On Christmas day, Drexel University associate professor of politics George Ciccariello-Maher, went for the open-mic night material and decided to tweet the following (now made private on Twitter):
"All I want for Christmas is white genocide."
If this sounds similar to that time you posted your negative holiday views about fruitcake on Facebook, it's exactly like that, except deadlier and a lot more problematic for millions of racists.
Conservative news sites like Breitbart lathered up the masses, worried that an intellectual was encouraging the death of white society.
Ciccariello-Maher released a statement saying that his tweet was satirical (zing!), even though his follow-up tweet on Sunday also said:
"To clarify: when the whites were massacre [sic] during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed."
This is the worst Saturday Night Live sketch ever,
Admittedly, I'm not certain the professor understands how satire works, and--if anything--the comedic stylings of Ciccariello-Maher are
White supremacists and their poorly run websites irrationally fear an American "white genocide" that will topple them from the socio-economic power position in the United States. Meanwhile, academics fear that freedom of speech will be smothered by a notable American university as a means to kill bad press.
In the end, what will really happen from all of this?
Nothing.
It'll blow over. News will cycle. Drexel University will sweat it out. Ciccariello-Maher will remain hidden on Twitter. White supremacists will spread hate. And everything old is new again is old again is new.
Zing!
Because satire is hard.
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