Every once in a while, you come across a take that’s so piping-hot, even days later, you still need layers of oven mitts just to get anywhere near it. This is one of those times.
Let’s set the stage …
Last week, writer Wesley Yang shared a report from the Washington Free Beacon about the media’s rather curious habit of leaving out the race of murderers — if those murderers happen to be, well, not white. Even when those murderers are very explicit about their racist motivations.
Yes, the data confirms the glaringly obvious https://t.co/1s3FNZiqvr
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 14, 2022
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 14, 2022
Well, that set Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “That’s Racist!” senses all a-tingle:
What is the source of this data?
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 14, 2022
https://t.co/1s3FNZ0P6R pic.twitter.com/ZuAjn7kGuV
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 14, 2022
Right. So not scientific. Not comprehensive. Not taking into account context: whether crime was based on race or not. This isn’t “data” but it does reveal how race matters a great deal to you all if it serves anti-Blackness.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 14, 2022
No, it documents an unmistakable pattern that anyone who follows the news can see and the imposition of a pernicious double standard in reporting that intensified after 2020.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 14, 2022
And then, this happened:
So you have no standards for research whatsoever as long as it affirms your world view? Got it.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 14, 2022
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And then, we all died. RIP us.
Satire is dead. https://t.co/ESKn5fjlDq
— David Pecchia (@dpecchia) April 14, 2022
OK, satire is dead, too. We’re dead and satire is dead.
There’s more to the conversation, of course (in which Yang cleans Hannah-Jones’ clock). But here’s the next tweet, just as a taste:
Like your claim media was downplaying Black on Asian hate crimes despite actual data to the contrary. At least you’re being explicit with your anti-Blackness. https://t.co/nw9Qf9CHPj
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 14, 2022
“At least you’re being explicit with your anti-Blackness.”
At least Nikole Hannah-Jones is being explicit with her anti-intelligence. And anti-self-awareness. Holy hell, it’s like she’s lived with herself all her life and never really gotten to know herself.
I legitimately laughed. pic.twitter.com/7GV7id81uj
— AG🌻 (@AGHamilton29) April 14, 2022
There are no mirrors in Nikole’s house, apparently
— Jay (@OneFineJay) April 14, 2022
“So you have no standards for research whatsoever as long as it affirms your world view.” That right there is Nikole Hannah-Jones in a nutshell.
Yes, she absolutely is this devoid of self-awareness. https://t.co/IGroEe7snk
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) April 14, 2022
When the lack of self-awareness is cranked to 11 https://t.co/zrGR2uUVuF
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) April 14, 2022
Absolutely no self awareness whatsoever… none. Its remarkable https://t.co/ZJaFBmuw3A
— Reality Bites (@Right2BeReal) April 15, 2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones won a got-dang Pulitzer Prize for having no standards for research whatsoever as long as it affirmed her world view.
fun fact: "no standards for research whatsoever as long as it affirms your world view" is the first line of the 1619 Project's declarations of principles. pic.twitter.com/vjMT8Rst6r
— Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 14, 2022
This is one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever seen.
This tweet belongs in a museum https://t.co/3CdFi2VGHU
— William Quantrill (@RooftopOzarkian) April 14, 2022
Hang it right next to this one:
#itGetsBetter https://t.co/YLIFlvfyKd
— jeremysenderowicz (@senderowiczj) April 14, 2022
We never thought Nikole Hannah-Jones was capable of bringing joy into our lives, but we stand corrected.
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