Iowa congressman Steve King Steve King of Iowa loves his "sub-group" of people. Here's what he said on a televised panel on MSNBC:
“This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. 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?”
“Than white people?” Mr. Hayes asked.
Mr. King responded: “Than Western civilization itself that’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”
Even if King's proudly ignorant statement was true, which it most assuredly is not, the fact remains that King himself hasn't invented anything, other than fabulist history. To be proud of someone else's invention because you have the same color skin as them is just about the stupidest thing a human being could think. It's unfortunate that this nincompoop has enough admirers to vote him into office.
Quartz put together a list of things not invented by white people. I wonder if Rep King sullies his hands by touching any of them?
- numerals
- mathematics
- religion
- Christianity
- irrigation
- novels
- paper
- ink
- dance
- music
- gunpowder
- guns
- bombs
- time bombs
- the seismograph
- the compass
- just-in-time manufacturing
- CD players
- MP3 players
- Pokemon
- calculators
- karaoke
- lithium ion batteries
- yoga
- martial arts
- silk
- umbrellas
- tea
- noodles
- instant noodles
- shampoo
- punk futurism
- futures markets
