Rep. Peter King Uses Racial Slur Once, and Then Again While Refusing to Apologize for It

Could this have been an instance of an old man not knowing that using racial slurs was now considered helpful? No! He is well-aware, but he won’t apologize.

“I stand by the merits of what I said,” he told The Hill in an interview. “I was quoting the guy at the end of the bar who needlessly offends, who makes snaps [sic] decisions and doesn’t care, who suddenly says, ‘The hell with them, the Japs and the Koreans.”

“I was using it to make a point, and I would make it again,” he continued. “If someone wants to say, ‘The mick at the end of the bar,’ I wouldn’t be offended by it.”

A quick reminder for Rep. King—you are not writing historical fiction; you don’t have to be true to what the characters would say.

In a statement to The Hill, chairperson of the Congressional Asian Caucus Rep. Judy Chu said, “Mr. King knows his words have an impact. Using the J word is disgusting and harkens back to a shameful time in our history when violence, xenophobia, and the internment of Japanese Americans were everyday phenomena.”