Former Congressman Steve King, known for being a "just asking questions" sort of person to many on topics like white supremacy and abortion in the instance of rape or incest, is apparently set on continuing to make wild posts in his post-Congressional career.
Yesterday, he left Twitter gobsmacked after tweeting a story that seemed to imply he would rather have been a "slave" than "aborted."
I spent Juneteenth all day in the hot sun hoeing and pulling weeds and thinking about what it would have been like to have been a slave. At the end of the day, I thought about what it would be like to be an aborted baby. I got to see the sunrise and the sunset.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 21, 2022
King's tweet tells a tale about how he spent Juneteenth doing some yard work, which appeared to make him ponder what life would have been like as a slave. Then he thought about what it would be like to "be an aborted baby," appearing to conclude that seeing the sunrise and sunset is preferable to never having been born.
Many felt King's line of reasoning was flawed for some fairly obvious reasons, such as it being quite impossible to imagine what it would be like to be an aborted fetus, and others were not fans of the implied message of "while slaves had it bad, at least they got to see the sun."
Needless to say, people were blown away by the sentiment implied in King's hot take, and it was thoroughly roasted and ratioed on Twitter over the following days.
I always imagined slavery must have been like if you were a white guy and you spent a day landscaping because you felt like it. https://t.co/ricD2weIUk
— Emergency Pants (@zwnyc) June 22, 2022
If there’s a Hall Of Fame for stupidity, Steve King is First Ballot material. https://t.co/fXDiJE6nWb
— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) June 22, 2022
I too think about abortion when I’ve been hoeing all day. https://t.co/vZpev86M5A
— Amy Miller (@amymiller) June 21, 2022
Though King is no longer in Congress, it seems he has little interest in rehabilitating his weird and "possibly racist" image, as some of his critics have called him.
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