Twitter Rips Steve King For Tweet Warning Against ‘Mixing Cultures’: ‘You Mentally Stunted Simian’

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is at it again.

The Iowa Congressman — who long ago should have learned to never, ever tweet — is under fire for this social media dispatch on Friday:

Diversity is not our strength. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, “Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one.” https://t.co/ZlMXzcc87w

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) December 8, 2017

Twitter absolutely slammed King for the remark, and for quoting Hungary’s hardline leader. Here’s a sampling of the reaction:

Iowa congressman once again veers toward explicit white nationalism, then retreats and says it’s about assimilation. pic.twitter.com/snOjnXGUcy

— Matt Pearce ? (@mattdpearce) December 8, 2017

As the beady eyed slack jawed spawn of whatever has polluted your gene pool, you are Exhibit A why a family tree should fork and culture should be a bouillabaisse of the best of all people, you mentally stunted simian.

— Dane (@SeeDaneRun) December 8, 2017

How are you employed, much less as a member of Congress?

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 8, 2017

STEVE KING, FOLKS. pic.twitter.com/PC8E9bQVJf

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) December 8, 2017

David Duke and now Rep. Steve King have tweeted that “diversity is not our strength.” pic.twitter.com/M5i5DWOnyP

— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) December 8, 2017

A reminder that Steve King’s opponent for reelection dropped out in June due to death threats. https://t.co/Nl0PRpnifQhttps://t.co/I7V3sdS0oF

— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) December 8, 2017

Just a reminder that Viktor Orban is, explicitly and in his own words, opposed to liberal democracy https://t.co/kMUO5TyHMv

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) December 8, 2017

Other members of the Republican party have called Orban a “neo-fascist dictator” https://t.co/5CHKCwtTrr

Steve King offers this… https://t.co/BfaZmuw3Mg

— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) December 8, 2017

Congressman Steve King is really on (white supremacist) one this morning pic.twitter.com/BXcDWMzfmJ

— katherine krueger (@kath_krueger) December 8, 2017

Hi @SteveKingIA : this is an entirely serious offer. Come to #Oakland. Beers and tacos on me. Tell me, to my face, human to human, why diversity is bad. Thanks!

— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) December 8, 2017

Someone should break it to Steve King that he wouldn’t be around to say this ignorant shit if not for the diversity of America. https://t.co/6OgaTxPBMB

— Josh Moon (@Josh_Moon) December 8, 2017

White Supremacist’ @SteveKingIA is quoting Europe’s new dictator. A “far right”-Russia sympathizer leader who called for the building of “work camps” for immigrants, attacks the free press and is against democracy. The Current state of the GOP! https://t.co/pYhQQR7gOr

— Jorge_Silva (@Jorge_Silva) December 8, 2017

Go fuck yourself, Steve.

— Alexandra Halaby (@iskandrah) December 8, 2017

Steve King should grow a pair of fucking balls and start acknowledging openly that what he wants for America is to be an authoritarian ethno-state https://t.co/UG8JKurEzS

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 8, 2017

The problem with a lack of diversity, Congressman, is that it tends to lead to in-breeding of the sort that creates monstrous dimwits like you. https://t.co/IZBVdHAs47

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 8, 2017

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