GOP Congressman Spews Racist Screed on Fall of “Western Civilization”
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Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy may have stirred up disunity in the GOP earlier this year with his threats to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but he’s in lockstep with the rest of his party on one thing: Democrats want to “end Western civilization” with open borders.
In an interview with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner on Tuesday, Roy was asked about the Senate’s passage of a $95 billion foreign aid package, which dedicates assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
The Freedom Caucus member accused Democrats of not “[having] any interest in sitting down at the table” to discuss border security—less than a week after Republicans killed a bipartisan bill that included border funding alongside the foreign aid package, at the urging of Donald Trump.
Roy went on to baselessly claim that Democrats, who he snidely called “colonizers,” “want to flood the zone” with “the chaos created by wide-open borders.”
“It’s not just political,” said Roy. “They want to remake America. They want to end Western civilization.”
Roy also complained about the number of “foreign-born” people in the United States.
The demographic conspiracy espoused by Roy, a variant of the explicitly white supremacist “great replacement theory,” is becoming an increasingly popular talking point in the GOP. What was once confined to the hinterlands of white nationalist message boards has been adopted whole cloth by the Republican mainstream and is now repeated by lawmakers like Roy on television.
Roy also took the opportunity to take a potshot at same-sex marriage, accusing Democrats of “trying to force their beliefs” on “countries in Africa who dare to say that marriage is between one man and one woman.”
Roy’s was not the only mention of the threat to Western civilization by the global right this week; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his own Fox News interview , called the bombardment of Rafah part of a “battle of the forces of civilization against the worst forces of barbarism on the planet.”
Roy’s and Netanyahu’s comments are emblematic of a global right obsessed with conspiratorial ideations of civilizational decline and collapse. For Fox, it makes for a good segment.
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Does this mean that Mexico and Central America are not part of "western civilization "?
Or is Roy's version of western civilization something else?
For the slow, white European heritage.
You must think them slow if you had the qualifier white, to European heritage.
Parts of the Western Hemisphere were civilized long before the white European continent was
t’s not just political,” said Roy. “They want to remake America.
How racist! It's not like Democrats explicitly say they want to fundamentally transform America.
They were not talking about race and you know it.
They are always talking about race and you know it.
democrats are always talking about race.
The open southern border and record setting influx of illegal immigrants from all over the world states otherwise.
I will remind you of this next time Democrats start talking about amnesty; or trying to federalize election laws where the number of people- not voters- will be the only thing that matters.
Ethnicity and race have been Dem clubs for decades some might say centuries in big city political machines, but slowly they are losing their monopoly over minority groups.
They might be following white blue collar workers in their political preferences.
Prove it.
Turn on MSNBC. If they are not talking about Trump they are talking about race. They even employ rev racebaiter.
Never heard of this Chip Roy guy but I do agree that there is an effort to destroy Western civilization. I don't think it has a damned thing to do with race though, even though Chip Roy may think so. And I don't mean just here. Europe as well. To my mind, it is the Left of the world that tries to associate Western civilization with skin color. Western civilization (or any other) is defined by art, literature, culture, and enduring ideas of that culture. Mores and values and such.
Are there no more operas? No more art museums? No more libraries? No more clergy or philosophers ? No more books about Aristotle and Plato?
it is not a question of whether those things exist. It is a question of what they are based on. What sort of mores and values do they contain. Who and what we are as human beings and where we should be heading. How we should treat others.
Using the cold war era, for example, what you would find in a library would be very different in a western bloc library than an eastern bloc country. In the west you'd find more books on the idea that government exists to maximize individual freedom whereas in east you'd find more books that say the purpose of the individual is to serve the state and its goals. In a western country you will find greater freedom of religion whereas in an eastern you may not be allowed to practice at all or only be allowed a state controlled religion.
Pretty much everything Western civilization is based on is under attack for the purpose of moving western civilization to a more or outright socialist base. I don't want to hand my freedom over to an elite few who I will not agree with. I don't want my mores and values dictated to me by central planning. I don't want someone who doesn't share my values telling me what church I am allowed to attend. The left is being driven by the extreme Left and that is where they are taking us. No thank you.
Whether one agrees with some of your analysis or not, the term "Western civilization" can be used and is used by some as a stand in for "white".
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Could that because most of the Western civilization lived in geography populated by white people?
I've noticed that many on the Left also use "white" as a stand in for "racist" as well.
It wasn't taunting. It was a fucking commentary on his oft used tired assed racist reference bullshit. Oh forgot. I sit on the wrong side of the aisle to be able to post a yawn emoji.
When Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks for help from the "West", he isn't addressing Guatemala, Honduras or Venezuela.
Funny. The very first NA's were foreign born and migrated from another continent according to history.
In the beginning, we were all Africans.
It’s been that way since the beginning of time, if you lack the strength, courage or technology to defend your land, somebody will take it from you.
In the beginning we were all amoebas. So what?
By definition the very first NA's entered a continent that was devoid of human life. "Foreign born" is inapplicable in that situation.
Foreign born" is inapplicable in that situation.
of course they were foreign born. If your moved to a deserted island tomorrow youd still be foreign born
That is what most of history is about.
All humans share a relatively recent common ancestry. Around 170,000 years ago, somewhere in what is now Ethiopia or the Sudan is where modern humans originated. From there we have migrated around the world. I'm surprised that you don't find that interesting.
They were still foreign born SMH