(Headline USA) Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the New York Times’s ahistorical “1619 Project,” claimed this week that Europe is not actually a continent and suggested that people who care about the conflict in Ukraine are racist.
“What if I told you Europe is not a continent by definition, but a geopolitical fiction to separate it from Asia,” she said, adding that “alarm” about a “First World nation being invaded” is really just a “dog whistle” for racism.
What if I told you Europe is not a continent by defintion, but a geopolitical fiction to separate it from Asia and so the alarm about a European, or civilized, or First World nation being invaded is a dog whistle to tell us we should care because they are like us.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 27, 2022
She added that people should care about Ukraine, “but not because it is European, or the people appear white.”
Same energy. https://t.co/XfOfhA2DIb
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) February 27, 2022
Several critics pointed out that the literal definition of “continent” includes Europe as a “continuous expanse of land.” However, Hannah-Jones refused to back down, arguing that Europe should really be considered “either Asia or Eurasia.”
Others argued that Hannah-Jones’s new geographical standards are really just another way for her to make everything about race:
Race-obsessed, anti-white lady has a racially obsessed, anti-white take. Not a surprise.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) February 28, 2022
I have a drum. One drum. I like to bang on my drum. I like to bang on my drum really loud so people notice me. Just the one drum. But I bang it and bang it and bang it. Oh, someone’s paying attention to something else? BANG BANG. Still here. With my drum. See? BANG DRUM.
— Benedick wants the ride *and* the ammunition (@BenedickUSA) February 28, 2022
