Sally Kohn gets schooled after comparing #ChapelHillShooting to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack

Greg P. | 1:46 PM on February 11, 2015

The shooting of three Muslim students yesterday in Chapel Hill, NC is horrific and tragic and awful and just about any other adjective you might think of to describe a triple-murder, but there’s one thing that’s clear: It’s not at all comparable to the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month.

But not according to Sally Kohn:

US media covered shooting *BY* Muslims in FRANCE constantly FOR DAYS! No remotely comp coverage for shooting *OF* Muslims right here @ home.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) February 11, 2015

For real.

Readers quickly schooled Kohn on where she went wrong. First up, on her criticism of the media’s coverage of the event, which is now quite extensive:

@Matthops82 @sallykohn How on earth can she compare DAYS worth of coverage to a story that's barely 10 hours old?

— Holden (@Holden114) February 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/565561250206076929

@Matthops82 The doubling-down in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary is the best part of her dementia.

— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) February 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/javaguysammckee/status/565561025538564096

https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/565562305522720768

It's been less than 24 hours and it has 900k mentions on Twitter. So this is false. @sallykohn

— Ryan B. Leslie (@RyanBLeslie) February 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/ChrisSeay03/status/565575499561598976

Heh. Maybe she needs a time machine to accurately judge the media’s coverage?

And secondly, let’s point out the obvious: there’s no “remotely comp coverage for shooting *OF* Muslims right here @ home” because the two stories aren’t remotely comparable. At all: