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Former ESPN host Jemele Hill unleashed a wave of heated backlash after an ignorant comment claiming that America is as bad as Nazi Germany.
The contributing writer for The Atlantic came under fire for her distorted version of history, getting slammed on social media from all sides in outraged criticism after she commented on a piece by Isabel Wilkerson called “America’s Enduring Caste System” which was published by The New York Times last month.
Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” was chosen by Oprah Winfrey this month as her latest book club pick. The author contends that American history and the treatment of blacks is an example of the caste system that existed in other countries such as Nazi Germany.
“Been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, ‘Caste,’ and if you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are,” Hill tweeted Sunday.
“Can’t encourage you enough to read this masterpiece,” she added.
Been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, “Caste,” and if you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are. Can’t encourage you enough to read this masterpiece.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) August 23, 2020
Apparently Hill forgot America’s role in bringing down Nazi Germany and ending its atrocities during World War II. She was instantly given a history lesson on social media where actor James Woods blasted her as “a raging, ignorant fool.”
The children small enough to be thrown into the ovens at Mauthausen were incinerated alive to save the disruption they might cause being herded into the gas chamber. You’re a raging, ignorant fool. https://t.co/4t2VrzZLo7
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 24, 2020
“Read a book,” former Acting Director of National Intelligence and Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell tweeted. “The Nazis murdered 6.5 million Jews.”
“Imagine living in this kind of delusional fantasyland,” David Hookstead of The Daily Caller wrote.
“As someone whose family lived (and some not) through both Nazi and Communist regimes this is absolutely disgusting and @jemelehill, if you spent one month in a real authoritarian state you would come crying back here to kiss the ground you walked on in the USA,” Inez Stepman of the Independent Women’s Forum tweeted.
“REMINDER for @jemelehill about just a FEW of the differences between AMERICA and NAZI GERMANY!” former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted along with a chart.
REMINDER for @jemelehill about just a FEW of the differences between AMERICA and NAZI GERMANY! pic.twitter.com/O1dIo6VXXh
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) August 24, 2020
Hill, who lost her gig as an ESPN host after calling President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter in 2017, did not apologize for her controversial tweet on Sunday, but appeared to just double down, as seen in her response to Arc Digital Editor-in-Chief Berny Belvedere.
What would you call it when a country that murdered millions of Jews learned their systems of genocide by watching America, and studying our history of racialized slavery, and great knack for racial terrorism?
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) August 24, 2020
She also claimed that she was talking about America’s past.
Nowhere in my tweet did I say the current state of America is like Nazi Germany. I was referring specifically to our racial history. The parallels have been pointed out by plenty of historians, not just Isabel Wilkerson. You tell me to grow up. I say, you need to read more.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) August 24, 2020
But Twitter users continued to call her out.
Every week Jemele Hill gets dumber. https://t.co/YTqqw2FA1F
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) August 23, 2020
jemele hill can’t apologize so she’s just gonna double down. gonna be dope
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) August 23, 2020
✍🏼uh✍🏼oh✍🏼Jemele✍🏼 pic.twitter.com/eRjSfrZ0Fy
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) August 23, 2020
By the way, Jemele makes a living insulting the country and the president. If we were under Nazi rule, you couldn’t make a living doing that. Nor could you continue living while doing that.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 24, 2020
Jemele, “parallels” as you say now and “as bad” as you said in your original tweet are two different conclusions, for starters.
Second, the notion that such comparisons serve anything of value is ludicrous, so why do it when you know you’re distorting the truths of both?
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) August 24, 2020
Yea, I can barely tell the difference. pic.twitter.com/6pmDvrYWno
— Chuck (@justChuck_it) August 24, 2020
.@jemelehill is very high IQ — Said no one ever.
but this is NEXT level dumb. She should def take a break from Twitter. https://t.co/QcKEbBIVad
— Stephanie Hamill (@STEPHMHAMILL) August 23, 2020
Every day Jemele Hill tweets some dumb shit that I don’t think she can top, and every day she proves me wrong! Truly impressive.
— Olivia Rondeau (@rondeaulivia) August 24, 2020
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