'This nails' it! Slate writer unloads on Trevor Noah: 'The problem is that he’s a giant dope'

Uh-oh. Might this be the beginning of the end for new “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah? Could be.

Check out the reaction to this new piece by Slate features editor Jessica Winters where she calls the comic a “dope” and blasts him for jokes about “fat chicks” and “Thai hookers”:

So the guy replacing Jon Stewart makes dopey fat chicks jokes? We're talking a category confusion here: http://t.co/z1cT4gRNQd

— Meghan O'Rourke (@meghanor) March 31, 2015

"he routinely breaks The Daily Show's covenant of speaking truth to power in favor of speaking truth to fat chicks." http://t.co/JYj0JRckcC

— Jillian Keenan (@JillianKeenan) March 31, 2015

This nails the alarm about those Trevor Noah tweets: could beloved Daily Show turn into series of fat-chick jokes? http://t.co/vOiXjJHGDS

— jodikantor (@jodikantor) March 31, 2015

You win @slate @jessicawinter http://t.co/FJdwXVX4Cz pic.twitter.com/wKXegJ7LuS

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) March 31, 2015

The Daily Show is dead. After reading Trevor Noah's grotesquely misogynistic and even racist tweets, when he… http://t.co/ZoZsTizoI2

— ConsciousFilmmaker® (@DavidCLoya) March 31, 2015

So the @Trevornoah backlash has already started. Good @winterjessica piece his humour or lack of it? http://t.co/U4vOndBHup via @Slate.

— E C Forde (@ECForde) March 31, 2015

https://twitter.com/DuellLauderdale/status/582947031343321088

"Maybe Jon Stewart just wanted to blow the building up as he strolled away with his shades on." http://t.co/U1lnr1L6Ei

— Naureen Khan (@naureeninnyc) March 31, 2015

.@winterjessica, astute and wise on the meaning of Trevor Noah's Twitter feed: http://t.co/vZuSA5ng01

— June Thomas (@junethomas) March 31, 2015

&#039;This nails&#039; it! Slate writer unloads on Trevor Noah: &#039;The problem is that he’s a giant dope&#039;

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'This nails' it! Slate writer unloads on Trevor Noah: 'The problem is that he’s a giant dope'