It's important to start there — with Congressman King saying the greatest aspects of world civilization were all birthed and developed by white Europeans — because that is a quintessential white supremacist trope. Of course they weren't. The statement is so outrageously ahistorical and ludicrous that I am somewhat embarrassed to even acknowledge it. Of course all of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas birthed and developed many of the most essential aspects of world civilization. That a sitting United States congressman either doesn't know this, or does and is willing to openly lie about it, is frightening. This man is a lawmaker and it's now unmistakably clear that he has a fundamentally white-supremacist worldview.