Yesterday, tweeter @jonslater37 posted an absolutely wonderful video featuring a little girl who lights up with unadulterated joy when she sees her family in the audience. Try watching this without lighting up with joy yourself:
https://twitter.com/jonslater37/status/1600442263611523072
It’s impossible, right? It’s impossible to see that little girl and not feel your heart just bursting with happiness.
Unless, of course, you’re a joyless scold who manages to find the racism and hatred inherent in a little girl’s display of pure love for her family. Erica Ifill is one of those people. A self-described “economist, journalist, & anti-racism expert,” Ifill took one look at that little girl and was overcome with feelings of disgust. Disgust for the patriarchy. Disgust for white Anglo culture. Disgust for … a sweet little girl:
This is the joy white people gaslight out of their children from young. I’ve been noticing the lack of joy in white Anglo culture and how white supremacy robs them of it and robs women of the agency of joy. I am finally understanding that joy is a revolutionary state of being https://t.co/Zbi6svx06Y
— Erica Ifill (@wickdchiq) December 7, 2022
In other words, white supremacy robs white people of joy and more particularly patriarchy robs white women of the agency of joy.
I’m seeing it in real time in Vancouver. Everyone is so scared of losing the little they have they have no room for joy—they have no room to thrive— Erica Ifill (@wickdchiq) December 7, 2022
What? No, seriously … what?!
I saw joy when commemorating #Dec6 in solidarity with Indigenous women. There was actual joy, which opens the door to active and revolutionary love. And that’s where the revolution is—in acts of love. I saw it in front of me and as a Black woman I immediately recognized it
— Erica Ifill (@wickdchiq) December 7, 2022
JOY 🤩 pic.twitter.com/8Rl4jE5WXR
— Erica Ifill (@wickdchiq) December 7, 2022
Are we sure that’s a picture of joy? And not a picture of Erica as the last shred of her soul is leaving her body?
What kind of sick and twisted and demented person turns a little girl’s love into an opportunity to trash white people? The smile on that girl’s face is as genuine as anything you’ll ever see out there, yet Erica’s suggesting that the girl is a victim of gaslighting by the white supremacist patriarchy.
Erica wouldn’t know joy if it slapped her in her nasty, bigoted, stupid face.
It's a little girl waving to her parents
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) December 8, 2022
For eff’s sake, Erica.
Impressive how you can speak to the white experience, having never been a white child nor mother to one 😏
— Texas Jefe (@jefe_is_back) December 8, 2022
You seem angry and unhappy and, truthfully, worryingly racist. Is there anything I can do to help? Would having you over to laugh and joke with my 2 white children brighten your day? I'm willing to do that.
— Chelsea Hillier (@ChelseaHillier8) December 7, 2022
That’s a very generous offer, but unfortunately, it seems pretty obvious that at this point, Erica is beyond help.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1600838311425150976
Erica should definitely take one of the top prizes.
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