A black columnist in the New York Times is being roundly ridiculed for her woke take on being offended by white people browsing through her lawn library of free books.
After building a small, freestanding library on her lawn where neighbors could take books or leave books, journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan said she was shocked to discover one day that white people were actually browsing through the library, according to an account by Fox News.
This is one of the most hilarious op-eds I’ve ever read. If you wanted to satirize this mentality, you could not do better.
That it made it to the NYT op-ed page is spectacular. As @SethBarronNYC said: “Imagine the editorial process” that led to “the decision to run this piece.” https://t.co/S4IHiz2rvG
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 6, 2021
“My little library, affirming as it is, is also an illusion; it can’t save our neighborhood,” writes @aubry_erin, explained NYTs’ tweet about the column. “Still, in 2021, it has become increasingly important to maintain and grow Black space, on its own terms.”
Then the horror struck.
“Then one morning, glancing out my front window, I saw a young white couple stopped at the library,” Kaplan wrote in her column. “Instantly, I was flooded with emotions — astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn!”
Kaplan said that she had no specific resentment, it was just their overall “whiteness” that bothered her, according to Fox News.
Previously Kaplan had blasted noted black conservative Larry Elder.
“Elder doesn’t have integrity,” Kaplan explained in Politico as Elder ran for governor in California, “not in the way it matters most. I learned this firsthand many years ago.”
In 1997, Kaplan related, Elder publicly expressed on the radio a dislike of an essay Kaplan had written about her butt.
“How dare he? He didn’t even know me,” Kaplan complained about Elders comments about her butt essay, which criticism was about her essay not her butt.
But Elder’s criticism was nothing compared to the scorn heaped on Kaplan over her NYT missive about keeping white people away from her lawn library.
“This is one of the most hilarious op-eds I’ve ever read. If you wanted to satirize this mentality, you could not do better,” tweeted Glenn Greenwald about wokesters’ wrong-way navel gazing. “That it made it to the NYT op-ed page is spectacular. As @SethBarronNYC said: ‘Imagine the editorial process” that led to ‘the decision to run this piece.’”
