Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has always been a racist. His most prominent opinions on race have always been based in the political discussion of immigration, and they have always been “white nationalist.” He’s been pretty openly a white supremacist racist for years, but recently, with the actual words “white supremacist” being used by the traditional media, after they’d criminally tip-toed around it for years, King’s being noticed as a white supremacist in circles outside of the Left. Now, finally, some companies are deciding to pull their support of the man who has said that the breeding of bird dogs is a good way to think about immigration policy. Popular Information reports that billion-dollar tech company Intel has sent out an internal email explaining that it will no longer give money to King.
But in an internal October 25 email obtained by Popular Information, Intel's Director of Policy and External Partnerships, Dawn Jones, said that Intel was ending its financial support. After reviewing King's public statements, Jones wrote, the company determined they "conflict with Intel values" and "we are no longer donating to his campaigns."
According to Popular Information, during this year’s campaign for re-election against Democrat J.D. Scholten, King has received donations from other big-name companies such as AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway, the American Bankers Association, and Land O’Lakes.
Last week, Sludge’s Alex Kotch reported on and requested responses from many of the companies funding this white supremacist and received a single response, from Berkshire Hathaway.
“Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s company-affiliated political action committee has donated to Rep. King’s re-election campaign in recognition of shared renewable energy policy goals, which help protect the environment and advance a sustainable energy future for our customers,” said Jessi Strawn, director of corporate communications at Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which is based in De[s] Moines, Iowa and operates MidAmerican Energy Company, an Iowa utility. “We do not always agree with every position taken by the candidates we support.”
Here’s an unrelated explanation of Hitler and American industrialist and innovator Henry Ford, as told by professor and American Jewish history scholar Hasia Diner:
And Hitler was very much inspired by Ford's writing. And the idea that this could happen in the United States, I think, was very important to Hitler as well, because as people in the United States were speaking out against Nazism and were using a kind of rhetoric, "Well, it could never happen here," and "We are the bastions of democracy," I think Hitler would have derived a degree of satisfaction to be able to point to Ford as, in a way, just as good an anti-Semite as he was.
You don’t need to agree on everything with a Nazi to be a Nazi sympathizer. The problem is, the dehumanization of entire races of people makes it irrelevant whether or not one might agree with Steve King about an unregulated banking market.
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