Republican U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama confronted backlash after he refused to agree that white nationalists are racist.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., condemned the conservative Alabama lawmaker in a tweet that learn, “Senator Tuberville’s incapacity to sentence white nationalists is disappointing and utterly unacceptable.”
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., additionally slammed his Republican colleague on the Senate ground and stated, “The Senator from Alabama is mistaken, mistaken, mistaken.”
“The definition of white nationalism just isn’t a matter of opinion,” he added.
Schumer continued: “White nationalism – the ideology that one race is inherently superior to others, that folks of colour needs to be segregated, subjected, and relegated to second-class citizenship – is racist all the way down to its rotten core.”
The backlash comes after Tuberville doubled down on his obvious protection of white nationalists after beforehand protesting makes an attempt by the Division of Protection to root out servicemen who foster white nationalist ideology from the U.S. army.
On the primary episode of CNN’s “The Supply” with host Kaitlan Collins on Monday night time, the senator instructed Collins that he believes white nationalists can enlist within the army so long as they aren’t racist.
Collins tried to teach Sen. Tuberville that the very definition of a white nationalist is somebody who’s racist. “A white nationalist is somebody who agrees that the white race is superior to different races,” she defined.
“Properly, that’s some folks’s opinion,” rebutted Tuberville earlier than Collins interrupted and stated, “That’s not an opinion.”
Tuberville defined that he believes a white nationalist is “an American.” He added, “Now, if that white nationalist is a racist, I’m completely towards something that they need to do as a result of I’m 110% towards racism.”
The senator appeared to recommend that “white nationalist” was some type of slur utilized by Democrats, telling Collins, “I’m completely towards id politics, and I believe it’s ruining this nation.”
“I believe the Democrats must be ashamed for a way they’re doing this as a result of it’s dividing this nation, and it’s making this nation weaker,” he continued.
After listening to Tuberville’s clarification, Collins instructed Tuberville, “That’s not id politics. You stated a white nationalist is an American, however a white nationalist is somebody who believes horrific issues.”
She added, “You don’t actually assume that that’s somebody who needs to be serving the army?”
The senator defined that so long as somebody who’s a white nationalist just isn’t racist, they need to be capable to serve within the army.
TheGrio reached out to Senator Tuberville for remark however did obtain remark by the point of publication.
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