"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland"

reinaert · Friday at 8:03 PM

"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland

"...“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’...”

A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.

slate.com

Do you agree?

SNOWFLAKE · Friday at 8:18 PM

Anyone surprised?

Ask our White Nationalists if they agree with Schmitt.

On the other hand, no point in asking them, they will deny it.

Loulit01 · Friday at 8:20 PM

Imagine this happening when Obama was president.

BirdinHand · Friday at 8:24 PM

There likely are quite a few individuals that believe this

You see glimpses of it everywhere - especially in highly nationalistic types. And within the radical Christian population also.

Lycanthrope · Friday at 8:24 PM

MAGAs love them a sour cream Murica, and Trumplicans will sell their brains, balls, and souls to give it to them.

tshade · Friday at 8:26 PM

AHHHHHH----the classic Trumper.

Luce · Friday at 8:32 PM

I am waiting for MAGAs to condemn this.

I am not holding my breath.

reinaert · Friday at 8:33 PM

For those who might get walled by the original. It's a yahoo grab of The New Republic:

GOP Senator Draws Outrage After Speech on Who America “Belongs To”

Republican Senator Erich Schmitt is openly embracing white nationalism.

www.yahoo.com

lwf · Friday at 8:33 PM

This is what "conservatism" is in the MAGA era. White supremacy.

Lycanthrope · Friday at 8:34 PM

Luce said:
I am waiting for MAGAs to condemn this.

I am not holding my breath.

Ain't gonna happen.

**** Taco, **** the emasculated cucks in his administration, and **** the MAGA clowns who make endless excuses for Taco's stupidity, corruption, and overall shit stain character.

Peter · Friday at 8:36 PM

reinaert said:
"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland
"...“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’...”

A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.

slate.com

Do you agree?

In any sane time anyone who said shit like this would be forced to resign in disgrace.

We don't live in sensible times.

Jezcoe · Friday at 8:44 PM

Here is the whole speech.

Sen. Schmitt at NatCon : What Is an American?

America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

www.dailysignal.com

It is standard Trumpian populism peppered with nativist clap trap and mild fascism.

reflechissez · Friday at 8:51 PM

reinaert said:
"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland
"...“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’...”

A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.

slate.com

Do you agree?

Damn

Brusan · Friday at 8:58 PM

Why all the shock?

Is anyone surprised that electing that azzhole to the Whitehouse has empowered these racist knuckle draggers like never before?

reinaert · Friday at 9:02 PM

Jezcoe said:
Here is the whole speech.

Sen. Schmitt at NatCon : What Is an American?

America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

www.dailysignal.com

It is standard Trumpian populism peppered with nativist clap trap and mild fascism.

Much obliged.

Lycanthrope · Friday at 9:03 PM

Jezcoe said:
Here is the whole speech.

Sen. Schmitt at NatCon : What Is an American?

America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

www.dailysignal.com

It is standard Trumpian populism peppered with nativist clap trap and mild fascism.

That speech was a straight up National Socialist revival.

Gatsby · Friday at 9:03 PM

reinaert said:
"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland
"...“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’...”

A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.

slate.com

Do you agree?

I'm a little concerned by the way the part in red is quoted...did Schmitt *actually* say white Europeans or is this an uncharitable paraphrase? I didn't see the speech.

Lycanthrope · Friday at 9:04 PM

Gatsby said:
I'm a little concerned by the way the part in red is quoted...did Schmitt *actually* say white Europeans or is this an uncharitable paraphrase? I didn't see the speech.

Post #12, @Jezcoe linked the speech in its entirety.

Integrityrespec · Friday at 9:05 PM

SNOWFLAKE said:
Anyone surprised?

Ask our White Nationalists if they agree with Schmitt.

On the other hand, no point in asking them, they will deny it.

Nobody is surprised that Slate approached the reporting with a strong left leaning perspective.

reinaert · Friday at 9:06 PM

Peter said:
In any sane time anyone who said shit like this would be forced to resign in disgrace.

We don't live in sensible times.

To be fair, there are Americans alive who lived under Jim Crow; and Wallace and Thurmond ran on this sort of thing.

What makes it so shocking is the hard-won consensus that this was wrong collapsed literally overnight because a mobbed up grifting rapist said it should.

reinaert · Friday at 9:07 PM

Integrityrespec said:
Nobody is surprised that Slate approached the reporting with a strong left leaning perspective.

You complain that Slate made it leftist more please. I like that you pair the opposite that the right is white nationalist.

reinaert · Friday at 9:12 PM

Gatsby said:
I'm a little concerned by the way the part in red is quoted...did Schmitt *actually* say white Europeans or is this an uncharitable paraphrase? I didn't see the speech.

He spells it out pretty plainly when he lists only Christian Europeans who created and can claim Americanness.

And the Senator hires known Nazi memers:

Sen. Eric Schmitt lets his extremist flag fly in racist speech at NatCon

The Missouri senator suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”

www.msnbc.com

Lycanthrope · Friday at 9:14 PM

reinaert said:
He spells it out pretty plainly when he lists only Christian Europeans who created and can claim Americanness.

And the Senator hires known Nazi memers:

Sen. Eric Schmitt lets his extremist flag fly in racist speech at NatCon

The Missouri senator suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”

www.msnbc.com

Schmitt is a wannabe goosestepping piece of shit.

"BUH BUH BUH BIDEN!!!"

reinaert · Friday at 9:15 PM

Lycanthrope said:
Schmitt is a wannabe goosestepping piece of shit.

"BUH BUH BUH BIDEN!!!"

Here is the fulcrum around which he pivots:

"When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our history, and insult our traditions, they’re attacking our future as well as our past. By changing the stories we tell about ourselves, they believe they can build a new America—with the new myths of a new people.

But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist."

Lycanthrope · Friday at 9:19 PM

reinaert said:
Here is the fulcrum around which he pivots:

"When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our history, and insult our traditions, they’re attacking our future as well as our past. By changing the stories we tell about ourselves, they believe they can build a new America—with the new myths of a new people.

But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist."

How the **** does any American or Christian endorse this insanity?

"A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland"

Mono no aware