Steve King: How did white nationalist, supremacist language become offensive?

By Naomi Lim

Published January 10, 2019 6:57pm ET

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Steve King: How did white nationalist, supremacist language become offensive? — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wants to know how it became so controversial to talk about white nationalism and white supremacy. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King asked the New York Times in an interview published on Thursday. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the […]

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wants to know how it became so controversial to talk about white nationalism and white supremacy.

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King asked the New York Times in an interview published on Thursday. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”

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