Does Europe have journalists who accuse world leaders of sleeping with their children? If not you have a point. https://t.co/qtUI3sAojA
— BT (@back_ttys) January 12, 2017
Need a hot take on a cold day? This oughtta fit the bill:
The events of the last few months are just reminder that America was always Europe's bizarre, messy, violent, and uncivilized cousin.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 12, 2017
Apparently when HuffPo contributor and Foreign Policy columnist Julia Ioffe isn’t suggesting an incestuous relationship between Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka, she’s busy cultivating her complete lack of understanding of world history.
@juliaioffe Not a lover of history I see.
— Darren Oestmann (@darrenoestmann) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe you obviously know nothing about European history
— CE Pascal (@exsacerdotal) January 12, 2017
.@juliaioffe Um, pick up a history book.
— dagny (@dukeblu85) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe Dis you take any history courses in college?
— Daniel Schwammenthal (@DSchwammenthal) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe Julia. No.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2017
Fortunately for Julia, there are still plenty of members of the reality-based community, and they’re generously taking some time out of their busy days to set her straight:
In every way imaginable, European history has been more violent and messy than ours https://t.co/pRE8D2N1MR
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) January 12, 2017
That was certainly the case last time we checked …
@juliaioffe You're right, it's amazing how civilized and non violent the Europeans were in the 1930s and 40s.
— Darren List (@DarrenList) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe OMG, you are so right! pic.twitter.com/cBkDtDpLEj
— Saving Ferris (@StreetDoc_67) January 12, 2017
If only our last election could have been as civilized as the Germanic Wars and the June Rebellion. https://t.co/9XpDlLaH2P
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe have you heard of WW1 & WW2?
— Brett Duffey (@globalutionary) January 12, 2017
Yes, yes. America is quite unlike its noble and civilized cousins Holocaust and World War. pic.twitter.com/wemhy4iuF2
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe There are not words in the English language that can properly describe the vapidity of this statement. WWI? WWII? Holocaust?
— (((RememberScalia))) (@Mattfobrien) January 12, 2017
@juliaioffe I seem to remember two world wars and a genocide in the last 100 years and all started in civil, peaceful Europe.
— Donald Kerabatsos (@Papakila) January 12, 2017
A contentious political election followed by peaceful transition of power is the fucking worst. We need the genocides & world wars of Europe https://t.co/exLQ8H85to
— Drew (@FigDrewton) January 12, 2017
Here’s a more comprehensive list for Julia if she’s got a few minutes:
https://t.co/uMNFd725bE https://t.co/Bfb0OFe4fr
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) January 12, 2017
Still not convinced, Julia?
Has she seen Europe lately? https://t.co/ruK0S6bM1c
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 12, 2017
What’s the twentieth century? https://t.co/3uE3arIUsk
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 12, 2017
…who has saved Europe's ass countless times. https://t.co/0nxU52Ycri
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 12, 2017
That's why they had to rescue us from 2 world wars…oh, wait… https://t.co/N68Z4sK9ox
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) January 12, 2017
Nice try. Europe is America’s dying uncle who wears Tevas in the shower and can’t stop shitting himself https://t.co/3MiLiuTqvF
— Biff Diddle (@BiffDiddle) January 12, 2017
Ha!
OK, hold up: Julia wants to clarify her earlier remarks:
Allow me to clarify: Until WWII, many European travel accounts portrayed the US that way. Many Europeans still often see us that way.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 12, 2017
Yeah … no.
.@juliaioffe Except that's not even remotely close to what you said — a "reminder that America was always…"
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 12, 2017
Not even remotely.
A word of advice, Julia:
@juliaioffe Flaunting ignorance is no virtue, madam.
— Dr Hugo Hackenbush (@MangyLover) January 12, 2017
If you insist on forgetting history, dear, at least try not to forget that.
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