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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTomi Lahren Quickly Deletes Racist Tweet Toward Elizabeth Warren.
Moments ago Fox Nation Host Tomi Lahren made what can best be described as a racially charged tweet attacking 2020 Democrat Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren. The tweet has since been deleted.
At approximately 3:15pm EST Tomi Lahren, known for her conservative views online and on Fox Nation, tweeted out an image taken from an Instagram video that Elizabeth Warren took on New Years Day from her home. In the background, there are various decorations and knickknacks. In Lahrens image of Warren, she has one of these knickknacks circled. Lahren then posted alongside it an image of a figurine of what appears to be an African American eating a watermelon.
In what appears to be an attempt to imply racism on the part of Elizabeth Warren, Lahren seems to have realized that her possible attempt at political humor may not be taken well by even her own followers.
The figurine behind Warren in the video is clearly not the racially-sensitive image that Lahren suggested. We reached out to Fox Nation and Tomi Lahren about the incident but have yet to hear back.
https://hillreporter.com/tomi-lahren-quickly-deletes-racist-tweet-toward-elizabeth-warren-20265
torius
(1,652 posts)Unless she has one of those racist figurines herself? She probably has a large collection.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)smarter than 2016 .
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)no more kitchen chats please. Just, don't do it anymore.
MAYBE however, she's setting up somebody? Not sure how or why, but, MAYBE she's just a little quicker and wily'er than we even have seen yet. She was a law professor at HARVARD. Thinking she just did this on a lark may be folly. Just speculation. MERE speculation.
Bayard
(22,038 posts)A small lidded pot with handles to me.
Vinca
(50,255 posts)In any case, "Black Americana" is a bona fide collectible and having it doesn't make you a racist, it makes you a person who collectibles historical artifacts.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)What a dumbass.
ooky
(8,921 posts)and Trump MAGAt. She is a cheerleader for the Redhats and has a habit of making incredibly dumb remarks, like the subject tweet she tried to take back.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Nothing wrong with who she associated with, but for several years her best/best friend has been a Black male writer that lives in NYC. They were besties even when she lived in Vegas. The tall blonde woman (with the loud mouth) has a longtime boyfriend who is Black and used to be a tv star. They may be racists, but that would be some mixed up racism, I think that they are financial and popularity opportunists that don't care about the collateral damage they cause.
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)isn't a reliable metric.
Darryl Roof had at least one black friend who insisted even after his crimes that he "was not a racist."
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That throws a whole dimension of weirdness into it, not that they are maybe intimate with someone that they care about, but that they then turn around and blindly attach righteous causes that benefit that person's racial or ethnic group. I guess that when a person is an asshole, the person can still be an asshole and care about someone close to them.
jcgoldie
(11,627 posts)terrible