How do you follow up questioning why white nationalism is all of a sudden a bad thing? By extolling the virtues of rape and incest as population builders of course.
If You’re a Conservative: At this point, you have traded veiled racism for overt racism, essentially accepted the NRA as supreme commander, and decided that pissing on the Geneva Conventions is just another great way to rile up the snowflakes, so this shouldn’t bother you much at all.
If You’re a Liberal: This is the inverse of “if you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention.” If you are outraged, you’re not paying attention. I think liberals got used to viewing the Republican party as that dickhead-but-kinda-hot bro that didn’t think the right way but you would like to have next to you during a robbery. Nah, these Republicans are more like the dickhead-but-kinda-hot bro who fucks the severed heads in his freezer. And the most fucked up part is that they are doing it simply to create distractions. They say things they know will eat up the news cycles at the right time. Like say when the Trump admin is essentially removing federal judges from the entire immigration and nationalization process when you are already running torture camps. But I guess a guy saying we wouldn’t be here without rape and incest is bait too stinky to pass up.
For Everyone Else: King’s comments were in defense of multiple abortion bills throughout the country that force women to have the baby even in cases of rape and incest, but of course are technically true. I don’t have the stats and I suspect neither does King, but his bizarre defense of using history’s most horrible periods to defend 2019 legislation is most likely rooted in fact. The question that of course no one asked, as the right jumped to defend and the left jumped to excoriate, is why King thinks that in today’s society, when increasing the population is a negative, and raids of raping and pillaging are thankfully no longer commonplace, that he made his statement at all. After all, tons of horrible abuses litter human history and the further back we go, the more gruesome they are. So what everyone not busy defending or attacking should ask is, is King in his right mind? Is this just more gaslighting as distraction from the Republican/Trump playbook, or does King actually think that Viking-era norms should somehow justify the Republican campaign to force women to have the baby of their rapist or molester? Frankly, whether distraction or heartfelt, this level of absurdity is getting out of hand.