‘You Asked A Stupid Question!’ Ramaswamy Goes OFF On Wapo Reporter Over Issue of White Supremacy
Fourth-place Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy had a hissy fit when a Washington Post reporter asked him to “condemn white supremacy and white nationalism.”
The confrontation took place at a Wednesday campaign event in Scott County, Iowa.
The reporter wanted to know Ramaswamy’s take on the subject now that he had been endorsed by disgraced former Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who was “repeatedly affiliated with white nationalism while in office.” King lost his House seat in 2020 after being “stripped of his committee assignments” over the issue.
Ramaswamy went into a long explanation after being asked, “Do you condemn white supremacy and white nationalism?”
Afterward, the reporter followed up with, “You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy, though.”
“I’m not going to recite some catechism for you,” Ramaswamy went off. He continued:
I’m against vicious racial discrimination in this country. I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism, which absolutely fits the test. I’m not going to bend the knee to your religion; I’m not going to ask you to bend to mine, and I’m not going to bend the knee to yours. But, do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I gonna play your silly game of gotcha? No, I’m not. And, frankly, this is why people have lost trust.
And I know you’re going to go print the headline tomorrow. I already know this, we already know how your game works. “Vivek Ramaswamy Refuses to Condemn Racism,” because you asked a stupid question. The reality is, I condemn vicious racism in this country, but the kind of vicious and systematic racism we see today is discrimination based on race on a very different direction.
Ramaswamy then gave his nebulous solution to racism in America.
“You want to know the best way to end discrimination based on race? Stop discriminating on the basis of race. Do that and we’re gonna move this country forward. I don’t care whether you’re Black or white or brown, or anything in between. That’s how we’re going to unite this country.”
Ramaswamy next blamed the media for dividing the country:
You people have been responsible for diving this country to a breaking point, creating a projection of national division. I meet people on the Southside of Chicago, to meetings like this one, of every shade of melanin, multiple, from man to woman, doesn’t make a difference, who are hungry for reviving unity in this country.
And you, with this catechism, trying to get just politicians to whatever fake headline you’re going to print based on this conversation tomorrow, that’s what’s dividing this country to a breaking point. Shame on you! Look people in the eye and tell people what you’ve failed to tell them for the last five years. Own the accountability for your own failures as the media. That’s how we rebuild trust in this country. And until then, I don’t have a lot of patience to play the games.
Ramaswamy’s rant was met with polite applause by the Iowa audience.
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