Iowa congressman Steve King has a long history of spouting racist nonsense. This is a man who proudly displayed a confederate flag on his desk, despite Iowa being, you know, a Union state. But you might also remember him from the shameful disaster that was the infamous no "subgroup of people" has contributed more to civilization than white people thing, which he said on national television:

"This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”

Well, this weekend he was up to his old tricks again. Only this time, the medium is Twitter:

Now, of course, this is not just racist. It's also anti-American. We are a nation of immigrants. A nation of "somebody else's babies." But it's not just anti-American, it's also patently and disgustingly false. There's nothing that this country loves, ESPECIALLY REPUBLICANS, more than our best and brightest pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. I mean, we hear that expression so much, you'd think that bootstraps were a vital part of America.

Anyway, new findings show that the best and brightest, the ones who are the best with bootstraps, are actually the children of immigrants. This comes via new findings from the National Foundation for American Policy.

An impressive 83 percent (33 of 40) of the finalists of the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, the leading science competition for U.S. high school students, were the children of immigrants. Moreover, 75 percent – 30 out of 40 – of the finalists had parents who worked in America on H-1B visas. That compares to 7 children who had both parents born in the United States. The science competition has been called the “Junior Nobel Prize.” These outstanding children of immigrants would never have been in America if their parents had not been allowed into the U.S.

This just goes to show that racism is not only immoral and un-American, it's also very stupid.

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