GOP Congressman Steve King Says Germans Shouldn't Have To Apologize For The Holocaust Anymore
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GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit
After going on trip to Poland funded by education group, Steve King meets with Freedom Party, says Germans shouldn’t have to apologize for Holocaust anymore
"...King suggests that Austria and Germany have done enough to atone for the Holocaust and should take pride in their history.
“So I suggest: Bring pride back to Austria! And bring pride back in to Germany again,” King said. “I came to Germany about 15 years ago, and a lot of conversations started with the words ‘I am German, therefore I apologize.’ I took note the first time I heard this from an individual. But after I heard this 10, 12 times, then I knew: It’s the culture.
“When I interviewed Poles, especially the Jewish Poles that are left, and there are not very many of them, their level of resentment is so deep that they think any time a German opens his mouth he should apologize first. And I think you can’t pass the sins of the fathers on to the succeeding generations. They need to know their history, they need to be aware of it, but that’s not their sins. They were not yet born.”"
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What does Stephen Miller think?
I wonder if King is even dimly aware that many Germans and Austrians recognize that both he and Trump are fascists and racists with a strong impulse for authoritarianism?
The funny part is that King can't even pretend not to be a racist for a few days. In one of his interviews in Austria he really let his full Nazi freak flag fly, and he recently endorsed a white supremacist running for the mayor of Toronto.
I've always thought this guy was coo-coo. I just can't believe anyone takes him seriously.
If this is really a thing, then I agree that they probably don't need to be doing that. Any people or country can look into their past and find things they wouldn't approve of today. Hopefully we learn from the mistakes of our ancestors.
King is the one to apologize. And so should the voters that allow him to exist on the taxpayer's dime.
German apologies are over. The Germans have strived to stay away from that path. Unfortunately, conservatism has permitted the rise of right wing authoritarian thought to exist and even prosper within its umbrella. This phenomenon is gaining traction all over the world, even in the American Hemisphere. And I honestly believe the roots are from the Russian Oligarchy.
Steven King is an unworthy legislator and an unworthy American.
Bingo.