Thursday, March 28, 2024

Steve King Clarifies Claim that White People Have Done More for Civilization Than ‘Subgroups’

Rep. Steve King
Rep. Steve King

*Rep. Steve King, who set social media aflame over his comment about “white people” doing more for civilization than any other “subgroup,” is now claiming that he was actually referring to “Western civilization” when referring to “white people.”

The Iowa Republican had said Monday on an MSNBC panel, “This whole white people business, though, does get a little tired. … I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about. Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”

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He doubled down on his comments Monday night in an interview with ABC News, but claimed he meant to refer to “Western civilization” as the “superior culture” when he said “the whole white peoples business” line.

“It’s pretty close [to what I said]. What I really said was ‘Western civilization’ and when you describe Western civilization that can mean much of Western civilization happens to be Caucasians. But we should not apologize for our culture or our civilization,” King told ABC News.

“The contributions that were made by Western civilization itself, and by Americans, by Americans of all races stand far above the rest of the world. The Western civilization and the American civilization are a superior culture.”

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