Vice President J.D. Vance raised eyebrows when he told the Turning Point USA Festival conference in Phoenix that white Americans no longer “have to apologize for their racial behavior.”
“In the United States of America, you no longer have to apologize for being white,” Vance told the crowd at a conservative conference on Sunday. “We will not persecute you because you are male, straight, gay or any other identity. Our only requirement is that you become a great American patriot.”
Vance’s opponents slammed the remarks, accusing the vice president of being “hateful” and fabricating an apparent slight.
Josh Cowen, a former Democratic congressional candidate from Michigan, said the vice president’s comments were “one of the most cowardly, pathetic, whiny, dangerous, hateful, weak and ridiculous statements in modern politics.”
“J.D. Vance knows full well that he has never been denied or shamed for being white. He has done so to turn resentment into dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction into action,” Cowan wrote on Twitter.
Mario Pawlowski, who has nearly 100,000 followers on X, dismissed Vance’s remarks as nonsense.
“What the hell is this insecure little puppet doing?” Pavlovsky tweeted. “I’m whiter than most MAGAs, and it never even occurred to me that I had to apologize for being white.”
Others scoffed at Vance’s comments.
Jamie Bonkiewicz tweeted: “The only time I’ve ever felt the need to apologize for being white was after listening to J.D. Vance’s speech.”
“Thanks to J.D. Vance, I don’t have to apologize for being white today,” Ron Filipkowski, an anti-Trump influencer at the media organization MediasTouch, wrote on Twitter. “It’s a huge relief.”
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