President Trump’s Thursday airstrike on a Syrian airfield is offensive to Native Americans, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery tweeted over the weekend.
Jeffery wrote the fact “that the missiles are callled [sic] tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans…”
That the missiles are callled tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) April 8, 2017
… which in hindsight, probably wasn’t the smartest thing to say.
@ClaraJeffery The war tomahawk was actually a British invention.
— Sean Gallagher (@thepacketrat) April 8, 2017
@thepacketrat @ClaraJeffery A load of liberal revisionist bison dung, as is myth that Native Americans were peaceful people until Colonialism.https://t.co/XxocxYgiqF
— Michael Liu (@spyguy8080) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery I think generally they have actual things to be enraged about
— Wholesome Bare (@WallaBare) April 9, 2017
@ClaraJeffery I don’t think many Native Americans are snowflakes.
— jshay9178 (@jshay9178) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Oh my gawd I thought this was a joke… then i saw your Twitter page and realized you are actually serious. Seek help.
— magan (@megdogwuff) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery I asked Elizabeth Warren. She said “how”
— James O’Neil (@Jimoneil359) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery You don’t actually know any, do you?
— Mike Cutler (@BetrCutlerLoose) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Its an honor. #MAGA
— Palermo Smith (@PaloSmith) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery pic.twitter.com/Ht7jF75Wsi
— $37 and a Jap Guitar (@R0cky_T0p) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery This Tweet is exactly why Trump won.
— 82ndVet (@82ndVet) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Did you talk to ANY Native Americans before this tweet? Second question, do you know ANY Native Americans?
— Wingo is a Jedi name (@mikepinkshoes) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Yes — just like my grandpa Tom was enraged by the Tommy guns used during prohibition.
— Steak Twittee (@Knowk_Omment) April 9, 2017
@ClaraJeffery pic.twitter.com/J7UySk8Bmw
— Deebs (@shumad1) April 9, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Oh, look, Bimbo Soft White Bread. You must be losing your mind right about now… pic.twitter.com/1BB2Q5Mppx
— MarcG (@MarcosGarciaPMP) April 8, 2017
@ClaraJeffery The “tomahawk missile” will now be known as “”Gender neutral Unicorn horns”
— House King (@AndrewKing06) April 9, 2017
@ClaraJeffery that YET another liberal white woman feels she can appropriate voices of Native Americans and speak for them enrages me. POC speak our own
— IPledgeAllegiance (@muchmoresalt) April 9, 2017
@ClaraJeffery Naming a missile after a Native American war weapon? NOT OK…Claiming to be Native American? GREAT! MAKE HER A SENATOR! #liberallogic pic.twitter.com/uGyASdlg2e
— MarcG (@MarcosGarciaPMP) April 8, 2017
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