Steve King Recently Said ‘Diversity Is Not Our Strength’
Samantha Bee isn’t putting up with Republicans’ hypocritical tweets “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on what President Trump called a national day of “civic work and community service” to “honor of Dr. King’s extraordinary life.” (President Trump has spent the day golfing.)
The most blatant hypocrisy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day came from Republican U.S. Congressman Steve King of Iowa, a racist and a white nationalist. He’s probably best known for his offensive insistence that most high school undocumented immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from all the drugs they run.Â
In 2016 King insisted that during the protests in Ferguson, all the protestors “appear to be of a single, you know, of a single origin, I should say, a continental origin.” In other words, he was suggesting they were all African-American, which was clearly false.
King also claimed no other “sub groups” have contributed more to civilization than white people. Again, false.Â
Rep. King warned that Hurricane Sandy victims would spend money they may receive from FEMA on “Gucci bags and massage parlors,” which he suggested Hurricane Katrina victims did.
The Iowa Congressman’s offensive remarks are not limited to racism. His anti-gay, anti-transgender remarks are extraordinarily outrageous as well.
He’s compared active duty U.S. service members who are transgender to eunuchs. He’s claimed gay people want “special rights for self-professed behavior.” And he’s claimed gay people are “condemned to hell” and added that none have ever made it to heaven in the past 2000 years.
For some reason Iowans keep electing Congressman King.
On Martin Luther King Day, despite having embraced and amplified policies and beliefs that go directly against the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Congressman King offered up this tweet:
Political commentator and comedian Samantha Bee wasn’t having any of it. She blasted King, reming him of his recent offensive remarks:
Indeed, Rep. King had said those words, on Twitter:
Last year, King praised Dutch white nationalist lawmaker Geert Wilders in this tweet:
King has never apologized for any of his racist or anti-LGBT remarks, nor has any GOP leader denounced them. King has never had to pay for them at the polls.
Bee also brilliantly called out the hypocrisy of other top Republicans today:
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