When Studying ‘Western Civilization’ Was Code Words for White Supremacy
Iowa’s now former Republican congressman Steve King received a lot of criticism, even among his fellow GOP party members for conflating Western culture and civilization with white supremacy and white nationalism. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he asked a reporter for The New York Ti…
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