Bitches be crazy
Jul 05, 2021
Harsha Walia, and her supporters, are unfamiliar with what words mean:
In a June 30 tweet responding to a news article about a pair of Catholic churches burning down, Walia wrote “burn it all down.”
The tweet set off a firestorm on social media, both from people who described the message as inflammatory and stoking hate, and others who defended the tweet, saying people have no right to police Indigenous people’s grief and rage.
The follow up is gold:
“It’s totally ridiculous to suggest I am actively calling for arson,” one tweet reads. “And yes, I do think deadly genocidal colonialism locally and globally needs to collapse,” reads another.
We knew that math is hard. Apparently, so is logic. A dedicated psycho adds:
Ps. Burn it all down. Doesn’t literally mean, burn it down.
— Naomi Sayers, Indigenous Female Elite (@kwetoday) July 4, 2021
But just in case, I can also defend, both civil and criminal.
If a White guy wrote "burn it all down" upon the news of a mosque on fire, then he would already be in jail under Canada's hate speech laws. All Walia will face is a few head shakes.
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