National Front.
After meeting with Geert Wilders and Frauke Petry — anti-immigrant demagogues from the Netherlands and Germany, respectively — in September 2016, King even tweeted a photo with the aphorism, “Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end.”
@FraukePetry Wishing you successful vote. Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end. @geertwilderspvv pic.twitter.com/Kp6uieaMDG
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 18, 2016
@FraukePetry Wishing you successful vote. Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end. @geertwilderspvv 18/9/16.
But on Sunday of this week, King embraced language that is incendiary even by his corroded standards. In a tweet once again supporting Wilders — who is in the final days of his latest bid to become prime minister of the Netherlands — King said: “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
The tweet also quoted from “Voice of Europe,” an “Anti EU / Pro Europe / MAGA” account that frequently promulgates messages deriding Muslim immigration and endorsing far-right European leaders such as Wilders.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. [TP]
Rep. Ted Lieu shot right back:
Dear Representative Steve King: These are my two babies. –Representative Ted Lieu pic.twitter.com/MHU21jJUrY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 12, 2017
Dear Representative Steve King: These are my two babies. –Representative Ted Lieu. 12/3/17.
After King posted the tweet — and former KKK leader David Duke retweeted it — Twitter moved in to mock, deride and chastise the congressman for spreading propaganda from one of Europe’s most virulently racist public figures. [RS]
You can read much more at Think Progress and Raw Story.
Aaaaaand, we have an update, in the water is wet and Steve King is still a white supremacist knob category! He has now defended his Nazism on television:
Asked by New Day host Chris Cuomo to defend the comments on Monday, King doubled down on his view that “western civilization” must be defended. Pressed on whether he believes “a Muslim American, an Italian American, Jewish American, [are] all equal, all the same thing,” King hesitated.
“They contribute differently to our culture and civilization.” the Iowa Republican responded. “Individuals will contribute differently, not equally to this civilization and society. Certain groups of people will do more from a productive side than other groups of people will.”
Barbarians do like to rattle on about civilization, don’t they?
I hate having to deal with shit stains. I would normally wash such a stain out using a touch of bleach. But that would make America just a little bit whiter, which seems wrong. No matter how much I would like to lead a sustainable life, sometimes you need to give up and just bury a pair of underwear with too large of a shit stain.
There’s always dye. Black covers most anything. ;)
Let’s just remember that Wilders is in fact not a “white baby”. But funny how easily fascism and peroxide will cover up your Asian heritage.
What did I say? So much of this can be traced back to the anger about women deciding for themselves whom to fuck and if and with whom they reproduce.
Some idiot “housewife with a purpose” (Twitter handle) subsequently issued a “white baby challenge”. She already had produced six!
I can only say “poor children”. My kids happen to be white (I even managed a blond blue eyed one) but ffs, they were not made to boost the number of white people on this planet. They do not have a “purpose” beyond whatever they do with their lives.
I know it is not cool, but DAMN, Petry has a big head. I kept comparing that photo in my mind with one of those big Mardi Gras paper mache heads. It creeps me out.
Johnson catman @ 5:
That’s Geert Wilders, Petry is the woman. You aren’t the only one to remark on it. Geert has a caricature size head, to be sure.
My apologies! I should have read more carefully. Her head looks positively TINY compared to his potato.
If white women having white babies is so important, is he considering financial support for the effort?
Chigau:
Hmmm. I’d take the money and commit to practicing.
Caine
I think the payment scheme would depend on production.
Like in The Handmaid’s Tale.
On another note, I wonder if King considers the lobby of the Trump Tower to be a good example of Western Civilization.
Ya kiddin’, right? If sluts don’t want babies they need to keep their legs closed. Why should men pay for it?
Chigau:
:falls over laughing:
Good point, Steve.
Can we see how white people contribute to mass shootings?
I’m pretty sure that our Scottish-German-English-Irish-Huguenot-Asturian-Basque (and probably a bit Moorish) atheist kids have already contributed more to world civilization than Steve King.
Which is not saying much. I mean, any aborted fetus has a greater net contribution to civilization than Grand Wizard King.
To be completely fair, he’s absolutely correct. In general, in my community, the Middle Eastern immigrants along with hispanic (of all types) and people of African descent contribute a hell of a lot to the community. The fundamentalist christians “contribute” by trying to take rights away from others. So, I say we keep the Muslims, the brown people, and deport some of the white people. It doesn’t really matter where as long as they can’t hurt anyone there.
NPR was covering Geert Wilders this morning in full normalization mode, not realizing that they’re repeating history in just a span of four months. They were talking about his supporters’ xenophobic obsessions and anti-Muslim genocidal hate, just calling them “concerns”. Like a few seconds later they’d use the same word to describe an oppressed communities need for clean water or something. I was so fucking angry I had to turn it off.
Privileged assholes will always let you down.
Saad:
Jesus fuck. I know I repeat myself about normalisation on Affinity, I about never shut up about it, but that’s why! Nothing currently terrifies me more than that, even with the incredible amount of scary, worrisome stuff going on right now. Because as soon as it’s all normalised, we are fucking doomed. People will become numb, and there will be a tiny knot of furious people, trying to fight, standing all alone in a crowd of normalised zombies.
Wilders is absolutely horrifyingly right about one thing, and that’s when he says what he’s doing is part of a global movement. I can see a coalition of the United States with newly elected far-right European governments starting the next world war.
Oh yes. It’s going on all over -- LePen has a very good shot at France, and there are rumblings all over the damn world. And yes, it will end up with war, this shit always does, and that’s the one we won’t survive. And still, you can’t get people to wake the fuck up, and stop normalising all this garbage.