Hillary Clinton Says White, Christian Men Have Done “Damage” to America
Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is facing backlash for blaming “damage” done to America by white Christian men in the midst of surging political violence targeting conservatives and Christians. In an MSNBC interview last week, Clinton opined, “The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by — you know, let’s say it — white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.” She added, “Some people are actually scared about what’s going on in our country.”
Clinton’s comments come just weeks after a transgender-identified shooter killed two Catholic schoolchildren in Minnesota, conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a college campus event, and a sniper opened fire on a federal immigration detention facility. Conservatives were quick to react. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) quipped in an X post, “Doesn’t sound very egalitarian.” One X user commented, “Hillary Clinton gets on tv and reminds us every time of how lucky we are that she lost in 2016.” Another posted, “Two weeks after Charlie Kirk was murdered, Hillary Clinton is on stage saying white Christian men are doing massive damage to the world. Why is it acceptable for elites to demonize an entire group by race and faith and still pretend it is progress?”
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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins responded to Clinton’s comments in a Newsmax interview Tuesday. “A few years back, it was the ‘deplorables.’ Now she’s focusing in on white men. But it’s not just white men, it’s all men. What stands in the way of the Left are men of conviction with courage,” Perkins stated. He said that Christian men are “in the way of the agenda of the Left.” Perkins explained, “In order for them to gain power, they have to weaken manhood and masculinity, because that then fractures the family, and it creates chaos in communities that gives them leverage for power in bigger government.” He added, “That’s why they cannot stand men of conviction with courage and masculinity. Men of conviction and courage have been in their crosshairs.”
“We actually see the results of that in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Perkins noted. “You see many millions of Americans paying respect to him because there’s a longing for men of conviction who will speak up. And of course, you see the Left responding with this type of rhetoric of saying, ‘We need to get along,’ but at the same time, in the same breath, demonizing men who will stand up.”
Perkins also noted that it isn’t just establishment Democrats like Clinton fueling the rhetoric of political violence in the U.S. Left-wing “think tanks” and policy institutions also play a role. “There’s a pattern here on the Left, and there’s an organization that stands right in the center of it. It’s the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Perkins said. He pointed out that a gunman attacked FRC’s Washington, D.C. headquarters in 2012 after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) placed FRC on its “hate map.” Likewise, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Kirk were both shot after being labeled “hate” figures by the SPLC. Notably, Kirk died of his gunshot wound on September 10. “We have some crazy people out there, as we’re seeing with these acts of violence. And all they need is someone to affirm their hatred. And that’s what the Southern Poverty Law Center has been doing,” the FRC president asserted.
“They also are working with corporate America. Corporate America has blood on its hands,” Perkins insisted. Companies like Apple and Amazon and financial institutions like JPMorganChase “have been a part of giving money to the Southern Poverty Law Center and using the Southern Poverty Law Center as an index to debunk conservatives,” Perkins said, “to refuse to allow them to participate in certain programs, like Amazon Smile program, and they’ve been refused services based upon the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
He called on President Donald Trump and his administration to include self-described anti-hate organizations like the SPLC in their “all-of-government investigation into Antifa.” Perkins explained, “You cannot look at this without looking at the Southern Poverty Law Center and their role in fomenting hatred and violence in this country against conservatives.”
The SPLC still lists mainstream conservative and Christian organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom, the Center for Immigration Studies, FRC, Focus on the Family, Liberty Counsel, and Moms Defending Liberty as extremist “hate groups,” alongside organizations like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan. The day before Kirk’s assassination, the SPLC also published a piece attacking TPUSA and Kirk for “continu[ing] the hard right’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)” and “impl[ying] violence was necessary.”
However, a similar self-described anti-hate organization, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), recently scrubbed its list of hate groups, which included TPUSA, in the wake of Kirk’s murder. The ADL dismantled its entire “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” on Tuesday. “At ADL, we always are looking for how we can and should do things better. That’s why we are moving to retire the Glossary effectively immediately,” the group announced in a social media post. “With over 1,000 entries written over many years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years. At the same time, an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated. We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.”
However, the ADL’s page dedicated to TPUSA under the Center on Extremism is still active on the organization’s website, listing the conservative activist network as an “Extremism, Hate, or Terrorism” group. While the ADL’s TPUSA page clearly condemns the assassination of Kirk and notes that he frequently supported Israel, denounced right-wing violence, and distanced himself from groups like the “Groypers,” the ADL does still warn that TPUSA promotes “Christian nationalism: the idea that Christians should dominate the government and other areas of life in the US,” “some conspiracy theories related to topics such as election fraud and COVID-19,” and “extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists.” The ADL also says that TPUSA’s leaders and speakers “have a history of bigoted statements about the [b]lack community, the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender people, and other minority groups.”
LifeNews Note: S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.
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