On Wednesday, Ramaswamy was in Iowa when a reporter said to him that "[he] didn't say that [he] condemned white supremacy." This is something media has asked candidates in the past--and they don't care if you condemn it, as we saw when former President Donald Trump utterly condemned it. They'll still twist what was said. But Vivek wasn't having any of it, and his response is going viral. It's not hard to see why. This was something else. //

I'm not gonna recite some catechism for you. I'm against vicious racial discrimination in this country, so I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism which actually fits the test. I'm not going to bend the knee to your religion. I'm not asking you to bend the knee to mine. I'm not going to bend the knee to yours. Do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I gonna play your silly game of gotcha? No, I'm not. //

The reality is that I condemn vicious racial discrimination in this country but the kind of vicious and systematic racism that we see today is discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction.

You wanna know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race. Stop discriminating on the basis of race. Do that and we're going to move this country forward. //

Vivek himself said, "This is the stupidest question I’ve gotten yet from the media.And that says a lot."