so, about that white supremacist Steve King tweet

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Anonymous wrote:I got $5 says if it was a rack of blonde-haired blue-eyed Muslims coming here by the boatload nobody would give a shit.

A bunch of Syrians are blonde and blue-eyed, and we don't let them in.

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Anonymous wrote:I got $5 says if it was a rack of blonde-haired blue-eyed Muslims coming here by the boatload nobody would give a shit.

A bunch of Syrians are blonde and blue-eyed, and we don't let them in.

Funny...I never see blonde-haired blue-eyed folks getting pulled aside by TSA at airports or blonde-haired blue-eyed folks getting rounded up by ICE authorities. Must be a glitch in the vetting process.

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Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

? Most Americans are "foreigners" in one way shape or form.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

DP... white man may have done so, but the country was built by foreigners from all over the world, some came willingly, others were forced.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

DP... white man may have done so, but the country was built by foreigners from all over the world, some came willingly, others were forced.

Agreed. And if they are here they can stay. That doesn't mean we need to open the flood gates to everybody else.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

DP... white man may have done so, but the country was built by foreigners from all over the world, some came willingly, others were forced.

Agreed. And if they are here they can stay. That doesn't mean we need to open the flood gates to everybody else.

Another DP...so it was ok for your ancestors to come and make a life here, but now that you have yours, you selfishly tell everyone else to fuck off? That isn't an American value. Sorry.

#notsorry

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I hope Iowans don't support this crap.

I grew up in that area and was there when he was elected. I am so very ashamed that he represents people from Iowa. On the other hand, that kind of naivete (lack of exposure to other cultures, ways) is 100% standard in western Iowa. I grew up in the 80's but it was like I grew up in the 50's (really). It's a pretty closed society. You don't stray far from what is expected.

How is it that people who have never been exposed to diversity are so scared of it? I grew up in a pretty all white setting (semi rural California in the 70s - farmworkers were pretty segregated). But every little hint of a bigger world out there was fascinating to me, not threatening.

White woman, raised in Iowa (jr. high and high school), graduate of ISU, married to a brown Muslim, proud mother of mixed children. Doing my best to make Iowa homogenous, one brown baby at a time.

Haha! That's what I was thinking. We can achieve a mixed race homogeneous America. Wish the interviewer had pressed King on that. ?

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

DP... white man may have done so, but the country was built by foreigners from all over the world, some came willingly, others were forced.

Agreed. And if they are here they can stay. That doesn't mean we need to open the flood gates to everybody else.

Have you actually looked up any numbers or is this just your "gut" feeling? And please tell me when your ancestors came to the US? Was it before 1924?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love some feedback from white people who don't feel enraged by this. I just don't get why white people aren't condemning this en masse.

Because they don't care.

The ones who do speak up.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts but will say one thing that is even worse than King's racist comments is the complete absence of a strong condemnation from party leadership. Crickets. These people are without integrity or morality. SHAME.

I agree with King 100%. We can't just give our nation away to foreigners.

Are you a native American? Everyone else is a "foreigner".

Nope. We conquered the land from the natives. That's how it works. If ISIS or Mexico wants to invade and give it a try, have at it.

DP... white man may have done so, but the country was built by foreigners from all over the world, some came willingly, others were forced.

Agreed. And if they are here they can stay. That doesn't mean we need to open the flood gates to everybody else.

Another DP...so it was ok for your ancestors to come and make a life here, but now that you have yours, you selfishly tell everyone else to fuck off? That isn't an American value. Sorry.

#notsorry

It's a human value. It's a natural value. I take something and make it mine, then I defend it against others that want to take it. I'm perfectly proud to share that point of view and I find your point of view to be suicidal.

We gain nothing by admitting poor immigrants who don't share our values. If there is something we need, like an immigrant with specialized training, then we should admit them.