Posted on 12/08/2017 2:50:22 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said that diversity is no America's strength in a pair of tweets Friday.
King linked to an article by the Voice of Europe Friday that quoted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying that cultures shouldn’t be mixed, arguing that it’s “against common sense.”
King tweeted the story with the message, “Diversity is not our strength.”
“Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left. Assimilation, not diversity, is our American strength,” he tweeted.
King, one of the most vocal critics of immigration in Congress, has made controversial statements in the past, including praise for far-right European politician Geert Wilders.
He tweeted a cartoon of Wilders plugging a hole in a wall that read “Western civilization” in March.
“Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” King wrote at the time.
The lawmaker has also defended former Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court for refusing to halt his immigration patrols but later pardoned by President Trump. King said that he doesn’t agree that “profiling is wrong.”
His tweets Friday come as lawmakers are struggling with how to extend protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Trump has set to end in March.
Democrats are demanding that Congress pass a fix for “Dreamers” before the end of the year and have pushed for it to be included in a year-end government spending bill.
Trump made stronger immigration policies a cornerstone of his campaign, promising to build a wall on the Mexican border and railing against sanctuary cities, and has continued to advocate for those positions during his administration
Diversity + Proximity = Intentionally forced Conflict
BTW, Geert Wilders is pronounced hairt vilders.
There is no far left because the center has been pushed so far to the left, there’s no room for a far left.
Thus all public schools should be replaced with private ones.
Well said, Mr. King. Bet the sales of smelling salts doubled after that one.
I’d like to see many more conservatives follow President Trump’s example and kick over a few more fire ant mounds.
What's controversial about that?
Diversity is, historically, one of the worst things possible, leading always to alienation, crime, and war.
What kind of a moron would believe it could be GOOD?
All public schools would have to be completely controlled locally by the parents only. No interference from the State—as Socrates stated, the State will make slaves of anyone they have the power to “educate”.
Parents only on the board and they would hire and fire any teachers based on merit and worldview. Atheists need not apply since their worldview is antithetical to the Constitution and Natural Rights from God only-—never the State. Parents have the NATURAL RIGHT to hire people who do NOT warp the worldview of their own children. Frankly, I would homeschool with a group of like-minded parents. it would be the best way.
If they didn’t like the teachers—they would be fired—like they used to take pitch forks to the bad teachers in the 19th century. Textbooks would be thrown out for the original sourced books, like the Federalist papers, etc.. Letters of Thomas Jefferson, etc., so they get the genius that he was and not the biased lies that Common Core forces on young children. The warped Marxist lens to demonize and tear down all Founders and Columbus when they had so many virtues—more so than any one else in their era. Jefferson as a young lawyer in the colony of Virginia tried to get slavery banned from his colony but his bill was defeated. He would have been a felon if he tried to free his slaves which he inherited since the draconian laws forbade it.
We have to go back to Classical Education only-—back to Rhetoric and all the tools (memorization) which exercised the brain and creates individual “thinkers” in the mode of Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin.
Franklin spent FOUR years in “schools”—and probably only 3 hours five days a week if even that. He was a genius. Lincoln went to “school” for less than a few months. Education comes from within-—you can’t force education on anyone. Teachers can light the desire or kill it so they are important. Jefferson was tutored (the best way—with small groups of children, or by himself, so it is individualized and a child will never get bored of “learning” since they can go at their own pace. They aren’t dehumanized-—they aren’t bored which embeds hatred of learning.
It is better to simply end public schools and send students to private schools instead.
All Irish in my family. No half this or one quarter that. Irish. Great. Good. Glad they caught the boat. I was bought up from my grandparents to my parents to be an AMERICAN and that’s what I am. Not “Irish-American’’, AMERICAN!
Well said.
Near the end I couldn't take any more so i commented that God made us all as individuals and we didn't have to do anything but be ourselves to be individuals - those going through all sorts of gyrations to "prove their individualism" were just a diverse band of sheep acting out of character to prove something they obviously didn't understand.
He stood there with his mouth half open and couldn't think of anything to say - 3/4 of the class applauded and I was shocked to come out with an A and keep my 4.0 GPA.
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