Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy swatted away a ridiculous question from Washington Post reporter Meryl Kornfield, who asked if he supported “White Supremacy.” Why did she even ask this? Well, Ramaswamy received the endorsement of former Republican Congressman Steve King.
The WaPo reporter asked Ramaswamy:
“Do you condemn White Nationalism and White supremacy?”
Ramaswamy responded:
“Who are you with? Washington Post…alright, so. Of course I condemn any form of vicious racial discrimination in this country. But I think that the presumption of your question is fundamentally based on a falsehood that that really is the main form of racial discrimination that you see in this country today. Institutional racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see-- that doesn’t come somehow discriminating against people on the tenets of some White supremacy. Is based on…affirmative action.” Notice how Ramaswamy carefully chooses his words so that he doesn’t get canceled, yet still manages to convey very clearly what we all know to be true, which is this: White Supremacy historically was a horrible thing that should be condemned. But in 2024, the biggest form of discrimination, as has been adjudicated in the Supreme Court recently in Harvard and UNC vs. Students for Fair Admissions, is affirmative action. And affirmative action does not exactly help White people.
In his own career, Steve King also stepped into the “White supremacy” trap– because he minced words a bit in disassociating himself from it. King also criticized George Soros, and the ADL deemed that criticism antisemitic. At that time, the ADL sent a letter to the then House Speaker Paul Ryan asking him to censure King. Soros is Jewish, that’s one thing the ADL has right, though it hardly follows that you’re not allowed to criticize him, given the vast contributions he gives to far left groups and causes.
Steve King’s endorsement of Ramaswamy is in large part due to his opposition to the green agenda and local Iowa issues. Moreover, King might have felt that he was left high and dry by President Trump when he was stripped of his committee assignments and then primaried by his own party. So Steve King did not handle the “white supremacy” question as adroitly as Vivek Ramaswamy. In 2019, King told the New York Times:
“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” What I think King meant was how did the word “White” become a pejorative. Instead, he appeared to be almost endorsing “White supremacy,” and of course that’s not a good look.
So Ramaswamy is pretty hated by the media because he, according to them, has subscribed to “conspiracy theories” such as the “Great Replacement Theory” and the notion that the Jan 6th riot was an inside job. But as to those allegations, Ramaswamy has responded by showing examples from Democrats who trumpet demographic change in the US–is it ok to say it as long as you’re celebrating it? We all know there’s a host of hypocrisy on this issue, and it just so happens that Ramaswamy is good at parrying with the media.
As to the reporter who asked the question, Meryl Kornfield appears to be a standard naive liberal white woman who is impervious to any other set of facts other than the leftist narrative.
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