U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is facing yet another firestorm after remarks he just made have started to get attention. The Iowa Congressman suggested humankind might no longer exist if not for acts of rape and incest throughout millennia.
“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” King told the Westside Conservative Club Wednesday, as the Des Moines Register reports. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”
“Steve King” is currently the number two trending item on Twitter.
King, who has already been stripped of all committee assignments after other disturbing remarks he made led the House to vote 424-1 on a resolution condemning, among other ills, white supremacy, was defending his position of refusing to allow exceptions for rape and incest in an anti-abortion bill he had sponsored.
Just five days before the resolution passed nearly unanimously King had told The New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?”
That is just the tip of the iceberg for the white supremacist Congressman representing Iowa’s 4th District. Voters have returned King to the House of Representatives eight times since first electing him in 2002.
Up until his New York Times remarks, King was probably best known for attacking undocumented immigrants by saying: “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds – and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”
King has compared active U.S. Military service members who are transgender to eunuchs. In 2017 he predicted a race war between Hispanics and “the Blacks.” One year earlier he had asked what “sub-groups” of humans, besides white people, have contributed more to human civilization. And he opposed congress providing disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy because he said they might spend FEMA money on “Gucci bags and massage parlors,” which he claimed Hurricane Katrina victims did.
The list of King’s racist, bigoted, and hate-filled remarks is much longer than even these examples.