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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton faces backlash after claiming that white men of a "certain religion" were partly responsible for spreading "evil" in the United States during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe last week.
“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,” Clinton said. “We were on the path to that … We were on the right trajectory.”
The comments caught the ire of several conservatives on social media, specifically given the timing after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk just weeks prior.
“Two weeks after Charlie Kirk is assassinated, Hillary Clinton reminds everyone that white Christian men are dangerous and doing damage to America. These people have no intention of turning down the temperature. They know they’re encouraging what happened,” one person wrote on their X account.
“Hillary Clinton makes yet another case for violence against white Christian men — the constant drumbeat against huge segments of the population is dehumanizing and dangerous. Her focus on Christianity is chilling — especially given the fact that she can’t bring herself to even name the religion,” another user posted.
Clinton also had suggested that some conservatives wanted to "turn the clock back" on equality during the interview.
“Some people are actually scared about what’s going on in our country,” she said. “The idea of we the people, that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history, slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks.”