Steve King Doubles Down On Racist Tweet (VIDEO)

Steve King is begging white people to have more babies. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you about his racist tweets. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Where Donald Trump has employed subtext and dog whistles in the service of his anti-immigration agenda, Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa doesn’t bother with such subtleties. Last summer, on live TV, he claimed that white people have contributed more to civilization than any other “sub-group” of people and said it is not “objectively true” that every culture is equal. Before that, he was perhaps best known for his flawed argument that for every DREAMer “who’s a valedictorian,” there are 100 undocumented immigrants with “calves the size of cantaloupes” from smuggling marijuana across the border. On Sunday, King went further, tweeting a cartoon praising the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a fierce anti-immigrant and anti-Islam critic, and writing a message below: “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Critics immediately seized on the post as an apparent endorsement of white nationalism, but King doubled down in an interview with CNN Monday morning, telling host Chris Cuomo, “Of course I meant exactly what I said.”

King didn’t seem to understand why Cuomo, and half the Internet, was apoplectic. “I have said the same thing as far as 10 years ago to the German people and to any population of people that is a declining population that isn’t willing to have enough babies to reproduce themselves,” King [said]. “And I have said to them, ‘You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies, you have to keep your birth rate up and teach your children your values, and in doing so then you can grow your population, you can strengthen your culture, you can strengthen your way of life.’”

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